In addition to his multiple #1 hits, another signature symbol for Blake Shelton is the tattoo on his forearm.In fact, the singer himself drew the sketch for the tattoo on his left arm that displays deer tracks in the center of two strings of barbed wire.
As a lifelong hunter growing up in rural Oklahoma, Blake wanted to get a tattoo to reflect his lifestyle. “I’m a country guy from Oklahoma and I thought ‘I’ll get some deer tracks going around my arm, and a band of them,'” he explains to Oprah Winfrey. “It doesn’t mean crap,” he adds with a laugh.
But the deer tracks often get mistaken for a much smaller creature, ladybugs, and the hit singer jokes that he neither he or the tattoo artist were sober when he got the ink.
“He didn’t know how to make a deer track and I didn’t either. I drew him one, what I thought it looked like, and he took that and copied it here,” The Voice coach describes of the process, adding that he got the barbed wire later to “try to distract from the Sugar Smacks or coffee beans that I ended up with,” he quips.
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