Maori inspired shoulder tattoo piece

Hi,Here's another shoulder tattoo piece inspired by the Kirituhi / Maori style. This custom tatoo design is for the upper shoulder and top of the shoulderblade.It has nice complex lines and fills:The final design looks like this:Regards, M...

Kirituhi forearm tattoo design

Hi! Here's a forearm tattoo design in Kirituhi style, it's a custom design for a customer from the USA.He wanted an original Maori piece on his left forearm and a Kirituhi design on his other forearm. The size of this tattoo sketch is 25 cm long and approx. 12 cm wide, narrowing down to 6 cm at the wrist. First I started to draw the outline...

maori inspired ribcage tattoo sketch

Hi,After some busy weeks, doing multiple custom tattoo designs, I would like to show you some sketches of my latest works.I created a Kirituhi design for the side of the body, on the ribcage.My client asked me to combine some maori inspired style elements, with the initials of his nephews.I'm not really fond of doing tattoos with lettering,...

Dj tattoo in polynesian style finished

Hi there,I finished the tattoo for the Dutch DJ, incorporating the turtle motive and a stylized turntable.Regards, M...

photo shoulder tattoo 143

Hi,I received a really nice photo from one of my customers. A few months ago he ordered shoulder tattoo 143 from my gallery and here's the finished piece:His tattoo artist extended the design, to make it fit his arm.I'm working on a few custom designs, so I will get back soon with new sketches and finished tattoo designsRegards, M...

shoulder sketch tattoo DJ music

Hi,Yesterday I finished the pencil sketch for a Dutch DJ. I incorporated a stylized turntable at the top of the tattoo in a mixed tribal style.It also shows some turtle elements, spearheads and some koru shapes.Here's the photo of the completed sketch:Kind regards, Mark St...

Polynesian style shoulder tattoo

Hi,At the moment, I'm working on a shoulder tattoo design for a Dutch customer.He wanted a Polynesian style tattoo, with some elements like turtle shells and stars.Additionally he wanted to incorporate some kind of element, representing him being a DJ.So here are the first few pictures:I'll get back soon with an update.M...

New tattoo design added to storm3d gallery

Hi,In my previous post I showed some sketches of an upper back tattoo.I have just finished the first sketch and added it to my maori gallery on my website:It is nr. Maori 117Simply click the images to order this design.M...

Sketches spine tattoo design tribal style

Hi!It has been a while since I posted my latest sketches, but here are a few of my new designs.A customer from the UK asked me to do a small tattoo, Kiri tuhi style for the spine, just between the shoulder blades.I came up with this sketch:Unfortunately I made the tattoo too wide, so I had to start a new sketch(I finished this design for...

Finished Kirituhi tribal style tattoo designs

Hi!I just finished two nice tattoo designs in a Kirituhi style mixed with some other tribal elements.The first one is a forearm tatoo design, which has some flames at the wrist in a negative space.The other elements had to be sharp and my customer wanted some curles in it.Here's the final tat2 design:The second design is for the elbow in...

tribal tattoo flames lower arm design

Hi,Here's another new design I'm working on this week. It's a lower arm tattoo piece, for a German customer. The tatoo is placed on the outside of the lower arm and wraps around to the inside a little. It had to look like a warrior armlet, with some symbols of fire, triangular shapes and flowing kirituhi curles.The first three pictures of...

Elbow tattoo design in mixed tribal style

Hi!It has been a while since I posted my last sketches and updates, but here is a new tattoo project that I started yesterday.One of my customers asked me to do an elbow tattoo, similar to the one Cesc Fabregas has.He only wanted to have it in a mixed tribal style like some of my images on my website.Here are the first pictures of this design...

Storm3d featured in tattoo magazine "Tattoo Planet"

Hi,Yesterday my brother visited me with a copy of the Dutch tattoo magazine "Tattoo Planet".In the past some of my drawings were published when I contacted them, that was a really nice surprise.But in the latest magazine, my website www.storm3d.com was reviewed and had some really positive comments. I didn't know that they were going to publish...

Tribal forearm tattoo tutorial video on youtube

Hi,It has been really nice job to do some filming and editing for my latest design "tutorial"First I had to set up my new camera (Panasonic HDC-SD9) which records in Full HD quality ;) on a sd-card.I recorded several scenes and edited it in Windowns Movie maker, I'm not a pro on editing, so I used this simple tool to add some titles and credits....

forearm tattoo design in Kirituhi tribal style

Hi,Just a nice project today, really enjoying these kind of designs. This one is a mixture of tribal styles and a bit of my own "storm3d-style" ;)This tatoo sketch is inspired by another custom design I did. You can find that shoulder tattoo design here.The total height is 22 cm x 8 to 10 cm in width. It's for the inside of the lower arm.My...

Printable shoulder tattoo designs in Maori Kiri tuhi style

Hi,In my webshop I sell high resolution printable tattoo designs.Once a tattoo image is ordered, I send a high res image to the customer and he/she can print it or send it to his/her tattoo artist. All designs are scanned at 300 dpi resolution and can be scaled to any size you wish.The tatoos I make are all handdrawn on A3 size printing paper....

Large shoulder and chest tatoo design finished

Hi there,I finished this drawing a few days ago, before I started on my Fabregas elbow tatoo.It was my first tattoo sketch this large, including a shoulder AND chest piece in one.Here's a picture of the high resolution custom tatou design:Comments, questions or other stuff? let me know!Regards, M...

Sketch update shoulder/chest tattoo design

Hi,A small update on the shoulder and chest tattoo design I'm working on right now. I changed the fill of some shapes to make it look a little less traditional maori style.Get back to you when I receive a message from my client.Regards, M...

Kirituhi shoulder and chest tattoo drawing

Hi!I promised to tell you something about one of my latest tattoo projects, so here it is.Normally my main part of designs consists of shoulder pieces, but for this design a customerasked me to do a shoulder AND chest piece in one.It's really tricky to get it all on a flat sheet of paper, so I needed some sort of body template.The tattoo...

quick update tattoo designs in progress

Hi!I haven't posted any new sketches and tattoo designs for a few days. Really busy with all kinds of stuff, but I'm working on a new shoulder/chest piece this week.Hopefully I can show you the first sketch in a few days.Till then!Kind regards, M...

Maori-inspired and flowers shoulder tattoo designs

Hi,The first few months of my blog, it had around 100 to 200 unique visitors a day.But in the last few weeks it's slowly raised to 450 people each day, so I will keep on posting and show you the tattoo projects I'm working on.For a new customer I designed a Maori shoulder piece with some flowers scattered on the design.The design is based...

High resolution tattoos and Maori tatoo flash designs

Hi!I finished a few new shoulder tatoo designs yesterday, so I wanted to show you the finished pieces.The first one is a shoulder design for a customer from Colombia. I had to adjust it multiple times before the customer was satisfied, but I finally had his approval and traced the pencil sketch with a fibre tip marker.Here's one of the sketches...