Fire-breathing Double-headed Pain - Part 2 | Mental Poo

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Fire-breathing Double-headed Pain - Part 2

When we last left our hero (me) in Part 1 of this series, the decision to have a tattoo that would incorporate my kids' initials of "C" and "P" was in full swing.

Sadly, the sketches I was coming up with looked more like rejects from the "Draw Scruffy" arts program that you'd find on matchbooks back in the day so I turned to my friend, witch (no shit) and amazing tattoo artist, Lisa from Good Mojo Tattoos in Salem, MA to give me some other ideas using her flair for actually being able to draw shit.

Here's what Lisa sent me:

Design sketch #1: "VINE"


Lisa titled this one 'vine'.

Pros: You can clearly make out the "C" and "P" and it's obvious that Lisa is adding some flair to the concept. Also, this is pretty accurate as my kids are clingy and like to climb on shit.

Cons: My back is kind of freckly and I fear this will end up looking like a bunch of dead grapes.

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Design sketch #2: Stars and Moon


Um.

When I was thinking of writing this post, I mentioned it to Lisa on Facebook:

Me: "Hey..I was thinking of doing a post about my tattoo..showing all the sketches and stuff. Also, as would be custom for me, some of them may or may not be subjected to slight ridicule. Like the moon and stars one where you apparently forgot I'm not an 8-year old girl."

Lisa: "You mean you're NOT an 8-year-old girl?"

Touche'.

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INTERMISSION


END OF INTERMISSION

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Design sketch #3: Fire and Water


OOH.

This was the first one that I went, "Ah. I think we're on to something."

Pros: Looks cool. Love the fire vs. water concept.

Cons: Both my kids are actually fire. Like a blazing San Diego wildfire type thing. As in when my kids show up, you want to dig a ditch separating you from them and then head for high ground.

But I really really liked the fire...and this got me thinking:

DRAGONS BREATHE FIRE!

Me: "Lisa...I like the fire but Payton will NOT want to be water..so how about a dragon breathing fire?"

Lisa: "You're a pain in my ass."

Actually, Lisa didn't say that because she's not mean to people for no reason like I am but she DID send me back this:


Okay okay..BUT..

*if you listen closely, you can hear Lisa swearing at me under her breath

Let's make it a little more badassish.

So I sent Lisa this sketch of a serpent/dragon thingy wrapped around a sword breathing an arc of fire:


..because the "C" is the fire and the "P" is both the dragon and the sword. See? See?!

Lisa took the sketch and came up with this:


NOW WE'RE COOKIN!

But we weren't done yet because I showed it to my kids who thought it was cool but Cam was a little bummed because his sister was this cool serpent thingy wrapped around a sword and he was basically just her bad breath and that pretty much put the kibosh on this design.

FML.

That and the fact that when I posted it on my Facebook page people were, like, "Dude..snakes don't breathe fire."

Oh. Oh yeah. But what if they have bad breath? Dammit. Nevermind.

And thus? I changed it ONE MORE TIME.

To what, you ask? Well for that, you'll have to stay tuned for the next post.

ENTER THE DRAGON...

(to be continued...)


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If you want a tattoo done by some wicked talented people and you're in the Massachusetts area, make sure you check out Good Mojo Tattoos and tell them the Midget Man sent ya:

10 comments:

yfn jman said...

yo! i like that! that's a pretty good lookin design.

MommaKiss said...

So the bad breath - clearly takes after her father.

Unknown said...

Not a tattoo fan, but those were some cool sketches.

Katherine said...

I didn't think it would be THAT big! (your arm, silly!)

Katherine said...

I didn't think it would be THAT big! (your arm, silly!)

Knight said...

The fire water is pretty kickass but I'm glad people pointed out that was a snake, not a dragon. Dragon's need pointy teeth and legs and wings. Damn, now I want a dragon tattoo.

Shieldmaiden96 said...

I clicked on this link eagerly, thinking it would be the chapter where you stopped being a giant titwhining baby and just got the damn thing done.

I assume that will be Chapter 3?

Carries Rambles said...

Glad I got to see armpit hair during intermission.
My life is now complete

Ellie M said...

Wow...it's soo big and um, can I touch it sometime? Oh, yeah, cool tattoo sketches.

Anonymous said...

Whatever, I like the stars and moon design. Now, if you put your hair in pig tails, it would really look darling.

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