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Tattoo design

 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
14:42 / 28.09.07
One of the graphic designers at work helped me work this up a few weeks ago; I'd been looking for a sort of icon I could create to illustrate the codependence of technology and biology in today's mad world; animals evolving to live in man-altered environment, etc.

Here it is:

[External image]

more or less actual size. Left shoulder, probably, to match the London Underground tattoo on my right.

I like it; Kali isn't so crazy about it. What do you think?
 
 
Haloquin
14:46 / 28.09.07
Interesting design, nice idea too.

Little creepy looking but I like the concept behind it.
 
 
Janean Patience
15:01 / 28.09.07
I like it. But even a consensus of a thousand people on the internet isn't as important as the approval of the person you're engaged to, I reckon.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
15:30 / 28.09.07
Hmm. Well, a few calls later, turns out the two best places in town are booked for at least a week. How do people get tattoos on a whim any more?
 
 
Dead Megatron
15:51 / 28.09.07
Industrial Trilobites are cool!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:39 / 28.09.07
It's a sort of future Chad, isn't it? You could get "cyber-Kilroy woz 'ere" inked underneath it...
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
17:10 / 28.09.07
Or inside the sprocket. Whoa.

I don't know what "Future Chad" means, but I imagine it's a lot like my friend Chad in the future. And Chad's all right, so cool.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
18:21 / 28.09.07
[External image]

The chap at the top is a Chad.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
19:20 / 28.09.07
I always thought that was Kilroy, but I guess that wouldn't make any sense, would it?
 
 
Dead Megatron
00:19 / 29.09.07
Would you happen to have that same image in higher res.?
 
 
Dead Megatron
00:19 / 29.09.07
I mean, the tattoo, not Kilroy
 
 
Olulabelle
09:05 / 29.09.07
DM, it's probably not cool to nick other people's tattoo ideas quite so blatantly, dude.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:30 / 29.09.07
In a sense, yes.
 
 
johnny enigma
10:25 / 30.09.07
If you've already got your design sorted and you're totally happy with it, then you probably don't need to go to the best tattooist in town - they might well turn you down as alot of the best tattooists are only interested in doing custom work which they've designed nowadays. You just need to find a tattooist with a good solid reputation who's capable of following the lines you already have, and that shouldn't be too difficult at all. Incidentally, is there going to be any colouring/shading etc? Post a pic back here if/when you get it done.