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ARTISTEckel
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PAGES117
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BINDINGHard bound
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SIZE9.75" x 6.75"
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WEIGHT1.19 lbs
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CONTENTLine Drawings and Sketches
Garden of Serpents is Eckel's book-length study of one subject: the snake. Across 117 pages of line drawings and sketches, it covers snakes on their own and combined with skulls, helmets, flowers, gauntlets and other imagery, at every scale from small one-shot ideas to full backpieces.
It opens with a how-to tutorial that walks through drawing snakes, then moves into pages of snake heads, many worked out in red and black, and sketches of bodies weaving through flowers and around other subjects. Seeing so many variations helps with the hard parts of snake tattoos: getting the head right, keeping the body flowing, and fitting it to the shape of the body part.
The compact hardcover works like a small encyclopedia of serpents, and it's useful for any tattooer, whether you draw traditional, Japanese or something in between. It's a tattoo design book you'll come back to every time a client asks for a snake.
