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Help Me, People With Better Google-Fu!
Aug. 13th, 2012 10:14 pmAll righty, then.
All of you folk who told me that one tattoo would never be enough, and that they're somewhere between Pringles and heroin in the 'once you start you can't stop' spectrum? You were absolutely right.
I love my pawprints, and I adore knowing that they're there, and seeing them and showing them off. But... it's been a couple of years, and I'm feeling the urge to body-mod again, and I just can't stop thinking about it. It's been on my mind for most of a year now, and I've been noodling around with images and concepts, and I've had the same idea for most of that time, so I'm feeling pretty safe about moving forward.
There's just one problem. I can't find a picture of exactly what I want. And I'm a horrible artist (stick figures are about the extent of my skill), and my google image searches aren't quite geting me what I need. So, I'm opening this up to more (and more talented) folks.
I want... hm. This is going to sound both incredibly vague and incredibly specific at the same time, but such is life. I want something green and leafy, and living, at the same time. The image in my head is that of a dragon, but admittedly, that's because most of the images I find for just "tree spirit" or "nature spirit" are naked women, and that's not quite what I want to have on my thigh for the rest of my life.
Unfortunately, most of the images I find when I look for tree dragons, or leaf dragons, are 1) black and white, 2) vaguely sinister, or 3) cartoonish, and I don't want any of those things. I want something green and colorful, graceful and beautiful, and... if not realistic, at least not cutesy or cartoony. Not Asian; that's not my paradigm. And not just a tree, or a dragon in a tree; I want something that I can.... oh, God, this sounds so pretentious when I type it out, but something that symbolizes both my bond to living things and to nature and green growing things, in one image.
Honestly, the aesthetic of what I want, image-wise, is a leafy sea dragon, just less aquatic and more land-plant-y. Somewhere between this and this.
So - anyone with better searching skills than mine want to hunt this down for me? Or, any amazing artists out there want to try their hand at coming up with such an image? I promise eternal gratitude, pictures of the finished project, and, if it's truly awesome, negotiable rewards of your choice....
All of you folk who told me that one tattoo would never be enough, and that they're somewhere between Pringles and heroin in the 'once you start you can't stop' spectrum? You were absolutely right.
I love my pawprints, and I adore knowing that they're there, and seeing them and showing them off. But... it's been a couple of years, and I'm feeling the urge to body-mod again, and I just can't stop thinking about it. It's been on my mind for most of a year now, and I've been noodling around with images and concepts, and I've had the same idea for most of that time, so I'm feeling pretty safe about moving forward.
There's just one problem. I can't find a picture of exactly what I want. And I'm a horrible artist (stick figures are about the extent of my skill), and my google image searches aren't quite geting me what I need. So, I'm opening this up to more (and more talented) folks.
I want... hm. This is going to sound both incredibly vague and incredibly specific at the same time, but such is life. I want something green and leafy, and living, at the same time. The image in my head is that of a dragon, but admittedly, that's because most of the images I find for just "tree spirit" or "nature spirit" are naked women, and that's not quite what I want to have on my thigh for the rest of my life.
Unfortunately, most of the images I find when I look for tree dragons, or leaf dragons, are 1) black and white, 2) vaguely sinister, or 3) cartoonish, and I don't want any of those things. I want something green and colorful, graceful and beautiful, and... if not realistic, at least not cutesy or cartoony. Not Asian; that's not my paradigm. And not just a tree, or a dragon in a tree; I want something that I can.... oh, God, this sounds so pretentious when I type it out, but something that symbolizes both my bond to living things and to nature and green growing things, in one image.
Honestly, the aesthetic of what I want, image-wise, is a leafy sea dragon, just less aquatic and more land-plant-y. Somewhere between this and this.
So - anyone with better searching skills than mine want to hunt this down for me? Or, any amazing artists out there want to try their hand at coming up with such an image? I promise eternal gratitude, pictures of the finished project, and, if it's truly awesome, negotiable rewards of your choice....
