Skull Tats

A few weeks ago my wife started to have some issues with the breaks on her car. The total bill for the thing was kinda big so before I threw down the money for it, I talked to a buddy of mine, Ben, who is kinda a wiz with all things automobile. It was going to cost quite a bit less going through him to do the work than the auto shop, but before I paid him I asked him if he'd like to just do a trade for some artwork. He let me know that he had an idea for a tattoo that he'd been wanting for a while, two pirate skulls with the crossbones behind them. In no time flat, the barter system worked out great for the both of us.

This is the final image for the tats. In place of the cross bones, we came up with the the concept of using the tools that he normally uses in his line of work to make the X. Soon, these will be permanently on his chest.

You can go to dirtyinks.com to see a bit of process I went through to make the image.