Hey folks, just to introduce myself – my name is Stuart, i’m 24 and from Scotland. I’m currently in the process of designing my own tattoo, i’ts going to be a half sleeve on my right upper arm. Now, i’ll be the first to admit that i’m certainly no artist but my plan is to draw my design on paper and then take it to my artist and have him work his magic on it.

My design at the moment has come to a standstill and i’m looking for some guidance or tips on the shading/background of the tattoo. I tried to upload the photo that i had taken onto here, but for some reason the upload keeps failing.
Basically the design is 2 mid sized stars and 1 smaller star with vines joining them, something similar to the random photo i uploaded from a website.(You can see it on my profile, not sure how to paste it on here though?)

Any ideas on what shading or background would go well with this kind of idea? Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers.