Welcome fellow Michigander! You definitely have some great artists in that area of the state (here in Grand Rapids, I haven’t exactly been blown away). Hopefully you can manage to upload some pictures of your ink (mistake or not)–I’m sure we’d all be interested in seeing them. Enjoy your stay here!

Wardy;111006 wrote:
You should always get the tattoo where you want to get the tattoo, doesn’t matter what anybody else will think about it. 🙂

It may not matter what anyone “thinks” about it, but there are still a lot of things to consider as to what the best placement would be (pain, canvas size, sun exposure, curvature, wear-and-tear,…[Read more]

If you already know what images you’re looking for, I don’t see what’s wrong with just a simple Google image search. You could also throw the word “tattoo” at the end of the search to see these elements already applied to a tattoo (not to rip-off as you said, but it helps to see what would work or wouldn’t work). If I’m not understanding what…[Read more]

Though the thick, solid black would make a cover-up difficult, I think that because it’s such a simple form that a lot of things could be done to it (that don’t require laser removal). The first thing I thought was that turned sideways, you could have text with a strike-through effect, and the current perpendicular line could be an I, for…[Read more]

Really like the first one, the blue pops beautifully and the lines on the entire arm are super crisp and clean. I can’t wait to see what sort of colors are going to be incorporated into the rest of the piece!

The second one is pretty average to me. Nothing I particularly love, but nothing I particularly hate either. I do think the black shading…[Read more]

Sounds pretty good to me, something like these (with the olive branch obviously)?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/514989583_31333a2261.jpg
http://www.ratemyink.com/images/ul/203/ink-20301.jpeg

Are you planning on it being a color piece? Size?

I don’t think connecting it would be “overkill” and to be honest, it probably wouldn’t look that much different, it’s not a piece-altering addition at all. So if you feel that it needs to be connected (which I can understand), then by all means, go for it–you shouldn’t have to look at your tattoo and feel there is something wrong with it ever.…[Read more]

Ultimately it comes down to what YOU want and what YOUR perspective is of the tattoo. There is nothing “gay” about any imagery/text that you plan to get if you don’t intend it to be “gay.” Your design is clearly meant to be a culmination of your beliefs, so much so that you want them permanently inked into your skin–if you think that…[Read more]

Since we’re putting forth good examples of lions, may I add another by Anil Gupta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUzBtbeSN4o&feature=channel“]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUzBtbeSN4o&feature=channel

Welcome! Hopefully you can figure out how to upload your pics, if I had an iPad, I would definitely help you out!

Well you say that you “like Japanese tattoos” but then go on to say “but…” so I’m not entirely sure what you want. A million things could be done to cover that up. I’m sure we could help you along the way with deciding what aesthetically would be best for the cover-up, but it’s a little silly to draw you up a design without any insight as to…[Read more]

yodaddynukka;110370 wrote:
i dont understand why the best tattoo show was also the most short lived and less hyped?????

Just curious, which show are you referring to?

And yeah, I was astounded at how much of a carbon copy of IM the show is. Wasn’t the very first challenge in IM the cover-up as well? It’s hilarious to see what is essentially…[Read more]

While it’s wonderful that you want to commemorate your significant others achievement, it seems a little silly to want to get something permanent done in a way that accounts for potentially being covered up–defeats the purpose of the tattoo, really. But regardless, a talented artist could cover-up a simple script fairly easily no matter what…[Read more]

Thanks all for the input…

@BananaBread I was definitely worried about it not being recognizable, but at the same time, it’s not one of the most iconic images of him. Someone doesn’t necessarily have to go “ooh, Batman!” upon first look, but as long as they don’t say “that looks nothing like him” then I’m fine. I’ve toyed around with several…[Read more]