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Background for my Tattoo
angylbane
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I have a tattoo that I've been working on for the last seven months. It's a half-sleeve, starting at the top of my elbow and going up to the shoulder. I have all of the important pieces on there already, but the artist who is tattooing me said he can't use the background I wanted. He said that due to the shape of my arm, I can't have a solid top or bottom or else it will look skewed. What I need are some ideas, preferably with pictures, of what I could use as a background that fits the theme. Here's what I have so far (also, apologies for the terrible quality of the pictures):
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There isn't much space between each individual focal point of your tattoo. You'll probably have to keep anything tattooed between each one to something simplistic in design or just shading.
spoiler'd for Big McLargeHuge:
edit: or how about just a tile of the viruses from Dr. Mario?
ie, one of the blocks you'd find with a google image search for 'super mario blocks.' Doing one of those 'barbed wire around the bicep' things. Except not super lame
yea this. the indiviudal pieces look ok , but in terms of a unifiying theme as a sleeve, it really was not planned out very well
Honestly I'd forget doing a background and work on doing little fillers. Mario coins, Mega Man health bar etc.
My pieces are pretty close together and my artist just did stars and dots since it was a traditional sleeve.
My ex-girlfriend did that exact same thing. Mine sleeves are solid, but they're Japanese work, so it's different. I don't think traditional American sleeves should be solid.
I'll agree with the others and say that the way the individual tattoos are placed, a background wouldn't really work.
Editted: This is what I'm describing for the background. Basically, the front of the system would be under your tricep where most of your tattoo is covering the top of the system.
Que? not sure what the statement is trying to say.
That American sleeves are traditionally a collection of pieces, while Japanese sleeves are more of a single canvas type of job.
My sleeve is two different parts, one being an allegory of virtues and another that wraps around to my chest and back.
He said traditional. Since the OP's sleeve is basically an 8-bit Sailor Jerry type piece, I can see what Esh is saying.
What do you mean by allegory of virtues? That sounds like an awesome idea for a tattoo.
Majority of my sleeve is of the virtues: Justice, Fortitude, Prudence, and Temperance. They're based on the allegories painted by Luca Giordano, a 17th century Italian artist. You can find his work just by searching for him on the nets.
To go with the topic of the OP, I brought up my tattoo because you can get anything inked on you where it becomes a single piece of work... essentially a sleeve. Didn't mean to come across as dickish, just the idea of tradition just seems hogwash. Tattoos are "permanent" and should be what you want and however you want it laided out.
Having the NES and controllers is a good idea, especially since most of the other ideas I've had would clash with the artwork already done. I'd like to stray away from backgrounds that would cause the pieces already there to seem less significant, to "pop" less. Shading might be my best bet, unfortunately, but I definitely see what you folks are talking about when you say the individual pieces are crammed too closely together.