Tats

Tattoos...they're everywhere. Ross is getting a new one next week. My mother is contemplating one for an upcoming birthday. And it seems everywhere I turn there's either a person donning a gorgeous peice of ink, a parlor with doors wide waiting invitingly or a tv special on the subject.

I want more ink...

Problem is, I'm not sure what I want to get. Eventually I'll start working on a half sleeve for my right arm, but at the moment I'm stuck for ideas.

At least until I started tooling around today. I've been tossing around a few polynesian and tribal designs to reflect the time I'm spending in Hawaii. But I've never been keen on the generic flash images...thorny looking armbands, tramp stamps and the like. However, tribal interpretations of other items...that I could get behind.

For some reason I've been fixated on a few tribal turtle images I've come across. Why a turtle seems so appealing I'm not sure...short of the Hawaii thing. I've also seen a gorgeous tribal manta ray, but it appears to be the logo for a local surf shop. My surfing abilities are atrocious and I am not affiliated with said shop. I don't particularly want to tattoo myself with someone else's logo, even if I were to adapt the illustration into my own.

So what to do...

Comedy and Tragedy came to mind. And after a bit of pencil work this is what I came up with. I do want to find a local artist to clean it up quite a bit. Perhaps change Comedy a smidge...the right side of his face seems a bit...off... And incorporate something around the mask duo. At the moment it feels incomplete. But it is a start. Now where to place it...