Friends Tattoo

Designed this for a friend. He already has the turtle on his shoulder and wanted some tribal design around the out. We looked at a lot of tribal designs and he picked out a circle on to start with. I then created a vector design similar in Illustrator. Tattoo design is fun and I like the swirl effect of this design. He said the meaning behind his turtle is that turtle are slow and steady and just continue forward. The tattoo reminds him to do that when he is stressed. So I added that the outside circle was like the whirlpool that is life. It is all the spinning and craziness the turtle swims through.