Orangutan with Axe Traditional Calf — tattoo by Mario Desa

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An old school tattoo of orangutan, plus smaller details: axe, placed on the calf. Done in full colour. By Mario Desa at Great Lakes Tattoo.

Key facts

• Tattoo by: Mario Desa at Great Lakes Tattoo, Chicago, United States
• Style: Traditional (Old School) 100%
• Shows: Orangutan 75% · Axe 20% · Cigarette 5%
• Placement: Calf
• Colour: Color
• Pain here: Mild, 2 of 5; healing: easy

Details

• What makes it recognisable: subject 50 · color 35 · style 15
• Visibility here: visible in shorts
• Tags (each opens similar tattoos): Traditional (Old School) · Ape & Monkey · Axe · Calf · Color

How we know

• Photo: published by Great Lakes Tattoo on greatlakestattoo.com; on TatSeek since 2026-09-30, with credit and a link back. The work belongs to the artist. Image rights
• Description and tags: TatSeek Vision Scan, an AI reading of each photo (Claude, by Anthropic) under written rules and a closed tag vocabulary, checked against photos labelled by hand. Shares of the picture are visual estimates, not measurements. Nothing about the person in the photo is recorded. How tagging works (Vision Scan v3)