Colour realism marlin breaking through a swell across the chest, freshly tattooed
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Marlin and swell

Style
Colour realism
Placement
Chest
Sessions
[number of full days]
Healed
[weeks at healed photo]

[A few lines in Dylan’s words about marlin and swell: the idea behind it, how the design was built around the chest, and how the sessions went.]

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