The tattoo-thread

Draugen · January 8th, 2010, 08:31 AM

Okay, now it is started. I noticed there were two old threads with tattoos in this forum, but they we're all regarding V-tattoos. I think some of us have others, don't you?

Draugen · January 8th, 2010, 08:43 AM

Here goes:
This is my left arm. At the top is the now (in)famous trollcross (this one I drew myself to make it a bit more personal) and furthest down is the alien/bug/bull-thing that Tiamat used on their album "A Deeper Kind Of Slumber".

Below is my right arm. At the top is the Aegishjalmur, and I'm pretty sure most of you have seen it in some other way or shape before. At the bottom is the tattoo I don't like very much today - the kliffoth-star that Therion have been using on almost every album. Also, I should point out that I'll probably fill the circles and the line connecting them someday. It looks quite stupid as it is today.

Last but not least is the latest tattoo that I did about a year ago on my right leg. It didn't actually turn out the way I wanted it to, but after I got used to it, I really liked it.

And for the record, I don't shave my legs other than when I'm about to get tattooed...

lefay82 · January 8th, 2010, 08:57 AM

the third is the one i like most!

Draugen · January 8th, 2010, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by lefay82

the third is the one i like most!

Me too

Elvina · January 8th, 2010, 10:24 AM

yep, the third one is really nice! something i wouldn't mind having myself, just not on the leg

Lupskalla · April 26th, 2010, 07:23 PM

Just wanted to share pics of my first tattoo, Odin

I got it a week ago

and I'm very happy with the results :P

PS. Try to don't see my face please (haha) I looked afraid... but I wasn't :P

Qu Appelle · April 26th, 2010, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Lupskalla

Just wanted to share pics of my first tattoo, Odin

I got it a week ago

and I'm very happy with the results :P

Nice! And your face is OK, too!

So, why Odin? Is there a story here? Or do you feel a personal connection to him?

(I don't have any tattoos and will probably never get any*, but all of the work I've seen in this thread is just magnificent! However, I do want to know what Mr. V's tattoos are!)

( *I have nothing against tattoos per se, I just don't like the idea of 'permanence' in regards to art on my body. It may be hard to explain.)

Defiance · April 26th, 2010, 11:18 PM

@ Draugen: I really like the first and third pics! The second one is OK, but has space for improvement IMO.

@ Lupskalla: I think Odin tattoos are a tad too over-used (inked?), but I really like yours! It seems like a young version of him, since, from what I can see, he still has both eyes. Most people get the 'olde' Wotan tattooed.

Draugen · April 27th, 2010, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Defiance

@ Draugen: I really like the first and third pics! The second one is OK, but has space for improvement IMO.

I couldn't agree more with you. I think the tattoo-guy who did the aegishjalmur and the stuff around it was a bit drunk, but it was many years ago now...

Elvina · April 27th, 2010, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Lupskalla

Just wanted to share pics of my first tattoo, Odin

I got it a week ago

and I'm very happy with the results :P

PS. Try to don't see my face please (haha) I looked afraid... but I wasn't :P

hehe i was already wondering when you were going to post your tattoo pictures...

very cool tat, as you already know, and you don't look afraid to me at all haha

i was just wondering what was the reason you decided to have it on your forearm? it's not a place you can easily cover up with clothes, especially in the summer...

Lupskalla · April 28th, 2010, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Qu Appelle

So, why Odin? Is there a story here? Or do you feel a personal connection to him?

Thanks : ) Cool that you liked it

I got a tattoo of Odin because I have always been fascinated by him, I just love nordic mythology and my favorite god is Odin, he's just great :P so I could say that I have a strong connection to him!!!

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Originally Posted by Defiance

I think Odin tattoos are a tad too over-used (inked?), but I really like yours! It seems like a young version of him, since, from what I can see, he still has both eyes. Most people get the 'olde' Wotan tattooed.

Cool that you also liked the tattoo hehe :P The motive that I got was painted by my sister (I did some changes in the beard and the wings but basically she was the one who created it) and she had various "modern viking" models (one of those my husband, hehe) so that's why he looks young :P About the eyes, I will get the blind one the next week because the guy who did it forgot it, ha!

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Originally Posted by Elvina

hehe i was already wondering when you were going to post your tattoo pictures... very cool tat, as you already know, and you don't look afraid to me at all haha
i was just wondering what was the reason you decided to have it on your forearm? it's not a place you can easily cover up with clothes, especially in the summer...

Thanks

Good that I don't look afraid

some friends have told me that I looked afraid, but cool if not :P
I wanted always a tattoo on my forearm, don't know why but I have a weird fixation with tattoos in forearms, haha, they look sexy to me

and I also wanted a place to show my tat as much as possible, hehehe. But I heard from the guy who did it that it's not a common place for girls to get tattooed :P cool to be original, haha : )

Defiance · April 29th, 2010, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Lupskalla

Cool that you also liked the tattoo hehe :P The motive that I got was painted by my sister (I did some changes in the beard and the wings but basically she was the one who created it) and she had various "modern viking" models (one of those my husband, hehe) so that's why he looks young :P About the eyes, I will get the blind one the next week because the guy who did it forgot it, ha!

Ah hahaha that's very funny! You could leave it with both eyes, as there is an Oden with both eyes. It'd be stylish, since most people will have one-eyed Oden. Hence, everyone will go:

he has two eyes!!!

tobz · March 19th, 2012, 06:23 PM

Grave-digging a bit here, but I just wanted to share my latest, and first, ink...

Defiance · March 27th, 2012, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by tobz

Grave-digging a bit here, but I just wanted to share my latest, and first, ink...

NICE!!!!

tobz · March 28th, 2012, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Defiance

NICE!!!!

Thanks! Too lazy to make it a better size (the pic that is), so I hope you can live with it.
Anyway, it's all healed up now, and looks even better than it did on the pic, a bit lighter in the tone...

Nattväsen · March 31st, 2012, 02:10 PM

My first, and only tattoo atm, done completely by hand, no machine

tobz · March 31st, 2012, 03:23 PM

Nice one! Is it something you've drawn yourself, or an old image?

Nattväsen · April 1st, 2012, 02:47 AM

The design is from a dragon head that they found on a bedstead, in a norwegian ship

And when i went to the tattoo artist and saw the picture in a book, i was like..: "Dude.. It's mine!"

https://www.theimagefile.com/v/tp/13...c-quayside.jpg That's not the acctual original picture, but it looked something like that, and i would'nt mind having those cuties on my bed

monoxide_child · August 17th, 2012, 08:28 PM

the tattoo on the back of my left hand reads D C L X V I
[six hundred and sixty-six in roman numerals]
the tattoo on my upper left arm is a Bat symbol,
not the weird rounded one from the 60s show,
but the one from Frank Miller's art where it looks more like an actual bat
i don't have pics cuz they both look like crap
gonna have them touched up before i take pics of them

tobz · August 23rd, 2012, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by monoxide_child

the tattoo on the back of my left hand reads D C L X V I
[six hundred and sixty-six in roman numerals]

Like the Entombed album, or your own idea?

monoxide_child · August 24th, 2012, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by tobz

Like the Entombed album, or your own idea?

no, not like the album, i live in the bible-belt
and it was just a kind of anti-christian thing
when i was in highschool, i had to learn roman numerals twice
once in History Class (roman numerals is an obsolete math sytem because there's no concept of Zero)

once in Math Class (actually learning how to do math in roman numerals, because it's a whole different skill because it has no Zero-as-place-holder)

i got frustrated with Christianity, (as i have already talked about in lots of ultimatemetal threads about religion) so when i decided to get tattoos, i thought that having a horrendously sacrilegious tattoo on the back of my hand would get me laid in Gothic clubs, and i remembered how to read roman numerals and i thought that having 6 hundred and sixty six written in roman numerals would look a lot more bad-ass than just "666" which had already been tattooed onto each of all my friends

i didn't even know D C L X V I was a 1997 album until a few days after i'd gotten the tattoo

monoxide_child · August 24th, 2012, 06:51 PM

thinking about getting a green lantern tattoo

http://www.thegreenlanterncorps.com/...ead.php?t=6216

tobz · August 25th, 2012, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by monoxide_child

i thought that having a horrendously sacrilegious tattoo on the back of my hand would get me laid in Gothic clubs,

Did it work?

monoxide_child · August 27th, 2012, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by tobz

Did it work?

yes, actually

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Originally Posted by monoxide_child

thinking about getting a green lantern tattoo

http://www.thegreenlanterncorps.com/...ead.php?t=6216

i didn't even know who the hell greenlantern was till the creation of Kyle Rayner
and i wanted to get a Kyle Rayner tattoo (like lettering in the tattoo that actually says "Kyle" or "Rayner" so that the person seeing the tat would know it's not Hal Jordan that i pay attention to

but now i'm thinking i don't really want to get a GL tat anymore because of the whole DCU getting re-booted thing, 10 years from now the 15-20-year-olds looking at a GL tattoo won't have any idea who the fuck Kyle Rayner is

love spiderman, but only 616, i'd already given up trying to continue reading the ultimate universe's spiderman even before they killed peter freaking parker
having peter dead and having some other kid put on the spiderman costume was a horrible gimick to sell more ultimate universe titles

been waiting since the "ultimatum wave" to get a tattoo that has the words "Earth 616" in it, but i don't want just the phrase by itself, i want spiderman totally filling up my back but i'm just waiting for money to get this pic filling up my entire back, here's the spiderman pic i want filling up my back

January 8th, 2010, 08:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
Draugen I I I Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Malmö, Sweden Posts: 1,210	The tattoo-thread Okay, now it is started. I noticed there were two old threads with tattoos in this forum, but they we're all regarding V-tattoos. I think some of us have others, don't you? __________________ Skald Official Webpage Metal Monuments - my music blog My Last.Fm My record collection "Jordlagda i namnlösa gravar som ekar av tystnad Där gammelskogen viskar ett namn om och om igen Den kallar på hans väsen att åter andas liv i deras kroppar Ackompanjerad av gråa och regntunga moln ovanför"

January 8th, 2010, 08:43 AM	#2 (permalink)
Draugen I I I Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Malmö, Sweden Posts: 1,210	Here goes: This is my left arm. At the top is the now (in)famous trollcross (this one I drew myself to make it a bit more personal) and furthest down is the alien/bug/bull-thing that Tiamat used on their album "A Deeper Kind Of Slumber". Below is my right arm. At the top is the Aegishjalmur, and I'm pretty sure most of you have seen it in some other way or shape before. At the bottom is the tattoo I don't like very much today - the kliffoth-star that Therion have been using on almost every album. Also, I should point out that I'll probably fill the circles and the line connecting them someday. It looks quite stupid as it is today. Last but not least is the latest tattoo that I did about a year ago on my right leg. It didn't actually turn out the way I wanted it to, but after I got used to it, I really liked it. And for the record, I don't shave my legs other than when I'm about to get tattooed... __________________ Skald Official Webpage Metal Monuments - my music blog My Last.Fm My record collection "Jordlagda i namnlösa gravar som ekar av tystnad Där gammelskogen viskar ett namn om och om igen Den kallar på hans väsen att åter andas liv i deras kroppar Ackompanjerad av gråa och regntunga moln ovanför" Last edited by Draugen : January 8th, 2010 at 08:46 AM.

January 8th, 2010, 08:57 AM	#3 (permalink)
lefay82 Per aspera ad astra Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: italy Posts: 1,938	the third is the one i like most! __________________

January 8th, 2010, 10:24 AM	#5 (permalink)
Elvina Tree-Hugging Space Elf Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: the lowlands Posts: 993	yep, the third one is really nice! something i wouldn't mind having myself, just not on the leg __________________ PAGANRoots Youtube channel - metal / folk / gothic live gigs.

April 26th, 2010, 07:23 PM	#6 (permalink)
Lupskalla Solens Krona Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Sweden Posts: 94	Just wanted to share pics of my first tattoo, Odin I got it a week ago and I'm very happy with the results :P PS. Try to don't see my face please (haha) I looked afraid... but I wasn't :P __________________ Det är ni som e dom konstiga, det är jag som e normal.

April 26th, 2010, 11:18 PM	#8 (permalink)
Defiance I vårens ljusa kvällar Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Midway through Infinity (or Gatineau, Canada). Posts: 4,875	@ Draugen: I really like the first and third pics! The second one is OK, but has space for improvement IMO. @ Lupskalla: I think Odin tattoos are a tad too over-used (inked?), but I really like yours! It seems like a young version of him, since, from what I can see, he still has both eyes. Most people get the 'olde' Wotan tattooed. __________________ My music collection! My pics "The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people". - Chomsky

March 19th, 2012, 06:23 PM	#13 (permalink)
tobz is where its at Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bland vättar och jättar Posts: 853	Grave-digging a bit here, but I just wanted to share my latest, and first, ink... __________________ Latest reviews: Týr - Rockharz Edguy - Metalcamp Warrior Soul - Wacken Suidakra - Rockharz Korpiklaani - Pumpehuset, Copenhagen

March 31st, 2012, 02:10 PM	#16 (permalink)
Nattväsen Oknytt Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Posts: 6	My first, and only tattoo atm, done completely by hand, no machine __________________ Ligg med mig din skrutt!!!

March 31st, 2012, 03:23 PM	#17 (permalink)
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April 1st, 2012, 02:47 AM	#18 (permalink)
Nattväsen Oknytt Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Posts: 6	The design is from a dragon head that they found on a bedstead, in a norwegian ship And when i went to the tattoo artist and saw the picture in a book, i was like..: "Dude.. It's mine!" https://www.theimagefile.com/v/tp/13...c-quayside.jpg That's not the acctual original picture, but it looked something like that, and i would'nt mind having those cuties on my bed __________________ Ligg med mig din skrutt!!!

August 17th, 2012, 08:28 PM	#19 (permalink)
monoxide_child Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 5,352	the tattoo on the back of my left hand reads D C L X V I [six hundred and sixty-six in roman numerals] the tattoo on my upper left arm is a Bat symbol, not the weird rounded one from the 60s show, but the one from Frank Miller's art where it looks more like an actual bat i don't have pics cuz they both look like crap gonna have them touched up before i take pics of them __________________

August 24th, 2012, 06:51 PM	#22 (permalink)
monoxide_child Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 5,352	thinking about getting a green lantern tattoo http://www.thegreenlanterncorps.com/...ead.php?t=6216 __________________