ZylonBane on 1/6/2007 at 14:24
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
Hey, wanna hear something
else a tattooed person might say?
I have an inkling I'm about to.
Gingerbread Man on 1/6/2007 at 14:50
Personally, I don't think any of the ideas tossed about in this thread so far (with the exception of maybe a highly-stylised glyph (not really) or Trixsta Flower) would make good tattoos at all. Not unless you were willing to spend more than a few hundred dollars, get it done slowly and properly over the course of many weeks, and had it take up your entire back... which I think would end up looking dreadful regardless of the tattoo artist's skill.
Design is design is design, and there are additionally certain particular rules that govern tattoo design. Not the least of which is the fact that the medium generally does not lend itself well to fine detail in the long run.
I'm also of the opinion that, from a design pov, you need to match the design to the canvas... in other words, the overall contours had better flow with the shape of the muscles you're putting it on, or it's going to be a bit like a square carpet in a round room. Complex scenes, regardless of how they turn out, will not match the space unless redrafted specifically for that purpose. Otherwise it'll just look like someone drew on you.
Also, I have possibly once or twice seen a tattoo that incorporated a human being that looked better than something I scribbled in the margins in high school. So the odds of ending up with a decent, detailed, and resilient image -- at least as I have calculated them -- are poor.
I can't imagine ever getting a game-themed tattoo, myself. It has that double-prong of "transient affection" and "not so much decorating your body as drawing on it".
But hey. I do what I like, y'all do what you like. This is the nature of the world.
Schwaa2 on 1/6/2007 at 15:17
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
People who get tattoos are so pathetically cute, blithely assuming that what they like now, they'll like FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
Yes mom.
R Soul on 1/6/2007 at 15:31
He does have a point. The tattoo should be vague enough that it doesn't make you cringe if after 15 years you've grown tired of Thief. Try to image you had grown tired of it, and then somebody saw the tattoo and asked what it was. Would you really want to say something like "It's based on a computer game I liked back in 2007, where you play a Thief whose problems can always be solved by stealing things"?
I suggest getting a tattoo that can represent Thief or can represent something that other people can understand. Say, a bow and arrow or a sword.
Dark Burrick on 1/6/2007 at 18:59
You could always have a simple tasteful 'V', for Voleur on the right shoulder.
c130 on 1/6/2007 at 19:01
If I had a V, it'd be for Vendetta, or Victory (1984). :p
sparkle_motion on 1/6/2007 at 20:02
Or the show. :)
Yes I get R Soul's point completely! But if its obscure you can just tell people its a private meaning. It will drive them crazy. :)
Oh you guys are making me want a tat. :)
jasee on 2/6/2007 at 15:20
Quote Posted by sparkle_motion
Oh you guys are making me want a tat. :)
Er, dont be impulsive ... its a bad idea when it comes to tats - I once knew a bloke that had a parrot perched on his todger - seriously... (a tat I mean)
1:He said it REALLY hurt,
2:He said that because of 1, he couldn't use it for a while ...
3:It looked more like a sparrow - yes - he showed me:laff: :laff: The tatooist must have been pissed!!
c130 on 3/6/2007 at 19:19
I know a guy - a friend of a friend kinda thing - who got his first tat done when he was so drunk that he couldn't remember anything the next morning. He just woke up and realised he'd gone and got a tattoo whilst inebriated. It was an apple core over one of his shoulderblades, and it's now his favourite. :D
