Ok, guys, It's looking like I might actually be able to start looking into getting my sleevework done in the next few months not that I have a decent job. Kat needs her Lorax sleeve done before I can start mine, but this gives me time to bounce ideas around. Thing is I want some ideas tossed around and I need to get these ideas written down so I do not forget them. I've lookeda round for good examples of Lovecraftian tats, and I've only seen one that I personally liked. So mind helping me bounce some ideas around?
Ok, First off, I plan on one sleeve being Lovecraft and the other Sleeve being a gaming tattoo, most likely Mario themed. Possibly a mixture of old Nintendo classic characters. Anyways..
The Lovecraft sleeve is my main concern at the moment. I've been wanting to get this done for a couple years, but just kind of put off planning it because it would just be teasing the shit out of me. The only part I have planned as a definite is that I want The entire tattoo in greyscale, or pencil sketched styling. Hastur/Avatar of The King in Yellow, depending on which mythos you go by, will be at the upper part of my arm. He will be the only thing on my sleeve that is not greyscale/pencil and will be wearing his tattered yellow robes. Tentacles coming out from underneath his robes will snake upwards into my shoulder. I want the tentacles to go up my shoulder and follow my collarbones or lower neck, both front and back, and meet up around the other shoulder. At the top half of my bicep, aka the top part of my other much more innocent sleeve, I want the tattoo to be dripping madness and greyscale into that innocent world with Toad or the like going insane with another denizen or two looking on in horror while the rest of the folks in the tattoo below are completely unawares.
So come on folks, I need some ideas on what else to do with the Lovecraft side of this sleeve. Should I go with a King in Yellow play theme? should i go for a creatures theme? Part of the problem I'm ahving, not being an artsy or creative person, is figuring out how the hell to visually interpret the idea of horror being the unknown and unseen, but at the same time wanting to pay some serious homage to Cthulhu and the other Elder Gods.
Seriously, if anyone here wants to help me bounce ideas around I'd love you for it.
This is really the only good example of Lovecraftian work I've seen and it's definitely what made me 100% decide on greyscale for everything but Hastur.
http://news.bmezine.com/2008/04/09/lovecraft-escher-tolkein-combo-tattoo/#commentsThis one for example is gorgeous, but I just don't like it as a Lovecraft tattoo.
http://news.bmezine.com/2008/08/12/the-kraken-awakes/#commentsSo yeah.. Ideas!
EDIT: Also, an Elder Sign has be in somewhere, but I can figure out where it goes later on in the planning stages. Thus far one possibility is the back of my hand.