Dragon TATTOO Help Needed!
Joel Delman
Could anyone point me to a good book/website/etc. which would have
dragon pictures suitable for a tattoo?
I'm looking for something extremely simple and elegant, all black, an
artful sillouhette of a dragon rather than a detailed rendering.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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Best Regards,
Joel
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ELynne
D'oh! Took me long enough to reply to this...sorry!
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Joel Delman wrote:
> Could anyone point me to a good book/website/etc. which would have
> dragon pictures suitable for a tattoo?
> I'm looking for something extremely simple and elegant, all black, an
> artful sillouhette of a dragon rather than a detailed rendering.
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
> Best Regards,
> Joel
Heyla Joel,
My best reccommendations are as follows:
1) actually, for a tattoo design, one good way to get exactly what you
wand is find a local tattooist whose work you like, and work with them to
get a design that's right for you. A friend of mine did this for a big
blackwork tribal-style oriental dragon that she's having wrapped around
her entire body, shoulder to leg...I gave her some of the original ideas,
but the tattooist was able to elaborate on the style and make the form
work to fit her body. Usually you can find a tattooist who's willing to
work with you on that kind of thing, but if not, or if you'd like to have
a picture to look at first, I do have some other ideas...
2) Coupla websites: http://www.draconian.com/images/ has a huge list of
dragon art sites, you'll have to poke around through quite a few to find
what you're looking for, most likely. Same with the AFD homepage,
http://www.dragonfire.org/. There's also tons of fantastic art by Michael
Whelan, including dragons, at http://www.glassonion.com/, just don't use
it as clip art!
3) Another idea...if you find a page with artwork you like, but there's
nothing quite right, you might consider asking the artist (assuming that
the work is by the person who runs the page!) for a commission piece.
There's several artists available at FurNation, http://furnation.com, who
would be willing to help you out. There's two I can reccommend right off
the bat--I know them personally, and their work! Auryanne has a great
dragon sillouette on her home page, at http://www.drizzle.com/~auryanne/,
though if you decided to use that you should probably ask her first; but
I'm fairly confident that she'd be willing to create a design for you (if
she's not still busy inking prints, that is). There's also Kaijima, at
http://www.furnation.com/kaijima/; in the Gallery, there's one picture
called "dawn," that shows what he can do with a sillouette.
4) And finally, the best place I can point you to for books is the Dell
series of clip art. There really isn't much good dragon art out in print,
and you have to look long and hard to find it, generally.
Heck, I'd be willing to draw a sillouette for you myself, except that I
don't have a scanner or know how to put stuff on a web page. >;=8) Good
luck on your quest!
-- Jia Maebashi, The Procrastinating Draconid
(Formerly Known As Rasha)
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Jia and her human incarnation, Erin, can be reached at
ELynne@concentricdotnet (replace dot with .)
Information about draconids can be found at
http://www.furnation.com/Kaijima/draconid.html
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...thanks, Cerulean! >:=8)