I’m making this thread to get a few ideas, get some creative juices flowing 🙂
I started on a sleeve a couple months ago, and had nearly 9 hours put into it so far – we started at the wrist and have been shading as we’ve been going up.
The theme is a sort of old-school with a new school twist to it I guess.
So far I have coloured flames, with a big green skull underneath the flames, a voodoo doll on the underside of my arm underneath the flames, a spider-web on my elbow with flames just licking it and blue/green/gold colours in between the flames (kinda looks like peacock feathers).
The emphasis is on colour (so far it’s VERY bright and colourful) and leaving as little skin as possible un-tattooed.
My artist, Mark, filled out part of the paper work for me at the last sitting. The question was ‘What are you getting tattooed today?’ and he wrote ‘Fucked up shit’ (hence the thread name :p)
All I’m looking for is some ideas/pictures that would fit the theme well, that I can add to my arm as I move upwards. Any dark/old-school/twisted, colourful stuff that will work well with flames overlapping parts of them.
If anyone has some pictures of melting clocks too, please post ’em here, as I’d like to incorporate some of those too 🙂
I don’t want to put pictures of the work on my arm so far, as I’d rather wait ’til it’s finished, but if I really have to, I will.
… and if you’ve read everything above this, congratulations, I didn’t mean to write a wall of text!
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Flaming skulls are a really cliche design not very creative.Your obviously trying your hardest to look like a bad ass
Ouch – burn
You will find pretty much every theme in Tattooing has been done to death the challenge is to have “new spins on an old concept” lets see his arm when he is done before we pas judgment
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Alright fine But from what he described in his post Ive already seen designs similar
Here are some things that I found that I like that incorporate color and dark art
Or what about a zombie pin up girl?
http://www.pulpmovies.com/blog/wp-content/zombiepinup.jpg
WOW theres a lot of love going on here….seriously though, play nice boys!
have found a melting clock with some nice blues and golds in:
http://blog.fernandobrito.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/melting-clock-276×300.jpg
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Excuse the flakes, it’s still peeling. I wet it first, for the sake of the picture.
Kcity – point me towards someone who has this EXACT tattoo. Pfft, trying to look like a badass, coming from a guy who wanted to get the Columbine killers portraits tattooed on them!!
Dine – thanks for the suggestion, but I can’t stand Dragonforce, and I already have enough script on my chest and back, I’ve put my foot down and gone against getting any on my arm or else I’ll turn into a book!
Ontwo – I really like that chick, looks awesome, but I haven’t seen any portrait work done by Mark before. If I got her, she’d have to be done really well. I’ll keep it anyway, see what happens.
As for the zombie pin-up girl, that’s a great idea, I’ll keep looking for one that really grabs my attention. The one you posted is great too, I’ll keep that one 😉 Feel free to post more you may find!
Miss_Ivy – Thanks for the picture, that’s what I’m looking for 🙂 I’ll keep it for reference for Mark.
I see you have a spider web on your elbow? Why not incorporate some flesh eating spiders into that? I was going to suggest a Zombie chic as well. Or look to some of the older horror flicks like Dolls and Trick or Treat…..
I LOVE the colors….looks pretty sick so far! Can’t wait to see it finished
Thanks Blue, spiders are on the list, flesh eating ones are a nice touch 🙂
Won’t be finished for a long while yet, Mark’s got a month long waiting list for those who will sit the maximum amount of time he’ll do at one sitting (four hours). What you see there is 2 sessions work, the next session is Jan. 28th, so won’t be completed for quite a few months yet!
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