I didn’t take a lot of pictures, but I did watch a lot of the tattooing this time, which made it seem to hurt less! This one was longer than my red-winged blackbird, started out not hurting as bad but at the end, it was definitely hurting more than my first one.
The bigger butterfly is actually a copy of a butterfly my kids had as a pet 2 years ago. My oldest found Flappy on the side of the road, seemingly uninjured, but she didn’t fly away. They cared for her for exactly one month before she died. Though we have had many butterflies before and since, she is still remembered. I hadn’t thought to use her image for a tattoo, but the artist said to email him some pictures of her, and he used this one.
This was my concept drawing.
It was to have 2 butterflies with a arch of 4 colors going through like a rainbow. The colors represent my kids.
Here is Flappy.
Here is the tattoo, taken while I was still lying on the table right after it was done. I don’t have any other finished pictures of it yet.
Has the first one even healed yet? You just got the brid like a week ago right? 😉
Nice butterflies. I have to agree that the shadows dont look like they all come from the same light source. Might be hard for you to see it upside down. No sweat though. Its not overbearing its just nitpicking.
Nice tattoo with a good story behind it.
Threadjack: is it natural to bruise from a tattoo? Ive never experienced this.
Got the first on on July 9th, so this one was about a month later. It’s really not going to be a monthly thing, promise.
I’m looking at the pictures I have of them, trying to picture the light source. It looks good to me, but I’ll admit I’m not an artist and it’s hard for me to picture those types of things! The 3D was actually bigger than I was imagining it would be, but I’m happy with it overall.
The bruise is like slightly discolored, raised skin about 1/2 an inch to almost an inch around the entire tattoo. It’s not as bad as it was yesterday.
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