Hi guys,
While I am still mulling over this idea I was hit by another inspiration by looking through vintage cloisonné enamel jewellery (I happen to collect earrings and brooches of that style).
One day before I got my first tattoo I had a misbehaving yet harmless mole cut out of my right shoulder cap and the area has healed up quite nicely. I am thinking of covering the whole shoulder cap up with something along these lines:
Obviously the linework would nee to be changed to b/w and cleaned up and I’d tweak the colours a bit. Apart from that any thoughts?
Regards,
Asenath
I agree with you and think the left one is probably a cheaper version of the right one, they sometimes did that. I only put both up because you can see the outlines a bit better on the left one. The right one appears to be slightly curved at the top and bottom.
Probably not, I really like the simplicity of it. Might add a few highlights to give it a bit of a stylized feather pattern but will have to print it out in its final size to decide. There’s not a whole lot of space on my shoulder cap :S
I like the simplicity of the design, but I’m not crazy about the colors. I don’t think they pop. I like the greens and blues a lot, and I think the yellow is unusual, but I like it. But together it just doesn’t seem as bright as a peacock feather should be- it’s like a muted version. Is that what you were going for?
I would add some purple, or make it more jewel-toned.
Thanks for all the input guys!
This is still a very rough first draft, I’ll have to print it in the final size to see how much detail can be added… learned my lesson from the betta!
I’ll definitely add some more shading though, especially highlights to emulate the single “strands”, these are just the base colours
– About the yellow colour – this one is interesting, I actually looked up a few existing peacock feather tattoos to see which colours are doable and which aren’t but I guess I’ll have to go more reddish then?
http://tattoostattoostattoos.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/peacock-feather-tattoo_bkgjq_5965.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/380006862_e22287974e.jpg
http://www.jammerdesignz.com/images_tattoos/scalejpg.pl?xscale=640&yscale=600&jpg_source=emilyfeather2.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/149126590_b57982239f.jpg
http://whi.s3.leg.thumbs.lg1x8.simplecdn.net/20090309223744.jpg
UPDATE: After meeting Tommy, the owner of Belfast City Skin Works a while ago at a friend’s art exhibition I dragged my sorry derriere to the studio today to make an appointnemt. I mean, it’s at least two weeks. Right? Wrong.
They have some guest artists over at the moment, including a Swedish girl who does a lot of olf school / new school stuff according to the portfolio I got to look at. I am sure she can improve the piece to look decent.
Oh yeah, the appointment is on MONDAY 3PM!
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