Tattoo Notion

[brynndragon]

I was talking to dragonvpm online when a tat idea hit me: silvery-rainbow dragon scales showing through "torn" skin. No idea how it would be done, or even where it would be on my body (upper arm would work pretty well, as would thigh, but I've a tat idea floating around the back of my head for my thigh already, just waiting for completion at some point). Can't even guesstimate how difficult it would be to do, or how long it'd take. That would depend on how large I'd want - probably not terribly big, large enough for the scales to be decently visible (and enough room to include the torn skin effect). So, anyone know of a good tat artist in the area (by "area" I mean eastern-central MA and southern NH) who could pull off that sort of effect?

Comments

[1muse.livejournal.com]

oooh, that sounds very cool! to get the 'silvery' effect, you may be looking at a lot of grey work with white accents (the body tends to purge white fairly easily, so you may also be committing yourself to a piece that needs lots of touch ups). find somebody skilled in shading/black and white designs...in n.h. i'd reccomend lion's den tattoo in salem. steve there did a bunch of amazing work on me, and i've never seen a bad piece come out of their shop.

[unseelie.livejournal.com]

neat
you just activated several fetishes of mine at once!
just by READING this, and thinking about what it might looks like
i was overcome with lust..

take that how you will ;-)

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

It really seems to be that time of year. I'm just hugely horn in general right now, and a lot of other folk (in fact just about everyone) seem to be the same way. I wish I was heading out to SF right about now, or at least in possession of a car. . .

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

That. Is a way cool design. I wish there were something that obvious for me... I need to point a dragonkin friend of mine towards this post, I'm sure she'll be amused.

Anyway, places that come to mind:
Shoulder
Buttocks
Calves
Hip, maybe trailing around and pointing towards your belly button...

you could do some really interesting things with placement. And I bet this will look hella sexy.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Your comment gave me an extention to the notion: the torn flesh will look as if they were made by claw marks. Which also extends the symbolism in a massively appropriate way. As to where. . . side, shoulder, or belly makes the most sense, I think. I like the idea of across from the hip towards the belly, but I also like the idea of down the belly and down the shoulder blade. Must think more on this. . .

BRYNN!

[jeffgeneric.livejournal.com]

You didn't tell me you moved back to Waltham.

Or maybe you did that on purpose? Eh fuck it. I do random searches on LJ when I'm bored at work.

Re: BRYNN!

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

I would have told you if I'd known *you* were in Waltham ;P. I still have your quick cam, so if you want I can drop it off somewhere (presumably your place of residence) once I get a car (which happens tomorrow, whee!)

Re: BRYNN!

[jeffgeneric.livejournal.com]

Nah don't worry about it. I bought another one a while back, since I didn't think I'd ever see you again.