Colour realism tattoo of the Joker's grinning face behind torn skin and green claw marks on a forearm, shown in five stages from black and grey to full colour.

Joker face tattoo on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A grinning Joker face sits within a torn-skin effect on the forearm, with green claw-like streaks running above it and a small HA lettering piece below. The image is a stacked sequence of five panels that moves from black and grey shading to full colour, with purple skin tones, bright green hair and eyes, and red blood-like detail. The backgrounds show a tiled floor and a room, and the composition focuses tightly on the arm and tattoo.

Realism Forearm Joker Torn skin Blood

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The Calloway and Son Travelling Fair pulled into a waterlogged field outside Stroud on a Tuesday, and by Thursday the sign painter Nell Ashdown had run out of white. She sat on an upturned crate behind the coconut shy with a rag in one hand, cursing the rain that kept lifting the gloss off the hoardings. Her brother had gone to the next town for paint, and the fair's big attraction, a cabinet of cracked mirrors, still had no face.

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The old showman, Mr Vane, wanted the Laughing Man on the front of the booth, the one he swore had worked the fair since his father's day. Nell had painted him before: a grin wide enough to split a board, green hair like wet grass under the lamps. That night the lamps flickered and the canvas tore on a nail, and beneath the rip she found a second face, grey and smudged in charcoal, that she had never painted at all.

She stared at it until the generator coughed and went dark. Then she took the red sable and, instead of mending the tear, she widened it, dragging green streaks across the canvas like claw marks. She laughed as she worked, because the mouth was already smiling back at her. By morning she had signed the board HA in small letters in the bottom corner and left the brush wet on the rail.

When Mr Vane came to inspect, he stood a long time in front of the booth. "Who painted the eyes?" he asked. Nell shrugged and packed her crate, and by noon the crowd gathering at the gate found the Laughing Man grinning down at them, as though he had been waiting all season for someone to let him out.