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Er, that is my leg heh. That was much of the point of the edit. That leg has been there right from the start, too, but I left it out of the images I posted so as not to confuse things.
I got it by taking a photo and drawing an outline of my leg, from that photo. That’s why it’s quite so skinny (to my shame). The ‘resort’ was to change the size of the tat relative to the leg, since I didn’t like how it looked where it was.
It sounds like I’m going to have to work on the water at the bottom though, given you thought it was wings.
Thanks for the feedback though, much appreciated 🙂
I’m afraid you’ve lost me rather, but I’d really like to understand what you mean by ‘not drawn for the place it’s going to go’.
On both my planned pieces so far, I’ve tried to use an image of the body part as shape reference and guidelines, but by the sounds of it that didn’t work here. Can you give me any clues why it’s off?
(As for running with the idea, I’m alright with mods to the shape of it, but the idea of getting my own art is pretty important to me unfortunately. I can compromise, but I can’t give the whole thing over :/ )
((I should add that I’ve entirely scrapped the idea of it being two parts, and decided to just go with the serpent on the calf))
EDIT:
Resorted my reference outline (taken from my own leg) and I can rather see what you mean – as far as I can tell, the water needs to flow towards the front much more.
Completely different style to what I was originally intending, but:
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Jlin: Nice to get a bit of confirmation on that, the top left was probably my favourite too, though I’m keeping 3 in mind. xD
Time to neaten it up and keep saving >.<
Thanks so much to everyone for the advice 🙂
If you really don’t like the idea of something large, how about having something more parasitic-looking than interior? I’m no biomech artist, but the idea interested me, so here’s a rough-ish version based on yours that you might be interested in:
Jlin: Niddhogg is usually depicted as red, but I can see what you mean, it does look awkward. I’m going to mess around with colours a bit and see what I can do, maybe put up a few smaller images of different versions.
Poesy: I could probably compensate for the lack of perspective by amping up the greyscale shading. I like that idea a lot.
Back to the drawing board! (Literally 😮 )
Doesn’t help that never having drawn a tattoo before, I’ve no real idea how to colour one.
Best attempt (not particularly neat, that’s easy to fix):
Fingers crossed this latest version will clear up what’s going on at the bottom, or else I have a lot more work to do, heh.
As for colour, I wasn’t planning on getting any really (I have light skin, black will show up very well).
If I were to, I was more thinking along the lines of brown/green/gold (and probably red on the dragon), I wouldn’t know how to put bright colours into something like that xD ((That and for my sins, being a student, it’s going to take me a good while to save up the rest of what I’m likely to need to get it done))