Black and grey realism tattoo of a man's face with a raised hand gesture on the forearm.

Realism portrait of a man on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A black and grey realism portrait of a man with short, tousled hair and a stern expression, shown from the chest up. A raised hand with a pointed finger sits in the lower foreground, and partial lettering is visible at the bottom edge of the design. The shading is smooth and detailed, with strong contrast between the dark background and the highlights on the face.

Realism Forearm Portrait Man Hand Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Every September the wind came down off the hill and shook the Pendry orchard until the windfalls lay in the grass like dropped coins. Old Tobias Quill kept the trees that year, as he had for forty seasons, and he kept the gate too, with a raised finger he would turn on any boy who came near the russets before the frost had been and gone.

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The village children called it the Warning Finger. It was a grey hand, its knuckles carved into the gatepost by his father, and it pointed down the lane as if it could read the sky. Nobody dared test it, though the lad from the cider house tried once, boasting he would carry a sack of Bramleys home before supper. He went over the wall at dusk, and in the morning the wall was still standing, and so was he, sitting in the ditch with his boots full of rain and no apples at all.

Tobias did not gloat. He walked the lad to the gate, lifted his finger, and said, "The tree knows whose hand picked the first one." The cider lad asked what that meant. Tobias said it meant he should come back in spring with a pruning knife, which was harder work than stealing and paid less, but it kept a man honest.

That autumn the lad came back in March with a knife in his belt. In the last week of September Tobias left one apple high on the oldest bough, out of reach of anyone who had not asked, and the finger on the gatepost kept pointing at it all through the winter.