Art Project: Body in Art - Back Tattoo-final

Art project which I did a year back. The task was to use your own body in the art-piece, as it have been done many centuries.

I decided to take it to an interesting level by designing and giving myself a large tattoo on my back. Of course the tattoo is attached, but I took up the challenge to make it look as realistic on this image as possible.

A funny story is that the following monday after having uploaded this as my profile-image on Facebook, everyone in school wanted to see it for real. I couldn't help but to smile when teasing them by not showing, and eventually showing that my back was all clean.
Turned out my time spent adjusting and tweaking it hadn't been all in vain. Or was it, did I fool you, does it look real and if not - where does it show?

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INTERESTED IN THE PROCESS? then out the flowchart revealing how I went from idea to finished piece, here: [link]
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Should you let yourself inspire, please take note to notice me about it. I after all did model and do this entirely.

Complete tattoo design, edit and image belongs with © to me / Martin Lind Nielsen.