Neo-traditional tattoos on the tops of both feet, showing a black panther head with orange flame accents and ornate scrollwork, with a crescent moon above the left ankle.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Panther and crescent moon on both feet

Neo-trad · Other · Mixed · Photo

Two mirrored panther heads sit on the tops of the feet, outlined in bold black with stippled dotwork along the lower edges. Above them, a crescent moon and an ornate key-like scroll are drawn in solid black with swirling linework. Black and grey shading on the panthers is set against orange flame shapes and orange details, with the subject centred and the toes visible at the bottom of the frame.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You bring the narrowboat Juniper up to Cold Harbour lock an hour after dark, when the lock-keeper has gone home and left the gates standing open like a question. The paddle gear is stiff and your breath hangs in front of the lamp. A crescent moon sits low over the water, thin as a paring knife, and each time the boat rises in the chamber it seems to swing a little closer.

Keep reading

The key to the gate cabinet should hang on the hook in the cabin, where Ada Fenwick kept it for forty years before she sold the boat to you. You checked it that morning. Now there is only the nail and a loop of faded red string. Someone has taken it, or the river has, and the scrolled ironwork of the cabinet door stares back at you like a locked thing that knows exactly what it is guarding.

On the cabin side, the two black panthers Ada had painted on the planks seem to lean in the lamplight, one facing the bow, one the stern, their orange ears catching the stove glow through the window. You crouch and feel along the cabinet's underside until your fingers close on cold metal wedged against the bilge rim. The key. You turn it, the paddles grind, and the boat drops with a long sigh into the lower cut, where the moon finally breaks on the water and the two panthers stay exactly where you left them.

More like this

Neo-traditional colour tattoo on a forearm showing a grey cat head with yellow eyes, a dragonfly above, and a red poppy among gold scrolling leaves.
Cat, dragonfly and poppy on a forearm
Colour realism tattoo of a peacock with a blue head and green eye-patterned tail feathers across the top of a bare foot, on grass.
Peacock tattoo on the top of a foot
Interlaced serpent tattoo in a Norse knotwork style running down the upper arm, with dotwork shading on the scales.
Interlaced serpent on an upper arm
Colour peacock tattoo in blues and greens across the top of a bare foot on grass, with blue painted toenails.
Peacock tattoo across the top of a foot
Two side-by-side views of a bold black tribal-patterned tattoo of spirals and waves with red chevron fills, wrapping the upper arm.
Tribal spiral and wave design on upper arm
Three views of a full arm sleeve tattoo in colour, showing blue tulip buds, swirling scrolls and pale clouds across the upper arm and forearm.
Full arm sleeve with tulips, clouds and scrolls
Colourful Japanese style octopus tattoo with grey waves and green tentacles across the upper arm and shoulder.
Octopus and waves on an upper arm
Realistic peacock feather tattoo on the outer thigh, with a teal, purple and yellow eye at the top and a grey-shaded feather running down the leg.
Peacock feather on the outer thigh
Colourful neo-traditional style tattoo of two birds with swirls and flowers across the top of a foot, with red painted toenails.
Two colourful birds on a foot
Three views of a forearm tattoo of a pocket watch in black and grey with turquoise accents and loose brushstroke splashes, placed on the inner forearm.
Pocket watch forearm tattoo in three views
Realistic peacock feather tattoo on the outer thigh, with a teal, purple and gold eye at the top and grey shaded plumes running down the leg.
Peacock feather on the outer thigh
Colour tattoo of a stylised figure with swirling head and teal ribbons, shaded to look like carved stone, on the calf.
Carved stone figure with teal swirls on a calf

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.