Hi, I’ve been to 2 tattoo parlors around town (there’s not many in town where I’m from, most people go to a place that’s an hour away) trying to explain my idea to them but neither one can seem to picture what I want, however I don’t find it very difficult. Just wondering if someone could attempt to draw my idea up for me. If so I’ll explain it, but if not then I’d rather not go into all the detail for no reason. Thanks in advance.
Before I went through all the trouble of describing it, I was wanting to make sure that there were even people here who could draw at all. I didn’t know if this site had a lot of artistic tattoo people who could do that sort of thing or if it was just people who liked tattoos and wanted to show off ones they had. Also, I didn’t know if this would even be the right section of the forum or if I needed to go to another area.
Draw it up yourself if you have an idea of what you want.
All I had was a very vague idea and a very, very rough sketch of it. I can’t draw for toffee, seriously, it looked like a 3 Year old had done it 😮
And, to be fair, the final design was nothing like I’d imagined but, it at least got the process started.
Well there’s 2 ways if could possibly be done. The basic idea of both though is to do the James Hetfield tattoo with the 4 poker cards, the numbers representing his birth year. In my case it would represent my graduation year (2014), so if you guys have any recommendation for how to represent that year with cards (mainly because it’s got a 0 in it) then throw it out there. The best I could come up with was 2, Joker, Ace, and 4. The cards will also have some sort of Clemson theme also. But here’s my 2 ideas:
1) I thought about making the joker have a small tiger standing up as if it were a person with a little jokers hat on his head. Then at the top, instead of flames, having a tiger crouched down as if it were stalking prey with it’s mouth open. Then at the bottom in the scroll writing “Clemson University”.
2) The other version would be to keep the same bottom part with “Clemson University” in the scroll, but rather than having the tiger on top, it would be tearing through the cards, lunging out towards the viewer.
The tattoo shops that I went to didn’t even attempt to draw it (acted like they didn’t comprehend it) mainly because they don’t draw unless you’re planning on getting your tattoo there. And the closest place that I would even consider getting one is an hour away, and I’m not making that drive just for a drawing.
And if you’re not willing to drive an hour for a tattoo it shows you’re not serious, and that’s probably why you can’t find a shop that wants to deal with you.
I didn’t say I wasn’t willing to drive an hour for a tattoo. I said I wasn’t willing to drive an hour for a DRAWING of a tattoo…one that once I see it actually drawn out I may not even like. And I don’t expect them to work for free, but the shops around here basically want you to commit to getting the tattoo if you want them to do anything at all. But I am kinda hesitant to get one now because if it turns me into an asshole like most everyone I’ve heard from so far then I don’t know if I could take it.
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