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    Post awesome things you have been doing recently

    in Random Crap

    Posted

    in about 10 days my girlfriend and I will hitchike up north to visit @Johannes again in Gothenburg. So im pretty stoked for that! We also made plans for later in the summer to hitchhike from Budapest in Hungary through Czech, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania to the northern part of Estonia and back to Germany from there.

    What's also pretty sweet is that I found a way to embed a paypal donate button on my hitchiker facebook page so I hope that will generate a little bit of extra income for on the road. All and all im really excited for the next few months!

    Have fun!

    Book tattoo

    in Tattoo Advice

    Posted

    @ johannes- Something dark with Lovecraft would be fun.

    Michael Moorcock's Elric blowing the horn at the end of the world would be interesting...until the tattoo aged and it ends up looking like David Bowie playing a saxophone. Cheesy fantasy tattoo, whoo!

    I feel like Gaiman's stuff would lend itself well to tattooing. The flying ships in stardust (catching lightning), or playing with the pantheon in American gods.

    You wouldn't have enough room for an accurate Stephen King book.

    Traditional with moby dick.

    Darn it! I can't wait to get my next tattoo!

    Book tattoo

    in Tattoo Advice

    Posted

    I have a tattoo that is probably fairly similar to what you're thinking of:

    seth_wood_tattoo_-_session_2_019_thumb.jpg

    This is Seth Wood's interpretation of the Necronomicon and it goes from my shoulder to about an inch or so above my elbow. He initially did it without the illustrations in the book, but when I was at the shop at a later date he saw it and said that it needed that little bit extra so we booked that and he put those in. I wanted the 20-sided die, the other things were his idea and freehanded in. I am especially stoked on the tiny little Baphomet. It could be covered by a quarter, total fine line madness there. Because they're so detailed, I'm not sure how well the book illustrations will age, but they're a little bonus and even when they fade and blur together they aren't going to greatly change the integrity of the tattoo.

    So yeah, it can be totally workable though I think you'd need to find the right artist to be able to pull it off properly.

    He rolled a natural 20 when he made that tattoo.

    Drawing for beginners/trying to ejumicate yourself

    in Tattoo Advice

    Posted

    Greetings! I lack the ability to draw a straight line, nor could I tell you what differentiates decent art from garbage half the time. In the past I could have given a damn less, as the repercussions of this just resulted in tacky art on the walls and getting my ass beat in pictionary. When it comes to tattoos and looking for good artists though, this lack of education can perhaps result in some poor choices.

    To remedy this, I have been going through the threads here (http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/2396-what-makes-good-tattoo.html ), and making baby attempts at drawing (seriously, it's like a t-rex trying to type or do pushups). I have come upon a couple of youtube sites and books that have been helpful. I'm sure this will be baby stuff for the real artists in here, but hopefully for the layman who has time on their hands it will help identify the good from the bad, give them something productive to do, and also appreciate the work that goes into the process.

    Proko - YouTube

    5-Pencil Method

    and for books

    The Big Book of Drawing: András Szunyoghy: 9783848002498: Amazon.com: Books

    If anyone has any other suggestions on books, videos, etc for the uber green horn, I would love to see them!

    General Movie Thread

    in Random Crap

    Posted

    Watched this recently too, great film!

    I've just started checking out anime movies, I'd never seen ANY anime before so it's like uncovering a whole new genre.

    Some of the ones I liked are Spirited Away and Howls Moving Castle.

    You are speaking my language sir :).

    The first one to pop into my head would be Ninja Scroll.

    Complete newbie to LST and forums!

    in Initiation

    Posted

    Map out the general elements that are important to you, get your reference material together, then approach the appropriate artist. Listen to their feedback, and make a plan for the tattoo. Knowing what you want is great, but the more constraints you throw at the artist, the less creative they will be able to be.

    Your responsibility is to do the homework and find the right artist for the job. Their job is to take the idea and make it look as awesome as possible.

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