A classic depiction of Frankenstein’s monster, an epic looming character peering down at us as lightning strikes dramatically behind him. This beautiful portrait is truly Alive! This piece is a perfect example of the tattoo for the serious collector.

This hyperrealistic divine doggy represents Stephen’s skill with realism and portraiture. The precision of color and blends represents this beloved pet while the background flows perfectly along this collector’s calf. This piece is the epitome of the bespoke memorial fit for the most distinguished and thoughtful.

This amazing and skilled masterwork back mural is what Stephen’s clientele have come to expect from him. An illustrative realism backpiece tattoo, this is Stephen’s preferred style. The mysterious glow of the fire from within the jack-o-lanterns illuminate the gargoyle’s face even as the blue nimbus of the moon blankets the top of his body and wings. This piece represents the style of the truest of art lovers.

This biomechanical skull is done in the style directly inspired by the great master and originator of the style, HR Giger, RIP. The background represents the machinery and mechanisms that maintain the life of the machine, dropped back with darker values to lift the skull forward. Details abound in this piece from intricate details in the conduit to subtle textures in the skull’s features. This piece represents the refined taste of the elite collector of tattoos.

This Zombie octopus eats the brains out of a human skull while ink droplets bubble up in the background. This piece is a great example of monster textures in an otherwise realistic image. The synthesis of life and death and beauty calls the attention of tattoo collectors who love refinement and style. This piece is for those who love the art for the art itself.

Here is a lovely depiction of a snake wrapping up a leg, up her thigh, chest and ending on her torse. This illustrative realism design is based on her favorite snake. For those who love tattoos with grace and physical enhancement, this style is for you.

I don’t remember exactly what this covers. I think it was a tribal armband . This is a great example of Stephen’s skill with performing coverup tattoos. If not informed the coverup wouldn’t even be noticed. This vital vision of a commanding coverup is a precise example of a mastery of this style.

Stephen loves doing black and gray armor sleeves, particularly fantasy armor. It just compliments the body so well, while offering an opportunity to emphasize either masculine or feminine qualities. In the case of this design it’s masculine as it emphasizes the musculature, particularly the deltoid. For those seeking to maximize and emphasize the quality of their sensual and powerful forms, this style is most capable of ensuring that outcome.

This Eerie Alien peers at us with meaningful malevolence. His dark shadows foreshadow his dark intent. Done in traditional limited line realism, this piece represents one of Stephen’s favorite ways to approach realistic monsters. For the astute collector of the dark art and the mysterious, this design embodies the aesthetic that most illustrates the frightening hidden worlds just out of sight of the known.

This Lion Patronus represents the spirit animal of this tattoo collector while the golden snitch and deathly hallows further aligns this design with her favorite series, Harry Potter. This design is done in the illustrative realism style and uses the golden snitch to create a flowing form as a framing action around the lion’s face while accenting the blue in the lion with the warmer tones in the snitch to emphasize the glowing effect of the patronus’s nimbus. This design tickles the taste of the thoughtful and distinguished and is perfect for fans of pop culture and fantasy.

This beautiful beastie is the manifestation of evil from the video game The Evil Within, and even though she is covered in burns and has talons for fingers, she is still striking to behold. You can see the marks of charged flesh covering her arms and legs, her head is down in a menacing angle as she reaches up to attack with her threatening talons. This type of piece is for the serious collector who is both passionate about dark art, tattoos, and of their favorite pop culture videogames.

This monster is a revisioning of the mighty Eldridge God Cthulu, tentacles enhance his facial features and crab-like plating frame his forehead. His temple is adorned with a seashell-like Fibonacci spiral that represents both the sea and the depth of the void of darkness from which Cthulu hales. This beautiful depiction of a dark art monster is a perfect example of what the discerning horror fan seeks in their representational designs.

This upper arm tattoo represents the inevitability of Death, his hand beckons you to join him in his necrotic abode. Don’t let him lure you in, you still have plenty of life to live. For those serious tattoo collectors who choose to respect the harbinger of death while also defiantly rejecting him, this is the sort of concept for you.

Ahhhh! Is that a Wade Wilson I see? Nope, Wade is a fictional character, I am Deadpool, and I am much more real. I couldn’t help but notice you looking at death just a second ago. Did you know I had a love affair with Death? In my experience she is much more curvaceous and supple than that Skeletor you were just looking at. Fun fact, It was her rejection of Thanos that incited the Infinity Wars in the legacy accounts. So, I sorta caused that whole ordeal, but Marvel wanted to pucker up to the production companies for mass appeal and didn’t even give me a cameo. So if you want a tattoo that catches my character while having something fun and spontaneous to talk about, then I just might recommend Stephen. He’s not as pretty as me with my mask off, nor is he quite as entertaining, but I suppose he’d do in a pinch.

This collector was set on getting most of his body covered in space themed tattoos, and we got a pretty decent amount done. The supreme attention to detail in the God’s Eye Nebula are striking, and just look at the coronal ejection in the sun, primo. For those elite clients looking for a singular experience, this one-of-a-kind styling is for you.

This epic coverup represents the fusion between the themes of death, industry, vision and aesthetics. Each element takes patterns from biological life and synthetic machinery in a beautifully morbid collage of techno-macabre. A select masterpiece of darkness and excellence, this pristine sleeve calls to those seeking grand quality and an appreciation of the dark arts.

This sleeve is a coverup of a whole tribal sleeve. It features the zombie-like creature on the upper arm with elephant-esque tentacles wrapping around anatomic musculature patterning in the background. It represents the mechanical mechanisms of biology and the blurry line between the synthetic and organic. This styling is for those with an appeal for the macabre and curious, distinguished darkness is their domain.

This full-sleeve coverup reveals the darkness within, the skin opens up at the shoulder with teeth and fleshy filaments revealing a monstrous skull upon whose head opens up the demonic third eye. From the creature’s mouth spews scaley tentacles that wrap down the arm, revealing more dark eyes and menacing teeth. This piece illustrates the darkness within and by embracing that darkness may one find beauty and the appreciation of it.

A beautiful Collage of epic proportion, this sleeve represents the amorous stability of the deep. It meshes the formidable destructive powers of the bottom-dwelling ship wreck, with the compelling classical diver’s helmet over which swims the majestic sea turtle, the divine jelly fish, the graceful stingray, and the charming sea horse. This elegant sleeve is a masterfully fabricated black and gray realism tattoo perfect for the most discerning collector.

A collage of classical horror representing some of the most iconic horror characters throughout cinematic history. This sleeve is stylish and provocative, while tasteful and striking, an exquisite presentation of refinement and class for the collector seeking to impress and awe even the tattoo detractors.

I am disciplined and austere, stoic and poised. I am the very image of a noble gentleman. Cross me, and the necrotic demon of wrathful destruction shall emerge to wreak upon you an onslaught of such scale that entire worlds shudder and quake. This exquisite example of curated grotesque horror is a masterwork of a bioorganic cryptid. This is dark ark color at it’s finest, manifesting a dynamic and potent message of menace. This First-class concept is ideal for the most sophisticated protector and selective collector of fine tattoos.

There is no more sophisticated class of fans than those of the timeless epic Starwars. Though this is an unfinished work, it is well on it’s way to completion. It is done in the collage style of sleeve design, tailored to feature the collector’s favorite characters. This style is classic and personalized, capable of instilling a sense of unrivaled fandom status while cementing the precision of one’s specific interests.

This sleeve is technically not a coverup. The bespoke collaboration between artist and collector resulted in an epic space-age armor sleeve. The armor is worn from use, exemplified by the faded and worn decals covering its surface. This sort of singular outcome is only achievable when the creative flow is maximized between artist and collector.

Upon the flesh grows the grotesque monstrous horror of dissatisfied souls. They gnash their teeth excitedly and hungrily peer out, looking for their next prey. For those renowned collectors of the dark art, this sort of abstract grotesque monstrosity makes for superior filler pieces over the clouds and stars of yesteryear.

This sleeve is based on the monstrous aliens from the epic movie The Tomorrow War about a desperate humanity on the brink of extinction and our last ditch efforts to scrape together a victory. This tattoo collector was so impressed by the monsters terrifying aesthetic that he needed to make it part of his own collection. This sort of monstrous compilation is perfect for the fan of the mysterious, unknown, and frightening.

Stephen exemplifies his esteemed coverup capabilities with this stunningly picturesque sleeve. It features creatures favored by the collector and they gracefully swim up her arm in an elegant upward climb. This tasteful style is fit for the most discerning and selective tattoo collector.

Here is an example of a coverup where Stephen actually remembered to get a picture of the tattoo being covered. Here we have a phoenix rising out of the ashes with a triumphal scream its fiery wings burning across this collector’s side and up to her shoulder. The phoenix is a symbol of regrowth and renewal and is an excellent fit for any collector’s repertoire.

This sublime seascape is a superb example of stylish illustrative color realism at its finest. It is done in an amalgamation of a scene layout and a collage, with the undersea collection of characters gathered below the beautiful sunset above. This customized beauty of graceful artistry is perfect for anyone seeking to represent what grants them spiritual fulfillment in artistic form.

This is a wonderful example of an ideally executed coverup. The original design was very dark to begin with, making for a very demanding request, but Stephen was able to masterfully execute on this challenge, where the original tattoo is virtually invisible in the final design.

The tattoo itself is Kerrigan from the 1998 epic strategy game StarCraft‍ ‍and a favored character of the tattoo collector. This piece is a supreme example of how successful a coverup can be when the artist is given just a concept and free reign to realize a phenomenal vision.

Here is another phoenix being utilized as a coverup. Its wings spread wide to wrap up and around her ribs, accentuating this collector’s physique. This Phoenix is newly arisen and not fully formed, its bejeweled heart is left exposed, protected only by sharpened ribs that paradoxically threaten to pierce the very heart they are meant to protect. As it is being reborn it is burning away at the flesh of the collector, leaving scorch marks surrounding its fiery wings. The Phoenix is not entirely defenseless though as its powerful talons reach out to claw at those who threaten it. This piece represents both the strength and vulnerability of this collector, and expresses her uncanny ability to rise up from her struggles renewed and empowered. This sort of design is meant for the thoughtful and aesthetically driven, akin to the beast within archetype but more elegant and feminine.

For any Starwars historian, this collage of storm troopers simply makes us smile. These heroes of the clone wars are depicted in their power stances, and flow masterfully up this collector’s leg. Unfortunately Stephen was not able to get better pictures of this wonderful leg sleeve. Sometimes the glair just wins the day.