Hi… I’m getting a tattoo but I can’t seem to communicate to the tattoo artist exactly what I want so I’m looking for some guidance.
First of all, my tattoo is inspired by a tattoo pic I saw like 6 years ago. It was either and arm or a leg tattoo and there was a girl on it, also a trash-can burning with some strange fire/smoke and far in the background were like silhouettes of either a town or an alley or something like that. It was colored, the girl was in the forefront, had big eyes. The colors were really gradually changing and the shading was very detailed. If anyone has the faintest idea of the pic I’m talking about (since I don’t have it), I’d love it if you could send it to me by any means. I definitely don’t want to copy it, just like the style. Edit – I also think there was a black cat in it and that the girl had a green jacket.
On the other hand, if someone wants to make a layout for my specific tattoo, I’d love to receive any input or work or anything basically 🙂
Requirements – tall gloomy looking guy leaned against a wall or something similar, also kind of an alley thing or silhouette, and any of the following elements incorporated in any way: camera, smoke, deflated or patched up basketball, bass guitar and/or big headphones, rain. I want the atmosphere to be sad, gloomy, dark, cold… It is supposed to be pretty big. Save for a place on my shoulder, I’m free to put it anyway, though I’m shooting for my upper arm or back. It should be very colorful, colors are pretty important to me.
Also, I’d love a recommendation for a really really good artist either somewhere in central/eastern europe (austria, slovenia, croatia, hungary, northern/eastern italy, south germany, serbia, czech republic, slovakia) or portugal, but he/she should be really proficient with using color on the level I’m talking about. Let’s say money is no issue.
And finally, I want to say I’m not good with tattoo talk. I don’t know most of the slang so if you see I’m using a word wrong or you see there is a name for something I’m talking descriptively about, please correct me.
Thank you for everything in advance
Hey there…
I don’t know if this might help you, but there are some pretty nifty sites out there that can retrieve web images based on descriptions, sketches and even other similar images.
One that I used recently to get a tattoo design idea is called Retriever it’s just a free site…
You can literally sketch in an image and it will scour Flickr for similar images. I used it to find an orchid in a specific position. Pretty cool.
I don’t know the URLs to some of the others but a quick Google search will help.
Good luck!
I don’t know if this might help you, but there are some pretty nifty sites out there that can retrieve web images based on descriptions, sketches and even other similar images.
One that I used recently to get a tattoo design idea is called Retriever it’s just a free site…
You can literally sketch in an image and it will scour Flickr for similar images. I used it to find an orchid in a specific position. Pretty cool.
I don’t know the URLs to some of the others but a quick Google search will help.
Good luck!
Thanks, the site is pretty cool even though I couldn’t remember enough details to be able to find the tattoo…
Alternatively have you considered looking at the Neil Gaimann graphic novels for the sandman that would fit the desc nicely.
There is also many sites devoted to darkside anime that may also fit what you are after.
Take Care
Matthew
Sandman is a bit too evil… my guy doesn’t need to be evil but more like sad and mysterious. I’m looking for anne rice vampire dark, not the nightmare on elm street dark. But thanks for the idea, will try to find an interesting comic book hero that’s similar to what I want 🙂
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