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Help needed please

Hi, just lookin for some ideas maybe even some drawing if anyone has a spare bit of time on their hands . Basically this is one of my tattoos as it is:

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/2003600/

Where the smoke is I want it to be filled in/ covered, I want to improve the background and fill in some more shading but at the same time I dont want to take away from the original piece. I asked my tattooist and he couldn't really come up with much...

Any suggestions let me know. cheers

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Permalink Reply by Mark on May 11, 2008 at 6:10pm: My suggestion would be to run it past a tattooist who has some creative ideas.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by v2d on May 11, 2008 at 6:30pm: Yea, not really the response I was looking for...... Seeing as this is a tattoo forum I thaught it might be a good place to ask.....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mark on May 11, 2008 at 6:44pm: Sorry mate - wasn't trying to be unhelpful about your question, but if I were in your position that's exactly what I'd be doing. If you can find the right artist who can interpret your ideas creatively then you'll be a happy chappy.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Father of Roses on May 11, 2008 at 11:15pm: I'd just color the shit out of it... it's pretty well constructed as is. You could incorporate a lot of old school images with that subject matter too, like snake eyes dice for the bad times with "Born to Lose" type imagery... For the good times some Pinup Girl type work... Hot Rod flames...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MACDIESEL on May 12, 2008 at 7:45am: i'm not tring to sound rude, but i 'd rec seeing a diff tattoist. it can easily be jazzed up well! a good tattoist could have a lot of fun making a sleeve out of that!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by v2d on May 12, 2008 at 12:48pm: Cheers for all the responses. Nah that doesn't sound rude... i just wanted to get some ideas from other people. I think my tattoist has done quite well with it, i just wanted abit more built in without taking away from the piece. When Iasked him he said I needed to think of some imagery to put in, but thats not neccessarily what im after.... I just want a nice background to bring the piece out more.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by tat2ts on May 20, 2008 at 7:20am: Your artist did a fantastic job on that piece. Heres an idea, since you already have nice flame shadow tones around the piece, I would reccomend adding flames to the background, Maybe start out at the base in bright vibrant full color and about halfway up have it start fading into B/G all the way to the top.; ▶ Reply to This