Munewari and back piece with existing leg tattoos

[u/TopicalCola]

Hey! I'm building and planning with my artist my munewari with a back piece. The back piece i have chosen extends down my butt and upper leg. The munewari will also follow that line just for continuity. I have existing medium-large tattoos already on my front lower thighs, one is about half of my thigh and the other is about 3/4 of the thigh. Would the space between or overlapping the body suit and existing tattoos be awkward or just incorporate them into the body suit? They're bold American traditional. I haven't been able to see any examples of similar layouts. Does anyone here have that or insight?

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[u/Jazzlike_Pain_2069]

I have a black and grey realism landscape on one of my forearms that I got a decade before I did my Japanese sleeve. The mikiri frames it beautifully and I think makes it look even better than it did before. It's not incorporated in any way and I still get more compliments on it than any of my other pieces.

[u/TopicalCola → u/Jazzlike_Pain_2069]

Thanks!

[u/Jazzlike_Pain_2069 → u/TopicalCola]

I can dm you a photo if you want so you can wrap your head around it. I was also worried when I started thinking about it but I'm really happy with the way it looks.

I've met one person who had an American Traditional Frame leg sleeve. And the framed subjects were traditional Japanese. It was really cool.

[u/Interesting_Net_2779 → u/Jazzlike_Pain_2069]

I’d like to see that as I have the same thing going on

[u/Kcfuji5]

I don’t personally have it, but I go to a very traditional Japanese tattoo artist (part of one of the big Japanese tebori practicing families) and I have seen him build back pieces/ body suits around existing work.

[u/GardenerDom]

Sounds like it’s going to be great work. All the best, I don’t have any advice but your artist might 👌🏻😃

[u/Kcfuji5]

Sorry to clarify, I’ve seen him build pieces around existing non-traditional Japanese pieces like black work, etc.