The lifeline would be a good idea, but I think with a lot of names incorporated in a larger tattoo it could looked clustered.

What about just getting symbolic images for each person and incorporating them together? That could leave room for a lot of creativity and some pretty rad designs.

Get your arm finished, if you guys break up because of it, it wasn’t meant to be 🙂

Definitely like the addition of the skulls to the dragon as well as the dragon itself, more realistic that a lot of dragons. Great work

Get something that is symbolic to your relationship with your daughter, or symbolic to her nature.

What about on your rib cage? I feel like if you put the Kraken (sp?) on your shoulder and either junk ship or pirate boat on your chest it could turn out to look like two separate tattoos, I could be well wrong though, but I think if it’s all visible from one angle it would look a lot better.

It’s really hard to tell.. Tribal is tribal, maybe you can try and accent it with other tattoos around it, or maybe some creative scriptures

Diggin it, placement is great, colors are awesome, great tat

What about your rib cage? I think that would be a conservative placement for the first one, which I really dig.. I think it would definitely be an awesome piece but I would try and find a similar picture or just add personal changes

I like it, it’s unlike a lot of other suns I have seen, great work

I agree with Apostle for adding more, like a background of some sort.. Anyways, sick design but don’t worry about it fading over time, think about it like your tattoo is a part of your body (which it is) as your body ages, so will your tattoo 🙂

Thanks for the insight, I go in Jan 25th to get it done, I will definitely upload the finished piece

TooManyNotEnough;77323 wrote:
who are you thinking about going to for the portrait? you could always do some bad ass script of your pets name. I often think good script is better than a portrait. Portraits have gotten lots of “airplay” so naturally lots of people get turned on by them but only a few actually execute a good one. Look forward to…[Read more]

Thanks G, I tried to stray away from typical phoenix tattoos that many people have and I wanted something more “bad ass” looking, I ended up making the original design on photoshop with some other cropped images to try and get it where I wanted

I just got my back piece filled in with red, and I had also heard that it may fade a little more so I just used Aquaphor (or whatever healing ointment) a little more than usual, but not much more, and it healed up very nicely. No real strong fading anywhere

Sorry for getting a little emo on everyone, had a few too many to drink last night 😛

I hope so, I am going in Jan 25th for my next tattoo, so then I will probably talk to him about the phoenix

A local artist Tim Beck from Freedom Ink, I haven’t gone to him with any ideas or anything like that yet because we actually are starting on the next piece, but I’ll probably just end up mentioning it and see what he comes up with.

Looks great so far, when’s the next session?

I will definitely make sure to upload the finished product, again thanks for the compliments

mamajess;77137 wrote:
Wow this is really pretty! What will be done on the last session?

I think that I am going to get some golden or orange tints behind the red feathers to expand on the idea of a true fire phoenix, and thanks for the compliments! The artist did an amazing job