neo traditional tattoo with a japanese touch

that was a super nice project that we did about an year ago ,but I just happened to find the photos recently in my computer( and it wasn´t easy:))...the customer came with  the idea that he like to have a sleeeve tattoo (kind of neo traditional)with  lots of  colors ..so,I did some rough sketches and we figured out which elements we will actually use in the tattoo (sugar skull,old ship,roses with diamonds..broken hourglass...in the inside of the arm there ia a two headed raven which I quite enjoyed doing..also the shaking hands with the anchor tattoo on one of them.. .)Since the customer was quite open for sugestions ,I had a lot of freedom about the composition and the colors .We mixed a bit of a japanese style background ..just to keep the flow in the piece and we went for a bit different colors, which seemed to work quite well altogether... the two headed raven in the inside part of the arm added a bit of surrealistic touch and really made the piece a lot of fun...so, enough writing ..there it is...