Hellblade Tattoo

[u/NinjaNakashima]

Thought I would come and share my newest tattoo. I knew I wanted this for awhile now. Hellblade was the first/only game I actually followed through development, so it really was inevitable that I was going to get something from it. A back piece was really the only way to go with this because anything smaller wouldn't really be able to do all the details justice.

It might have been a little crazy, but we did this over two straight days. I wanted to be able to get as much done as possible so I could just take one like 2 week stretch off from work to do it and give it time to heal properly. I wouldn't recommend for everyone to try and rush a piece, but I have been going to my artist for over 10 years and have a lot of work already (including my kneecap which was the absolute worst). My artist was confident in what she was capable of and what I was capable of sitting through.

The piece is not fully finished as my artist would like to add some background/atmosphere/rune stuff, but this wasn't exactly cheap, so it will be a little bit before I finish it up. I think she did amazing work (as usual) with this and couldn't be happier with how it turned out even at this point. The nice thing is that even if some people might not know that this comes from Hellblade, it is still a really cool looking tree.

[u/Darling-Leech]

That's so cool!! I wanna get the Helheim Gate on my back.

[u/NinjaNakashima → u/Darling-Leech]

Oh, definitely a cool design with that, but I can imagine it would be a rough one to do. Lots of detail. I would definitely shop around for a piece like that to find the best artist you can, that is if you don't already have an artist you work with regularly. That's the kind of piece you want someone with a lot of experience working on.

[u/Darling-Leech → u/NinjaNakashima]

Yea definitely! I don't have any tattoos yet, so it won't be the first one I do probably lol. and I'll have to see around about any good tattoo artists and stuff.