This is a half sleeve tattoo I designed for Scott Blakeney. He wanted a gypsy girl holding and hourglass on the outside of this upper arm. And the words "Live Life" in script side on, on his inner upper arm. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Lady Macbeth Shakespeare Tattoo
This is a Lady Macbeth tattoo I designed for Miriam Angulo. Miriam was very clear about how she wanted her design to look but also gave me alot of freedom to interpret her specifications the way I thought would work best. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Crow Crown Belt Crest Tattoo Design
I designed this belt family crest tattoo for Rob Hay. It will go along side a previous tattoo I designed for Rob of a Squirrel. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Monday, October 14, 2013
Grim Reaper Eagle Chest Tattoo
This is a full chest piece tattoo design I just completed for Daniel
Encarnacion. Daniel ask Me to design a wolf fighting the grim reaper and
an eagle flying over water holding a heart. And also to inclued the
words "Only Death Can Stop Me" into the design. Copyright
www.samphillips.co.nz
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Nature Guardian Wolf Girl Full Tattoo Sleeve
This is a full arm sleeve tattoo of a guardian
of the forest that I designed for Dmitriy Sabitov. The empty space on
the inner upper arm is where he already has a tattoo that he wanted me
to design around. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Garter Gun Leg Tattoo
This is an upper leg gun in garter tattoo I
designed for Jonathan Bolin's girlfriend. That's the third design
Jonathan has ordered now! Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Tinker Bell Bad Girl Tattoo
This is a half sleeve tattoo of Tinker Bell as a bad girl that I
designed for Jonathan Bolin. Jonathan gave me alot of free reign on this
piece so it was really fun to work on. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Monday, July 1, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Mad Moxxi With Tip Jar Tattoo
Andy Nicholls asked me to design this tattoo
of the xbox / computer game character "Mad Moxxi" from the game
"Boarderlands 2" I don't have as much time to play xbox these days but
my xbox live gamer tag is Concrete Eyes if anyone wants to add me and
join one of my games. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Libra Lights Poxleitner Tattoo Sleeve
This is a lower arm sleeve tattoo I designed
for Victor Laforteza. Victor asked for the inner arm to be of a greek
goddess woman holding scales (Libra) surrounded by waves. And for her
face and hair to look like Lights
Poxleitner. He also wanted a snake wrapping around a skull with sun
rays and three stars included on the outside of the lower arm. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Spear Piercing a Sun Sphere Tattoo
This is an upper arm tattoo I designed for
Jarrett Quan. Jarrett asked me to design a Chinese style sun (like you
see alot of images of drangons holding) getting pierced by a spear, with
the flames from the sun licking around the spear. I did a bit of
research and these sun spheres are also referred to as pearls. So I
decided to colour the sphere with a pearl like finish. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Roller Derby Logo
This a conceptual logo I designed to show case what I can do for roller
deby teams. I might be working on a full body logo design for this team
in the future. Share this with your team and who knows I might end up
working on your team logo! Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Print Mighty Skull Tee Design
I don't know what it is but I just really like drawing skulls! It must be all the metal music I listen to. Here is another one I designed for Print Mighty. You can get it printed on a t-shirt for the super low price of $20 New Zealanddollars here: http://shop.printmighty.co.nz/ Copyright www.printmighty.co.nz
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Jesus and devil Chest Tattoo Design
I've had this concept of Jesus Christ and the devil for a male chest tattoo for a while now and just had some time to work on it over the last few days. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Stick To Your Guns Pirate Tee Design
This is a new t-shirt design I just finished. It is available at http://samphillips.printmighty.co.nz/Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Angelic Bow And Arrow Warrior Half Sleeve Tattoo
This is a warrior angel half sleeve tattoo
design I created for Espen Thure. Espen gave me alot of freedom with
this design which I really enjoyed. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Monday, February 25, 2013
Gypsy Reading Under Tree Leg Tattoo
This is a half lower leg tattoo I designed for Ashliegh Louise Li.
Ashliegh asked me to design a tattoo of a gypsy girl wearing colourful
headphones around her neck, chuck taylor shoes on her feet. Sitting
under a tree with her guitar and cat. She also asked me to inclued the
words “Read to live, live to sing” into the design. Copyright Ashliegh Van Helmont. www.samphillips.co.nz
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Shark, Gypsy and Sugar Skull Tattoo Sleeve
This is an arm sleeve tattoo I designed for Etienne Lombard of South Africa. It took me four days to finish but I’m really happy with the result. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Skull and Pistols Half Sleeve Tattoo
This is a short lower arm sleeve tattoo I
designed for Nuno Santos. Nuno ask for the tattoo design to inclued two
crossed pistols, skulls and four aces. And this is the result! Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Pheonix Libra Scales Tattoo
This is a pheonix forarm tattoo I designed for Jonathan Davies. Jonathan
ask me to design a tattoo of a pheonix holding scales as he is a libra.
He also asked that I don’t use many colours and to keep most of it
greysale with some red elements. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz
Monday, January 7, 2013
Feather Pocket Watch Tattoo Dress Design
This is a t-shirt dress that I designed to sell at Parachute Music Festival. There will only be 5 available at the Print Mighty tent so you'll have to be quick if you want one! If you would like to order one via paypal private message me and we'll make it happen. Copyright www.samphillips.co.nz