13 Horror,Creepy,Gothy Tattoos

On this Valentines Day we celebrate with horror!! Enjoy

Freehand emerging skull.

A little pink poison pirate web heart.

Edward Gorey is one of my favorite artist/writers.

Some Satany Goaty Grotesquery.
It was a privilege to do this shrunken head on an artist that I admire and love both his artwork and tattoos. A very talented guy, Dart Daugherty owner of Darts Aloha Tattoos in Austin TX.

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Ah, The Deadly Spawn. If you haven't seen this movie do yourself a favor and check it out. Awesome shlocky low budget B-horror like only the 80's could produce. A cult classic.

Love the Jack-o-lantern!
A Metalocalypse inspired totem.My wife's calve. You can find the preliminary sketches here http://monsterlabcreations.blogspot.com/2010/05/original-severed-rockabilly-zombie-chic.html
One of my favorite zombie tattoos. I had alot of fun working on this one.
An oldy but a goody. The Crypt Keeper.
Some Vincent Locke Cannibal Corpse goodness on my clients neck. Pretty Metal! \../ >< \../
Good old Texas Chainsaw Massacre action. Leatherface doing his thing. I took a little artistic license and added more blood to the blade and his apron. This client came to me with a workable but pretty beat outline of this image. I would have recommended that this image be placed on a part of the body more conducive to the design. As it was, the blade of the chainsaw wraps around his ankle so I had to work with it.

Evil Pope

This will eventually be a part of a bigger piece but this is at least a finish part of that bigger piece.

Acrylic, gold leaf, and bass wood. Oh and its like 9 or 10 in. tall.

Zombie hand

A little somethin' somethin'. Severed zombie hand squeezing a plucked eyeball, yum!

Acrylic on basswood. Its about 4.5 in. tall.

Cthulhu half-sleeve

Free-hand half-sleeve of the ancient one. It was done over three or four sessions, I'm not sure to be honest. I'm a big fan of Lovecraft, tentacles/cephalopods, monsters, and horror so this tattoo was a pleasure! I want to do more Lovecraftian creatures and such.

Drawn on with colored sharpies.
Outline.

Completed!

Coffin business card holder

My business card holder at the shop. I made the entire thing out of bass wood and lined it with red velvet.

The head stone is carved bass wood and painted with acrylic.

Momento Mori

Heres a little carving I did in some bass wood. I think I'm going to make resin casts of it, sort of mass produce and sell it. Painted of course. Its about 7 x 3.5 in.

Sexy ladies

Heres some pin-ups from my "Pin-Up a day" sketchbook which hasn't been worked in with the frequency the title would suggest. I do intend to fill the book though. This is Bethezda, she might be reworked a little (add tattoos) to be a cartoony version of my wife for her blog. http://bethezdaspreoccupations.blogspot.com/ Check it out.

Tattoo girly.
Cthulhu girly.
and yet another Vamp.

deficit omne quod nasciture

deficit omne quod nasciture - everything that is born passes away (Quintillan)

I completed this painting a few months ago. I'm pretty proud of it predominantly because I rarely complete paintings and completing this one has invigorated the idea that I can finish paintings. That statement will make more sense to other artists. I have lots of projects, paintings and otherwise, that I've started but have yet to complete. I've regained the confidence to complete things. Leonardo daVinci said," Art is never finished, only abandoned." This is has been true in the extreme for me for many years.

I used gold leaf on the Catholic Icon inspired burst behind her head and as the trim to her veil. Gold leaf leaves a great result but it is a bitch to apply.
Close up of her face and a strong gold leaf contrast shot.
Lastly a detail of the banner, which is one of my favorite details of the painting.
The painting is all acrylic with gold leaf detail on 19 x 15 in. oval illustration board. The Acrylics I used and generally use are actually Games Workshop acrylics. I've used/tried lots of other acrylics and found that these work the best for me. I paint minis as a hobby (Games Workshop 40K and Fantasy) and have always used said brand and find the color selection, opacity, and consistency suits me.

Monster!

Inspired by the game Darksiders. Great game too. Action/RPG in a Zelda kind of way. Really looking forward to Darksiders II. Yep, I'm a gamer too, big surprise right?