Tattoos

Really interesting blog post from TomasTomas

http://tomastomas108.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/ada-1st-session-neckchest-22012011-transfer-and-lines/#comment-440

That's ace, Tenderloin.
What's that type of illustration called in English?

Many of them line art illustrations would be etchings.

Many of them line art illustrations would be etchings.

Go on, Kris.

Show us your etchings!

#carryonhumour

Here's the Rasputin...

Going on the upper inside of my arm, just below the arm pit, was going to have it as one side of a chest piece, but want to think about the overall aesthetic of that first. Bit more detail still to be done, etching above to be given similar treatment...

"...Recently, popular hindu and buddhist symbols appear more as emblems for a branch of the tattooing and body modification community rather than real attempts to connect with the higher-self or understanding a foreign culture. A cultivation of the ego instead of a quest to destroy it!..

...how many people sporting fashionable “arabic writtings” and islamic geometry still cringe at the sight of a mosque or an arab ?"

+1

.Recently, popular hindu and buddhist symbols appear more as emblems for a branch of the tattooing and body modification community rather than real attempts to connect with the higher-self or understanding a foreign culture. A cultivation of the ego instead of a quest to destroy it!

The people I know personally who are "modified" with swastikas are practising with higher self/Buddhism.
However my cousin has went for both Om and and some kind of Arabic writing, and I've yet not seen her having anything to do with both.
Eh.

I only cringe at the sight of Ismaili Shia.

where did you find that multi grooves?
very true.
i think its quite easy to kind of "spot" those people though.
i had a couple of tattoo pictures hanging around in my art book and my R.S. teacher took one looked and it and just laughed. apparently, the symbol in question had no relevance whatsoever etc.

3hrs in, another 3 to go. Stewart Robson at Frith Street. The only uncomfortable bit was near my armpit, bit sharp there to say the least!

Nice, are the next three hours colour?

Thanks! No, I'm sticking with black and grey for this one. The original picture it is from isn't colour either though.

I really, really like that one, Cazakstan.

Are you going to have the moths and butterflies in their taxonomically correct colours?

Too slow!

I think the colours would look incredible, personally...

Haha, thanks. I have a black and grey tattoo on my left ribs, also an Escher picture so this will look better next to it I think. might extend it and have negative butterflies coming off it at the edges/ bottom, I'm not decided yet.

Dogsball is not going to be happy!!!!

where did you find that multi grooves?

Check my link further up the page doofus.

Here's the Rasputin...

Going on the upper inside of my arm, just below the arm pit, was going to have it as one side of a chest piece, but want to think about the overall aesthetic of that first. Bit more detail still to be done, etching above to be given similar treatment...

by lyam:

is that you, that is exactly what I had planned but with rasputin and one of .... as yet unthought.

You got any plans for a chest piece? I got the idea from Lyams Vlad's but thought I'd change it up a little.

not it's not me, it's from lyam's flickr, just as idea/insp. for you. maybe.

It does look good, Like the leaf and dagger under the portraits, need to find another character now...

Ivan the terrible?

hence the link to your photostream!
it came up when I searched for otter tattoo a few days ago...
which is weird, as its a penguin....

That is odd that otter brought up a penguin. I saw the link here and assumed it was a link to either my sprocket tat or pentabike tat.

Just make sure you find a good artist, nothing like a crappy tat to ruin your body.

My hands, by Xam.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T2AEs0YnNvg/TC2eAGvuc8I/AAAAAAAAARY/Cf6OretXdKU/s1600/anddd.jpg

My hands, by Xam.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T2AEs0YnNvg/TC2eAGvuc8I/AAAAAAAAARY/Cf6OretXdKU/s1600/anddd.jpg

Nice clean lines, and the colours are gorgeous!

I always think of tattoos on the hands as been a little extreme for me, but I love those roses.