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Maya R.
Received: 2 days ago, via QR code
Summary
Maya wants a fine-line botanical half sleeve on her left forearm: wild roses, thistle, and a luna moth, as a memorial for her grandmother, who grew roses. She wants it to read as growing rather than arranged, and she is happy to collaborate on the composition, but she is firm on no colour and no lettering. Her budget is $800 to $1,200 and she is open to splitting the work across sessions, though she wants it healed by early September for a wedding. Her stated top concern is fading, which is worth addressing directly given that she is asking for fine line work into the inner elbow.
Flagged for discussion
Raised automatically during the consultation. They are information, not instructions: what you do with each one is your call.
Fine line into the inner elbow
Fine line work in the ditch is subject to constant creasing and movement. Lines there commonly blur or drop out within a few years. Worth deciding up front whether to carry heavier line weight through that zone, or to stop the composition below the crease.
Healing time against the September deadline
A piece this size usually runs two to three sessions with four to six weeks of healing between them. To be fully healed by early September, the first session needs to land by roughly mid-June. Later than that and the deadline gets tight.
Fading is her top concern, and she is asking for fine line
These two pull against each other, and she may not know it. A short conversation about line weight now will save a longer conversation about touch-ups in three years.
Creative
- Subject
- Wild roses, thistle, and a luna moth
- Style
- Fine line, with light stippled shading
- Intent
- Memorial for her grandmother, who grew roses. Wants it to feel alive and growing, not static.
- Design mode
- Collaborate
Body
- Placement
- Left forearm, running into the inner elbow
- Size
- Roughly 20 cm, wrist to inner elbow
- Skin context
- Fresh skin
- Skin tone
- Fitzpatrick III
- Visibility
- Needs to be coverable for work
Practical
- Budget
- $800 to $1,200 CAD
- Sessions
- Open to multiple
- Timeline
- Healed by early September, for a wedding
Client profile
- Experience
- Two existing tattoos
- Pain tolerance
- Moderate
- Concerns
- Fading over time, healing
- Hard nos
- No colour. No script or lettering.
References
Three pins she chose, plus a photo of the forearm she wants it on. In your dashboard these are the real images, full size.
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