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Tattoo Design Help!

Angel

Angel

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Tattoo Design Help.

So for a couple years now I have been thinking of getting a tattoo ...but just can't find the right one...Recently I came across this design and I kind of like it. Except the fact that it is a Butterfly...
So can anyone help me keep the same design without the butterfly....

Here it is...

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And...

I removed the butterfly and came up with this....


I need to fill it ...something in the middle....

Help! :teeth

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And make the wings and surrounding design more tribal-like with sharper corners something like...

(ignore the gray vertical stripes, they're interference from the website I stole the image from.)

Put something Angelic in the middle.

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I say stay away from the trendy ass tattoo and do something original. I'm about 1/4 covered and before I commit, I look at that for a whole year. If it still appeals to you after that, get it.
 
westie said:
I say stay away from the trendy ass tattoo and do something original. I'm about 1/4 covered and before I commit, I look at that for a whole year. If it still appeals to you after that, get it.
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I agree with you. Just so you know, I have been thinking about it for almost 3 years now. The only reason I don't have one yet, it is because I have not found "THE" one.

At this point I know I want wings, I liked the first one I posted above but it is not quite right.

I was hoping to get more "Artistics" responses and go from there.

It will have to be perfect before I get it done. That is also why I am not at a tattoo parlor trying to have them design it for me. I want to look at it, with no pressure and not have to decide on the spot.
 
Angel I know you want the freakin butterfly, its ok to admit it.

The picture in your avatar even shows a girl with a butterfly tattoo. clearly you are subconsciously drawn to it.

Temple Tattoo and Tattoo 13 in Oakland both do excellent work, maybe the best in the bay right now.
 
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PM Inky on the boards, she is a tattoo artist and she had some cool pics up in the photos section the other day.
 
westie said:
I say stay away from the trendy ass tattoo and do something original. I'm about 1/4 covered and before I commit, I look at that for a whole year. If it still appeals to you after that, get it.
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I agree, tattoos are so much more interesting when you ask someone about it and they can give a big explanation.

Then again, I think girls are allowed a certain quotient of "sexy" tattoos that don't necessarily have meaning.
 
mercurial said:
Angel I know you want the freakin butterfly, its ok to admit it.

The picture in your avatar even shows a girl with a butterfly tattoo. clearly you are subconsciously drawn to it.

Temple Tattoo and Tattoo 13 in Oakland both do excellent work, maybe the best in the bay right now.
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Funny :laughing.

NOPE I don't want the butterfly in fact I am liking this one...

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Owensdad said:
PM Inky on the boards, she is a tattoo artist and she had some cool pics up in the photos section the other day.
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I have a month ago. She does not have any Angel's related tattoos. She did say I should go to her shop ....
 
You're going to have better luck going into a shop and talking to artists. Most artists will custom draw artwork for you and modify it as you wish.

You might think twice about the lower back/ass tattoo. Coming from someone with a few tattoos, and this is just my personal opinion, they're really not all that sexy. If anything they usually make the girl look trashy. And no, I don't have anything against women with tattoos, I find women with full sleaves incredibly attractive.
 
yea but come on, full sleeves are a big commitment.

A benign lower back tattoo says "hot girl trying to dabble in being a bad girl" while full sleeves says "tattoo freak punk rocker that never wants to live the normal life". you gotta think about this from a social standpoint :laughing :laughing

hell doesnt the word "stigma" literally translate to tattoo?
 
I think that tattoo across the upper part of her back would be much cooler.. Thatch is right, lower back tattoos are played out and come off as a little trashy..
 
Angel - screw the little itty-bitty design, go for LONG tribal-style 'pinions' going down your back from your shoulderblades all the way down --- longest ones end at mid-thigh.

if you're gonna be an angel, don't stop at cherubim, go for seraphim the whole way. Shoot, a couple extra 'feathers' from the shoulderblades up over the shoulders and down the arms would be trippin' as well, and/or wrapping around ribs to the front.

Right Thatch?


(no foolin' it'd be a LOT of inkwork, and painful as hell, but it'd definitely tell folks who you were.)
 
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