Tattoo Designing! Anyone artistic?

[cypher]

Yes I did just do it with PS, not online though, I use photoshop & adobe illustrator for everything these days, I can never find a pen!
I think combining the two is going to be hard unless you want the second one in a very similar style to the first.
I'd go for having it on the other wrist tbh.
It's probably worth spending some time finding a good tattooist though & seeing what they can come up with.

[CPalmer]

I spend 2 years on my tattoo, it was a personal thing. I knew what I wanted I just couldn't combine them. My friend is an art student and she put together a page of images that combined all my elements. I love it. I am thinking of putting a highlight through the word to make it stand out a bit now it's harder to read, but again I'd speak to a tattooist.

[2LittlePuds]

Its so hard. I know what i want, but i dont know what i want - if that makes sense? Lol

Does anyone know a correct term for those pictures that look like one thing but when you look again look like something else?

[ianpallen]

I know what you mean. It is like the 70's tv program Vision On. When the title was designed, They mirror imaged it and it looked like a grasshopper when on its side. A pic in words, but I dont know the actual name for it.

[velma]

I know the thing you mean but don't know what they're called. I'm not sure though, as it's to add to an existing tattoo, if that would work. If you want it on the same wrist & not looking like a list, I would have the S of Scott fill the gap next to Jamie's DOB with the rest of the name below so it looks more like one design that 2 separate things. You could have a vine pattern threaded though the letters to link it all together. That way if you wanted a bit of colour in it, you could have small coloured vine leaves?

[2LittlePuds]

Thats a really good idea velma thankyou, i think that could work quite well. I will do a few sketches with that in mind, i dont know why i havent thought about putting the s there before. I was thinking along the lines of putting scott in between jamie and his dob, but overlapping the top half of scott with the bottom half of jamie, perhaps in a slightly different colour, but im not sure it would work without it ending up a mess!

I really like the ambigrams as well but i dont think it could be changed to do that now. Eeeee, i really wish i would have thought about the 1st one more

[ianpallen]

Originally Posted by 2LittlePuds

Good job you're still with your wife lol i dont think id get anyones name besides my kids, just in case

I have always said I will only marry once.

[2LittlePuds]

But that doesn't necessarily mean you will stay with that 1 person forever. Chances are you will, but you never know what the future will bring, hence me only ever getting my childrens names tattooed

[ianpallen]

True. Me and Rachel have split twice before but we got back together. First time was for 2 weeks, second time was for 2yr 9mths. Too late in life for us now. We are settled.

[2LittlePuds]

I guess you get to the point where youve been with someone so long theyre all you really know, and you have to decide whether you're happy being 'settled' or if you want something more. My mum split last year with her partner of many years (engaged but never married). Now she jumps on a plane to benidorm every chance she gets and parties away like shes a teenager! We dont really get on but it goes to show you never know what's round the corner. I THINK me and my partner are settled, but won't be sure until he puts a ring on my finger. 7 years and still waiting

About the tattoo, if i had vines or something similar running through the text does anyone know if this will bleed into the text and make the letters look funny in time?