Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Small camel tattoo on a foot

Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small camel in profile is tattooed on the skin, shown in dark ink with soft grey shading along the body and legs. The linework is smooth and the animal sits centrally against a plain skin background. The image is in black and grey only, with a close crop on the tattoo.

Ankle Animal

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

The camel would not kneel for Mr Pryce, and he had paid the Scarborough sands for the whole of a Tuesday. Her name was Hester, and she had walked up from the Clarke brothers' travelling menagerie in Hull with a sack of barley and an opinion about everything. Pryce wanted her folded on the sand like a parcel so the card could say Oriental Wonder in gilt letters. Hester stood up again each time and looked past him at the sea.

Keep reading

I was nineteen and held the bridle because nobody else would. The tide crept up a little with every shout, and I could feel her weight go soft against my shoulder, the way a horse leans when it has decided to forgive you. Pryce gave up at four o'clock and sent us back along the front with the wet plates packed in straw. I thought that was the end of it.

A fortnight later the developer returned a print Pryce had never asked for. It was not the posed sitting but the walk he had refused: Hester in profile, neck high, one foot lifted over the shining sand, her shadow stretched behind her like a long dark rope. He trimmed it close and pinned it above the till.

Customers asked what the animal was. Pryce told them it was a camel that had never once been told what to do.