i would do anything for Buffy, but I would especially incorporate her into your tattoo 🐶

Frost sword raven for Kris! really looking forward to seeing this one healed and settled in, there’s a lot of overlapping grey tones and hues that will really shine once the skin isn’t so red.

Love Alfred Kubin! Schiele and Klimt get all the credit for turn of the century Austrian art, but this guy was blasting out top tier paranoid weirdo art. They show his work at the Neue Gallery on the upper east side from time to time.

thank you so much!

one of my fav cover ups i’ve gotten to do lately. lots of subtle warm and cool pigment greys mixed in there to help with saturation and definition.

#danbones #memoirtattoo #coveruptattoo #raven #birdtattoo

mummy hand lightbulb for Alan!

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

oooh i love this!

so good!

one day, i will figure out how to use watercolors like a normal person, but that day is not today.

At some point, I’ll get around to making more!

Here’s five original watercolor pieces ready to be tattooed like so, or altered to fit your tastes.

#danbones #tinylinin #watercolor #painting #tattoo #flashsheets #memoirtattoo #gothic #architecture #cathedral #windows

loose watercolor study (like no drawing loose) for a painting I’ve been working on. trying to have more fun with color, this is mostly different mixes of indigo and magenta. about 3” tall.

havin’ fun with snake scale patterns.

#danbones #tinylinin #blackandgrey #tattoo #snake #memoirtattoo

this is awesome!

Alan Lee, 1984.

#illustration #AlanLee

this is incredible 😍

a sorcerer most fowl!

thank you!

more Battle Birds, in full color, even.

#tattoo #danbones #tinylinin #memoirtattoo #wizard #bird

I made a flash sheet of Battle Birds a while back and I’ve tattooed a few of them so far. I plan on making more once I’m done with this other flash sheet I’m in the middle of.

thank you!

definitely one of my favorite hand blasters I’ve put out in the world.

#danbones #tattoo #tinylinin #blackandgrey #skull #reaper #memoirtattoo

that’s so nice to hear, i appreciate it!

hey thank you so much!

thank you!

Quick introduction - I’m Dan Bones, and I do technical illustrative tattoo work. I’m a former animator and motion graphics designer, and occasionally a set designer. I play guitar in Hyper Psychic, and you can usually find me bouldering, painting, or doing karaoke. Also proudly anti fascist.

In case you didn’t get enough of the other diving osprey I posted, here’s one I did in 2023.

hahahaha i would be honored!

Here’s a concept sketch i did that got rejected as a shirt design back in 2019. It’s just kinda lived in the back burner for the past 6 years, but now seems like a good time to do something with it.