I've been trying to design a tattoo for my mum but we keep running into roadblocks, mainly that I don't know how to design a tattoo, and that my mum got really attached to this first version - specifically, she really liked all the elements that all the artists she spoke to said needed to be simplified/changed 😂

She wanted a dragon, both because those are kind of my thing, and because she was born in the year of the dragon, but she also wanted it to have some lion-like traits, mainly the main and tail, for her starsign (leo). I did a few redraws and a couple of colour variations (including one with an orange and teal colour pallet to increase contrast between the background) but she was really stuck on this version.
I joked that she was so attached to this version of the character that I'm just calling this her fursona now. She didn't know what that meant but she agreed 😂

I'm open to feedback on this one, especially from any tattoo artists or someone who's designed them before! We've been working on this since last July lol