I wouldn’t be too worried about being laughed out of a shop. I wanted to get a tattoo to represent my kids, so I got a chain of three elephants as an armband that me eldest drew. As you can imagine, they aren’t exactly the most fierce looking bull elephants on earth!
The tattooists at the shop gave me a bit of stick about it but even they said at the end of the day it has more meaning to me than 90% of the shit they tattoo on others.
That said, I have an idea for my next tattoo being a gorilla wearing scrubs riding a bike as a bit of a personal representation!
I tend to find that the more ‘laughable’ a tattoo idea the more stoked an artist is to do it. it usually beats doing another insert whatever is the hot image.
But that may be the people i know more than anything.
Best idea I have heard was a sloth riding a cheetah… or a full back piece of a hot dog holding sauce and mustard bottles with a slogan saying ‘guilty of being delicious’.
tattoos with meaning are a mistake. it means a lifetime of explaining them, and sounding like a tosser when doing so. take it from one who knows, my friend. better to get some pretty pictures.
Regardless of what you get some dumbass will always ask “why/where/who/how” because most people need an explaination of another’s personal choices.
Saying this, I saw one guy walking down Hindley Street with a naked muscular dog/man on his arm with paw prints tattoo’d all over the rest of his body and “Furry for Life” tattoo’d across his back. In this instance I don’t thing anyone would want to ask!
He was 9 when he drew it. Shading added by the tattooist to fill it out a bit more.
dnzr - I DID like the Chili Peppers when they made good music, and I am a bass player, however, I would never get a tattoo to imitate a celebrity. Just happened that I liked the picture my kid drew.
