Getting a tattoo, need some creativity...

**ZackaryCF** · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 899 Location: West Mitten

Alright, I'm getting a tattoo next saturday. I'm getting what most people would recognize as the "Tool eye."

I don't want it in full color, and I don't want it all black, so I'm getting this: http://media.cellfish.com/public/9/4/9/231949/420.jpg and then I'm going to use the color scheme from this one: http://media.photobucket.com/image/tool%20eye/crowrg82/tool_eye1.bmp for the iris, like yellow, green, blue and purple rings around the pupil.

Also, I'm want the text "Prying open my third eye" somehow involved (in this font: http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=capitalis_goreanis&page=1&nb_ppp_old=10&text=Prying+Open+My+Third+Eye&nb_ppp=10&psize=s&classt=alpha).

Basically, my problem, and the point of this thread, is that I don't know how to include the text. I don't want it like "in" the image, but I'm getting this tattoo on my inner forearm, so theres no room to really write it anywhere...so I was thinking of getting the eye on one arm and doing the text vertically up my arm from wrist to elbow on the other arm...but I'm just not sure...

Another idea I had was having the text go around the eye in a circle, but I think it's too much text for it to look good without being too small or scrunched...

So I'm pretty much just asking for creative ideas of ways to somehow integrate the text.

Thanks in advance to anyone able to help me out with this.

**Rickles** · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject:

I'll be glad to help decide what your arm looks like for the rest of your life...

At first I thought, Ehh tattoo. Then I read it's the tool eye and I thought, "Hell yeah that's sick..."

Here is my rendition. Anything you want to change?

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**guitarroker** · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 1993 Location: Iceland

That's ingenious, Rickles. Space efficient and stylish. It would look incredible with the Capitalis Goreanis font.

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**Rickles** · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:45 pm Post subject:

I'm gonna eat and hopefully the OP will be back. I will grab that font and do a few more versions. after he weighs in I can get a better idea.

I can do any color scheme. Adding and subtracting any of them makes for a cool look.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/Ricklessk8/Tool-3.png

This one, I forgot to add text before I upload.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/Ricklessk8/Tool2.png

I will do the final one on a white background. Unless you are black, maybe white ink would work then? Lol.
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