What's going on there? Is there a narrative? Looks like Samuel Beckett's last nightmare.
there's a lot, and we're far from done. it's basically an apocalyptic theme. the skull at the bottom needs finished up, the angel in the middle is inspired by a derek hess painting, then there'll be a soft grey mushroom cloud coming up through the back middle and a swarm of rats out of the skull into a plague doctor i have done on my ribs.
i admit, part of it is i'm kinda addicted to getting them done. i just like going in and having a sitting now and again. after a few months i get an itch.
here's another thing I think about....Tattoos are very popular right now..normal everyday people have slesleeves. this will pass like every trend...and now these people are "generation tattoo" and it's permanent...can't change your skin and say "what was I thinking" like you can with clothes that make you cringe now. you're carbon dated.
that's just it, though. if your reasoning is "oh man tattoos are the cool thing to do, i wanna join the cool kids club" then you're fucked from the get go. i do it for me. you wanna say they look like shit? feel free. doesn't bother me in the slightest.
plus, there's a bit of a personal attachment to tattoos. even if it's not the best looking, the fact is that you can't just put one on like a new shirt. you sit through 20+ hours of needles jabbing into your flesh and that design turns into your baby. flaws and all, it's yours, and something you went through. hell tattoos are like a calendar for some people, you remember where/when you got them and what was up. or in my case, one of mine was done by a friend who shot himself later, so it's like i got a little thing to remember him by.
Those colors still as vivid?
as vivid as i wanted them to be. the greys are going soft, but that was by design. the red still pops out really well.
