I've been wanting a second tattoo for a long while now, and have recently been drawing up some ideas, but nothing really clicked. One night last week, I told myself I would not go to sleep until I came up with something, and here it is. I really wanted the artist to do her thing on it, so I just gave her a rough sketch and some details, plus some books to use for reference. These $5 cards also helped a lot for drawing the Gaboon viper.



And I know BPs don't have fangs like that But I wanted the piece a little dark and bloody, so she used some creative license and I was happy with it, from the original sketch to the final work.

The tattoo has a couple of different meanings for me, namely my internal unrest due to some anger issues, and also a reference to the ouroboros, the symbol of a snake or a dragon that is eating its own tail (mostly taken to represent regeneration).