2 sittings about 12 hours. its tough to get a tiger all the way around a forearm and still have each section of arm interesting. If you put the tiger too vertical then you end up with a lot of dead space on the rest of the arm. The pose is a very traditional one for Japanese tiger tattoos, showing off the chest and the 'roaring at the moon" pose. The legend has it that tigers are such bad asses that they even roar at the moon if they feel it challenges their mastery of the forest.