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 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 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 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 sable textures in the skull’s features.

This Zombie octopus eats the brains out of a human skull while ink droplets bubble up in the backgorund. This piece is a great example of monster textures in an otherwise realistic image.

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.

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

Stephen loves doing black and gray armor sleeves, particularly fantasy armor. it just compliments the body so well, while offering an opportunity to emphasize and either masculine or feminine qualities of the piece. In the case of this design it’s masculine as it emphasizes the musculature, particularly the deltoid.

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.

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 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 menacing as she reaches up to attack.

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 spiral, all of which represents his sub surface nautical origins.

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.

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.

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.