A few years ago I blogged about tattoos when I discovered that someone in the USA had tattoo'd one of my illustrations onto his body (see it here) but two years later I still haven't decided on what tattoo to have.The problem I face is that, being a designer and illustrator (and an annoying perfectionist), I plan to design it myself, but I cannot decide what it should be of, how big, what colour, etc ... and when I eventually rock up to the tattooists and ask them to copy the tattoo I've designed EXACTLY as I've designed it, then I expect they'll either add their own quirks and trademarks or they'll add spelling 'mistakes' or go over the lines due to the lack of creative freedom I've given them.
In the meantime, at the end of last week I received a package in the post that contained a handful of temporary tattoos of the winged logo I designed for Harper Voyager at the end of last year (see the previous post below).
Temporary Tattoos are great — rebellion on a very small scale with a limited time span. So I wore one for a few days to get a feel of it and when the rest of the extended family turned up to visit, I branded the entire family with tattoos too. So for a few days in May the extended Horne family, from the ages of 2 to 71 , were temporarily labeled property of Harper Voyager.
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They always say once you get one, you'll want to get more. I got my first one when I was 19 and never really wanted another one until a few months ago - must be the turning 30 thing. Anyway, I keep going back and forth on what I should get and WHERE I should get it, since I want it in a unique place, and a place you can't easily see. In the end, I'll probably just stick with the one.
Ha! Glad to hear you have the same problem ... but at least you've got one already ...
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