Tattoo on the mind

[scott sinner]

I really need to take deliberate pics of my ink. I think my tattoo artist has more pics of them than me. Decent shot of the octopus.

covid hair and all the stars. I still have a lot of space of need to get work on.

oh trilobite….I forgot about you!

 

[TOOL460002]

I have two days (back to back!) booked in April to start my left arm sleeve and two more days in the summer of 2023 to finish, so, yes, patience can be necessary if you want a top notch artist. That said, the four I do have were all my design and only two of those are going to be partially covered up in a full sleeve, so I'm batting 0.500 I guess. Never doing that again. The wrist and forearm are not the best places, pain-wise, but just remember a quality artist will not hurt nearly as much.
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Day one of many for a sleeve/cover-up. Got the outline done. This guy was worth the wait.

 

[jvanoort]

My daughter is a successful tattoo artist and owns her own studio. I never aspired having a tattoo (I alway expected to be one of the last inkless men), but it feels special to have my daughters work on my arm now she talked me into it; I now proudly carry a black-tailed godwit on my upper left arm; I love bird watching and this bird is one of my favorites…

I look at it this way: a tattoo is for life, but, being in my fifties already, it’s really only for half a life now
Also, if at the end of your life you regret your tattoo most of anything, I’d say you’ve done pretty well overall!!!

 

[hbarcat]

About 4 years ago, I started to think about getting tattooed. That was around the time I had my 50th birthday and had never had any desire before that to getting one.

I made a conscious decision to think very carefully about what I might want, and then wait for at least 5 years before committing to it in case I might change my mind.

There is really only one, specific concept for tattooing that I want for myself, and that is to pay homage to my love of physics with a representation of basic equations of nature's laws.

I want to include Maxwell's equations for light, equations describing relativity and quantum mechanics, and also more basic equations for Newtonian physics and thermodynamics.

I feel these go together perfectly as a theme and they can be done in a very compact manner and still look clean because they're only letters and numbers and similar symbols which don't take up much real estate and they don't need any colors.


Examples:

My self imposed wait time is almost up and I'm pretty sure I want to do this, but I haven't decided where I want to put them or how to arrange them so they work together as a unified concept.

 

[J_Bass]

About 4 years ago, I started to think about getting tattooed. That was around the time I had my 50th birthday and had never had any desire before that to getting one.

I made a conscious decision to think very carefully about what I might want, and then wait for at least 5 years before committing to it in case I might change my mind.

There is really only one, specific concept for tattooing that I want for myself, and that is to pay homage to my love of physics with a representation of basic equations of nature's laws.

I want to include Maxwell's equations for light, equations describing relativity and quantum mechanics, and also more basic equations for Newtonian physics and thermodynamics.

I feel these go together perfectly as a theme and they can be done in a very compact manner and still look clean because they're only letters and numbers and similar symbols which don't take up much real estate and they don't need any colors.


Examples:

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My self imposed wait time is almost up and I'm pretty sure I want to do this, but I haven't decided where I want to put them or how to arrange them so they work together as a unified concept.

I think a geometric linear style tattoo would work very well, in your case.

My wife has one on that style, it leaves space and doesn’t impose on itself.

That way you can do a big or medium tattoo without it being to invasive.

You “just” have to find an artist that can do that in an elegant way.

Maybe turn the equations into geometric forms? That way you would still have the equations, just not so obvious, or literal.

A couple examples from my tattoo artist:

 

[buldog5151bass]

To me, here is the criteria:

1. Would you be happy with that on your body for the rest of your life? Your thoughts now may not be the same in 40-50 years.

2. Would your spouse/family like it, including when you are old and Grey.

3. Are you prepared to deal with people who will affect your life (such as bosses) who may have a different view of you (fairly or unfairly) because of the tat?

Remember, this isn't a hair style. It won't grow out.

 

[friskinator]

I don't have any tattoos, but I've noticed that intentionally bad ones seem to be popular with young people these days. Some of them look like they were drawn on with a pen or magic marker by someone with zero skills. I don't get it.