looks good man so far, but don’t be scared to take it down your arm a bit further and onto your chest, give yourself a bit more space for that type of tattoo as your trying to condense alot of detail in a confined space.

Japanese tattoos should be readable to the eye from a distance, and I think from further than 5 feet away it might be hard to make out the details or to see what the tattoo is.

I like it though. Is that a koi fish or dragon koi on the top part of your shoulder. I wish i could see it.

Must of hurt on the inside of the arm. I just had some outline work done there, and it was excruciating.

yea and maybe in the future you could consider bringing the water bars down a bit further past the skull to the base of the flower to cap it off nice and clean around the arm.

this is pretty smart it gives of a bright effect unlike some of the other tattoo’s