Giant serpent

A giant serpent coiling over the rocks, from Hokusai's illustrated Water Margin. Snakes stand for protection and change in Japanese tattooing. Forearm, ribs or calf, 15 cm and up.

Katsushika Hokusai, An Illustrated New Edition of Suikoden (The Water Margin) (Shinpen suiko gaden), 1805-38. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013. Public domain.

Public domain. Any artist can tattoo it; ask them to draw it their way.