This is Bobby. He's got a dragon and koi fish all along his arm in Japanese motif. I'm very partial to the Japanese style of tattoo, and the traditional Samoan style - both of which I feel are very spiritual, have a lot of symbolic metaphors.

This is the second portrait in The Tattoo Project series.

I also decided to do a new design to the blog - my older one was slightly airy, minimalistic light-colored feel - this one is more dramatic in-your-face type, and darker feel. Hope you like it :) I've decided that I'm going to be putting a new design every year... hopefully I'm ambitious enough to pull that off...