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I have always loved peacocks. Their way of standing, their colors, their very proud yet not aggressive side\u2026 there is something about them that I find completely fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when I drew this project in color on the back, I already knew that I wanted a very present peacock, with lots of movement in the feathers and a composition that really takes up the whole space. This was clearly not the kind of drawing that someone would come and do in a short two-hour session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had posted the drawing hoping to be able to realize it one day. Then a man identified his sister under the post, saying something like: \"Isn't that exactly what you wanted to do?\" And in fact, yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We started exchanging very simply. The project was clear: a peacock in color, on its back, large. We quickly scheduled the first sessions and the work began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In total, we spent about forty hours on this back. And forty hours, of course, aren\u2019t just forty hours of tattooing. It\u2019s several appointments, long days, moments when the pain becomes really present, others where it\u2019s much easier to talk, where we laugh a lot and where we also end up getting to know each other very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a project as long as this, the person who gets the tattoo is really part of the process. You have to go back, continue even when you know exactly what awaits us, and accept that the result will be built slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I didn\u2019t want the back to become a mass of colors without any breath. It was necessary to keep the peacock readable from a distance, give the feathers depth, and ensure that the whole remained balanced even before it was completely finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The feathers gradually opened up, and the colors really found their place over the course of the sessions. It\u2019s also about projects like this that you understand how important it is to think about a large tattoo as a whole from the very beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n