the tattoo thread...

you have at least one or you know someone who does.

maybe you hate them and wouldnt get one on a dare or you simply havent worked up the courage to get one...

well this is the tattoo thread. its purpose? to discuss tattoos in general, their history, the reason behind each tattoo you get, why you got a tattoo to begin with, etc.
also this is to help those who may not be fully aware of the facts of tattoos become a little more informed. showing of pics is encouraged as is tattoo designs/ideas. and maybe if some of the artfully inclined are in a good mood they might be be willing to help someone find/come up with a tattoo design. i'm working on my a design presently...i might show it when i'm done.

as for me i have three tattoos currently and i'll probably have a fourth in about a month...maybe less. i love tattoos, i think they're addictive.

i know at least a couple other members on the board have tattoos (one has a screaming chicken from a trans am) so i want to see some people hitting this thread soon!


BTW the screaming hand to the left?? thats a future tattoo design, probably gonna be number five...not sure yet.

[Edited on 1-1-2004 by ThePrankMonkey]

all i have is mi vida locca dots on my wrist.

I want to get Wicked on my shoulderblade, not sure of the lettering style but something kick ass.

been thinkin about this for a while...

I've got 6.
This will be my 7th, hopefully within the next month or two.
Now that I know someone who "knows someone," the money thing won't be so much of an issue. These things are damned expensive!!
Can we talk about piercings here, too? I've desperately wanted a labret piercing for years now, but with my job & all ... well, that'd be a bad place to get a piece of steel ripped out of.

-B.

Looking for my 2nd one...want a dragon with something celtic in its paw...trying to find one though!

My first one is an Ankh with with a celtic triluminory in the base...it has spikes where the loop meets the stock and 3 holes that have been coloured in turquiose.

I love my tattoo...tickled like hell and i cant wait to get this one done...i'll post it when i find it.

The history of mine is i love egyptians designs to i wanted to use than an my own heritage so TribalBodyArt in edinburgh came up with it and i got it done.

Prank...looking good and canna wait to see it!


Lysergic...La Vida Loca dots???

Have a good one
Gryff

I'm getting a tattoo soon. It will probably be the JRR Tolkien rune framed in leafs and branches. I want to design the sourunding leafs and stuff myself, to make it a bit more original.

Tiger claw on stomach.
Japanese characters (Fighting the Sea) on right side of chest.
Japanese characters (Tree Becoming Light) on left shoulder.
Tribal tiger's head with a spine made of roots on left bicept.
Death/rebirth snake with Japanese characters (Satori Plague) in the center on right bicept, Japanese character (Demon) on right shoulder and tiger stripes from my shoulder to my elbow.

Cool thread !!

I have chaos arrows on my left shoulder. It's just black for now, but I want to have blue energy surrounding it.

I also want to get a barcode tattoo on my neck or inside wrist. I've been fascinated by barcodes for years.

My wife has piercings and one tattoo.

Tongue, eyebrow, and as of New Years Eve...a set of npple rings.

I've been working on a tat for an ATS member (mulberryblueshimmer) for a month or so. I'll post it here with her permission. I have designed about a dozen of my friends tattoos over the years. I'll try and get some pics uploaded of them. I wish I could do the actual ink myself, but I've heard it's extremely difficult.

bashee sure we can discuss piercings as well since most tattoo shops have piercers (or is that piercists?) on site.


here's the picture of the design i'm working on...




i'm converting it into color presently and is going to take me awhile. i'll show a pic of it once i'm done coloring it in. it was a board i had years ago and i sorta know the guy that owns the company that made the board...well i asked him for the graphic so i could get it made into a tattoo...and he doesnt have it in color so i'm having to color it in...and remembering the colors isnt easy, its been years. i always thought it'd make a nice tattoo...i'll find out soon.

yeah, i always wanted the barcode wickedsix combo

have the barcode with wickedsix underneath and it and some lines seperating each letter wanted that a long time ago but I just never do it.

#ing grand master procrastinator i am

ive seen a few barcode tatts aswell as blade glyphs and they looked a mess because they were so fine just go to a good tattooist

[Edited on 2-1-2004 by SE7EN]

Im getting my first in 7 days...The picture of the eye with two pupils is going to go on my forearm...

I also want the inscription of the One Ring around my wrist.

heres my final choice.

I'm gonna get it blue and turquoise and where the small chinese character is...i'm gonna get a Trilum or a celtic design there instead.

tattoo

i cant figure out how to paste it in and i cant download as its too big...if u wanna closer look i will email it to u

[Edited on 2-1-2004 by Gryffen]

That picture of an eye with two pupils reminds me a little of this doll I have from the 1940s . It is called pretty peepers and there is a button on it's stomach that you press to change it's eyes from brown to blue , but because it's old the eyes get stuck halfway between sometimes.
I think its a cool picture.
I have just 1 small tattoo of a butterfly on my shoulder, but would like another on my foot somewhere but not until I come up with something that I'm gonna be happy to live with.

Five tats (so far) arranged in two scenes.

All Jay Ward characters. Boris & Natascha passing a bomb back and forth...and Dudley Do-right saving Nell Fenwick from Snidley Whiplash.

Peabody & Sherman (each arm) next.

I love the understatement bubble gum punk of Jay Ward. "Popular" counter culture... under the radar.

If you don't "get it"...good. Most aren't supposed to.

I'm going to get this one tattooed within the next weeks on my biceps

BTW: banshee great design

[Edited on 2-1-2004 by Salem]

Originally posted by darklanser
I've been working on a tat for an ATS member (mulberryblueshimmer) for a month or so. I'll post it here with her permission.

to darklanser for doing it too........

well when dark posts it you'll see the finished graphic...

I'll post a pic of it inked when I get it done.

I love Stargate sooo much I got the glyph on my shoulder blade:

How the hell did i know some Gater was going to get a glyph on his body!

I'm surprised it wasnae the whole address!

*braw though*

Ok...here is mine




I'm getting it done in about 1 mnth...gotta see how much it'll cost and get the colours right and choose the celtic design for the tail.

here's a recent update on the work i've been doing with my design...coloring it while keeping the curves looking nice isnt easy!





i'm using solid coloring, no shading or highlighting so saving it in a gif format screws up the effect i'm going for. bitmap is the format i'm using to color it in with. saving it as a bitmap doesnt distort the colors, which is good because i got tired of going back and trying to fix the distortions when i was using a jpeg format...ugh!

anyway there you go, its not done...and purple background isnt part of the design, i just got tired of looking at a white background. any opinions???