edgar allen poe

Just a progress shot of a piece the client and myself are building up.

Im really enjoying this one, especially when it comes to illustrating the imagery and the feel of it.

The style is very much illustrated with lots of descritive lines to show off form.

Theres still more to come with adding in pieces to the sleeve so updates futhur on for sure.

medusa update 2

Another session on the medusa piece today having five sits in total so far.

Quite impressed by my client with the way he handled this whole ordeal!

Its still very fresh so theres some flash glare and some colors to settle in so definately more photo updates coming once fully healed.

New business cards!

These arrived yesterday and much to my approval they turned out great.

Just had to share it!

girl with vulture sleeve

With the end of the year coming that can only mean one thing....Many sleeves to be wrapped up, literally.

king, queen sleeve

Finally finished. Will definately post photos at a later date showing more of the underarm part of the sleeve.

some illustrations of late

Just some random things Ive been working on late this year, hopefully have will have some of it in tattoo format to show also. Looking forward to plenty of animal sketches for this coming Jan.

Siren update

Heres an update on the siren sleeve. Its a fresh in places and healed in others so a definate update when it all settles down in the skin should be up soon. Had some fun adding a treasure map onto the skull and some nice rock work on the behind part of the sleeve.

bear attacking deer

Finally finished the Bear attacking a deer yesterday. Quite happy with the results.Its a little different from my usual designs, But It was good to step outside of my norm and play with some old school influence in the piece. It actually sparked off some more ideas for another piece to come....

Will definitely post newer healed pics soon.

color tday

Completed some more color on the medusa side piece tday. 

3.5 hours in tattoo time tday and about 7 hours all up so far. Looking forward to tightening up the face and adding some more color blends next sit.

crow section

A snippet of a large arm piece. Its pretty fresh so its got some glare.Ill post updates when its fully healed.

Really getting into bird tattoos lately!

drowning hand

This is a small section of sleeve I was playing around with. The focus was on a drowning sailor reaching out towards a siren.

new bird

part of a new sleeve in the making. 

day of the dead hybrid

Day of the dead hybrid girl.

 I had some freedom to run on this one so I added a bit of a pin up girl influence with certain elements. Done in one sit also and adding a bird on the lower arm today eventually becoming a full sleeve.

skull sleeve

A section of a sleeve with two sessions left to finish.

Looking forward to more progress!

Rams head

A familiar piece I managed to bring to life! 

Sorry for the shitty camera flash in the hair of the ram. No color in this photo was enhanced on computer either.

Ill get better photos shortly.

The whole front will basically be filled with leaves flowers and bats.

The pieces blurred at the top where done by someone else.

medusa

A new piece I started yesterday. Medusa and her her cut off with plenty of snake action!

It was this guys first tattoo and he sat like a rock, unbelievable.

instagram pics

Heres a few designs yet to be tattooed by myself.

I blog quite often these small designs on instagram for iphone so people can look at how current projects are shaping up. Instagram is quite addictive I must say!

Look me up as user justinacca for more.

orange coloured day dead girl

Another take on a day of the dead girl. Theres a little bit of skin inflamation etc going on here and some glare to throw in there also.Would like to get some healed photos for yall.

One sit piece I might add. 

Kings mistress sleeve

Heres part of a king and mistress full sleeve in progress.... It took me three days of decisions and sketching to come up with a moustache I thought suited the beard on the design ! 

Plenty of updates to come.

Siren sleeve progress

Heres an update on the siren full sleeve.

Quite happy with the way its healed tho I will be going back into the piece to tighten a few things and complete the background also.

Artboardz Justin Acca model

This arrived at the studio and has been blowing my mind everyday ,thanks to Artboardz.

And yes, it can be bought! Check it out

http://artboardz.com/boardz/

Artboardz

Heres a board produced by Artboardz, designed by myself. Its well made and sooo slick. 

This puppies for sale, extremely limited and will make heads turn on any surf beach ! Looks insane mounted on your wall too !

Address any interests of purchase to me personally @ acca@devilsinktattoo.com

another gypsy

Finally finished this enjoyable piece. Sorry for the flash.

Ill be updating with healed photos soon.

yet another gypsy

Another slightly different angle with taken with the flash on.

kings mistress

Just another angle......

kings mistress

New beginnings of a sleeve to come. Basically she is the kings mistress. Plenty of follage, roses and  other items to come.

Day of the dead

Another day of the dead girl.This is a section of a sleeve in progress.More ornamental flowers etc will be added below the face. Enjoying these pieces a lot at the moment !

Zombified

Zombies pieces are a favourite of mine.You can get so much character into them with facial expressions and gore when drawing and designing them. I feel free when designing these pieces. 

The photo was taken in different lighting with no flash as opposed to the photo below and I captured a slight angle to give distortion a little to the viewer.

There was no photoshop editing on the actual tattoo photo except for the background.

Bring on the zombie pieces people....

Zombie grrrl

This was completed in one session, around five and a half hours. I noticed the scale of the tattoo was quite large when putting the tattoo stencil on.The Hand in the piece was life size scale and the head similar as well. This guys leg was pretty long too, so scale had to be big as we are covering the whole leg, ankle to knee eventually. The face was modelled by Lucy and I used lighting effects with actual lights when taking ref photos for the piece. I futhur developed the photo in photoshop to get some crazy colors happening. It felt good to knock out a large piece in one sit. Hopefully get some healed shots.

bird rose key

A bird thats part of a sleeve....... Oh and a rose......fun times

vulturine guineafowl.

First stage of a full sleeve.

Has a few small areas to tighten over the course of the sleeve. 

On the topic matter....this interesting bird has beautiful electric blue feathers in its body and is quite vulture looking.

Interstingly enough the color in the photo was not enhanced at all with photoshop..... Just good lighting and a decent slr camera ! Will update with healed shots over time also.

Siren sleeve tattoo 1

This is part of the sleeve that will feature a siren girl as the main focus along with nautical instruments and other sea influenced objects....maybe a hand reaching from the water drowning to the sound of the harp playing.....

Siren sleeve tattoo

Early stages of a full sleeve. Plenty to go here.The Sketch was posted earlier in illustrations.

Skull and roses sleeve

Part of a skull and roses sleeve.Will be adding birds and a girl to the upper part of the arm.

Stay tuned for more......

skull arm

Here it is, Ive managed to get a half decent photo at the time it was done.Should have some healed photos of this later.Theres more fill to come also.

gypsy side piece design

Gypsy girls are a favourite, so it seems....Yet another cool project on the go in its first stages.

zombie girl study

Yep, back into the zombie girls and decrepitness. Having fun doing caricatures of messed up zombies.This ones going to be a lot of fun and on seeing the color study you'll see why......that'll be entering this blog shortly...

gypsy side piece

Start of a new gypsy side piece. A bit over two hours to put the outline down.This guy sat like a rock, no movement or complaining, just pure dedication and a great sitting effort ! The guy does box after all , Pain is probably his friend!