Artistic people... can someone help me design a tattoo?

crimzy

crimzy

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I need some assistance here, hopefully someone can help. Unfortunately I have little, if any artistic abilities.
Here is the idea:
I currently have a tattoo of my first daughter's hebrew name (with hebrew letters) vertical down my side. Now I will be adding my 2nd daughter's hebrew name. I am looking for an artistic way to frame the letters in. I'm thinking something tribal but it has to be relatively subtle... I do not want it to take away from the letters. I also don't want something too "hard". The tattoos are very personal to me and I don't want to toughen them up... just want to add an artistic touch. Also, it's gotta be black.
I've been looking at tattoo images for a while and haven't found anything yet. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
sepulatian

sepulatian

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I have been looking for someone to do mine for quite some time. I need someone that can actually do it right. They are permanent and not something that I want a botched job on. True artists are hard to find.
Good luck with yours crimzy!
 
crimzy

crimzy

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Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/2957391
Does the whole thing have to be black or just the lettering?
The design has to be black too. Personally I don't like colored tattoos on guys. But that's just a matter of personal taste...
 
gypsana

gypsana

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Do they share have a common letter in Hebrew? Where do you plan on placing the next name. That can help me visualize a design plan. I can use my art degree here!
 
crimzy

crimzy

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Originally Posted by gypsana
http:///forum/post/2957950
Do they share have a common letter in Hebrew? Where do you plan on placing the next name. That can help me visualize a design plan. I can use my art degree here!

Yes, they share the "yud", which is the 4th letter (the small one). My other daughter's name has 3 letters, ending with the "yud". I was thinking of placing the other name next to this one towards the front but I am not set on this...
 
reefraff

reefraff

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Hard to do much with the same color without losing the letters in the design.
You could maybe have them make it up to look like it is written on parchment or something. Something like the way they create the reproduction maps and historical documents.
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Gabriel, it think right? No idea on Hebrew, just pulled an alphabet on google and translated, I think... Just wanted to make sure you researched that, before you got it. Unlike some home-boy in rural Georgia that's got Japanese-script across the back of his civic that he think means one think, is acutally something else...
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Originally Posted by crimzy
http:///forum/post/2957591
Here you go...
Gabriel, it think right? No idea on Hebrew, just pulled an alphabet on google and translated, I think... Just wanted to make sure you researched that, before you got it. Unlike some home-boy in rural Georgia that's got Japanese-script across the back of his civic that he think means one think, is acutally something else...
 
crimzy

crimzy

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Originally Posted by AquaKnight
http:///forum/post/2958112
Gabriel, it think right? No idea on Hebrew, just pulled an alphabet on google and translated, I think... Just wanted to make sure you researched that, before you got it. Unlike some home-boy in rural Georgia that's got Japanese-script across the back of his civic that he think means one think, is acutally something else...

Gavriela actually... but you were close. The only difference between the "bet" (b-sound) and the "vet" (v-sound) is a single dot in the center of the letter in the "bet". Also, vowels in hebrew appear below the letters and often are not included in certain types of writing. If you don't speak hebrew, you would have no way of knowing that there is an "a" sound at the end of the name.
 
gypsana

gypsana

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This is just one idea. Sorry crappy PS but I did it in a hurry. I was thinking the first name under the tree as shown then the new name under the left tree. Hope this kind of helps.
 
crimzy

crimzy

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Originally Posted by gypsana
http:///forum/post/2958218
This is just one idea. Sorry crappy PS but I did it in a hurry. I was thinking the first name under the tree as shown then the new name under the left tree. Hope this kind of helps.
I really like that!! If you have any other ideas I'd love to see them but that's pretty much exactly what I was looking for...
 
gypsana

gypsana

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Everything else I have thought of does not stand out like this one or look right. But if one does I will post it. I am glad you liked it.
Also if you take it to your tattoo artist they might be able to add to it for ya.
 
crimzy

crimzy

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Originally Posted by Oceansidefish
http:///forum/post/2958303
You could always frame it in Chalom art...Like Chalom Zayin
http://hebrewart.com/chalom/chalom-zayin.html
I really like those... but I don't want to change the letters for this one. By the way, the Zayin is a different letter... it's not in the name. Thanks.

Originally Posted by gypsana
http:///forum/post/2958218
This is just one idea. Sorry crappy PS but I did it in a hurry. I was thinking the first name under the tree as shown then the new name under the left tree. Hope this kind of helps.
I have been thinking a lot about this and I am going to go with this design. But I wonder if you designed it on a program where changes can be made. I will need to make it taller (but I can probably do that on a copier). I was also wondering if the branches could be thinned out a bit and if they can overlap at the top into one mesh of branches/leaves.... if the trees can be pushed closer together. Also, I am debating if I want to keep the fruit or get rid of them??

Thanks again. Any more thoughts.
 
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