Devotion in ink

[Alkasquawlik]

All y'all love skiing enough to quit jobs, leave women/men, and spend 3/4 of your pay checks on skiing, but how many of ya show your devotion in ink.
I've been wanting a skiing related tattoo for a long time now, It's just ponying up the money for one that keeps stopping me. Show my yours and I'll show you mine (ideas and tattoos that is). So far I'm thinking typical snowflake or mountain range and maybe a memorial to two bro's lost in an avalanche. I'll post pics in a sec.

[Z]

At the end of the Mind the Addiction clip on the site, some old guy has a cool tat...says something like live to ski, ski to live or something.....looks cool anyways


Z

[splat]

Don't do it - yet.
I think the tahoe summit sticker is still being designed. You could be the first guy with a PM tat.


Z [/B][/QUOTE]

[Dantheman]

On my right shoulder blade...pic is way blown up though, the actual tat is about half this size
http://biglines.com/photos/pbpic3869.jpg

[funkendrenchman]

I'm gonna do something similar to Dan's. Two mountain peaks with tracks down one and an Alta-style snowflake on the other. Probably 3"- 4" in width and height and on my right calf. I'll be sure to post a pic when I get it.

Here's a rough sketch. I may redesign the snowflake or not.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic14942.jpg

[phUnk]

I'm having, "Get Some." tatooed on my shoulder.

A catchphrase that good never goes out of style, right?

[char]

I'm getting this.

[Alkasquawlik]

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[Alkasquawlik]

This a schweet painting I've seen that would be unbeliveable as a tat. It's hard to see cause its a photo of a picture but you get the idea. I'm thinking wrapping entirely around my ankle and calf. Gonna cost an ass load of change though. I've talked to some artists around here and they say it's totally doable.

All right, nevermind the photo, it's to big to upload, anyone know of good free software to reduce a photo in size. iPhoto won't let you.

Dan- I dig that tat, simple yet sick.
phUnk- Classic, I think I would go with, "It's Do-able" It's just as universal

[zion zig zag]

Originally posted by Z
At the end of the Mind the Addiction clip on the site, some old guy has a cool tat...says something like live to ski, ski to live or something.....looks cool anyways


Z

when micah's drinking at the moose there is that bearded guy with "jackson hole air force" tatted on his arm

[The Reverend Floater]

I gots mountains with a rising sun around my arm. I also have an abstract mountain goat (spanish design) on my foot that I got while living in Spain.

[truth]

I have "phUnk's" in arabic across my abs.

[optics]

Here's my soon- to-be.

It's a cover up of an old english script from my days in the icy hots.

And if anyone says it looks like the red hot chili peppers logo I will cut your nuts off with a spoon.

[truth]

Originally posted by optics
It looks like the red hot chili peppers logo

There is no spoon.

[optics]

Bastard. Now it's my could've been, not my soon to be.

Gangsta tats are tricky to cover up.

[StormRider]

I have a silhouette of a skier on my thigh. It came from the cover of SKI mag’s 50th anniversary issue from around ’92 or ’93.
My next one will be of a yin-yang with snowflakes instead of the dots. That design came from POWDER from around the mid ‘90s. I just haven’t decided where to put it.

[truth]

Originally posted by optics
Bastard. Now it's my could've been, not my soon to be.

I like the design man...the RHCP are all good in my book...and a freaky stylee snowflake covering up a youth induced mistake is a good thing. I have a collection of black ink and one I'd like to cover up as well. I've been waitng for the right moment in life as the piece will be large...from shoulder to shoulder across my back. Saldy the day grows closer with each passing minute.

[gincognito]

Originally posted by funkendrenchman
I'm gonna do something similar to Dan's. Two mountain peaks with tracks down one and an Alta-style snowflake on the other. Probably 3"- 4" in width and height and on my right calf. I'll be sure to post a pic when I get it.

Here's a rough sketch. I may redesign the snowflake or not.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic14942.jpg

You should definitely redesign the snowflake. Nothing bugs me more than seeing flakes with more or less than 6 sides.

Sick and ashamed and happy (and, okay, plenty of things bug me more, but it is one of my pet peeves),
d.

[Arty50]

Originally posted by Alkasquawlik
All right, nevermind the photo, it's to big to upload, anyone know of good free software to reduce a photo in size. iPhoto won't let you.

GraphicConverter

It's not free, but I've never seen more people swear by a program. Once I finally get a digital camera I'm going to buy it. I used to have it years ago on an old Mac and it was really simple and really good. It's shareware and costs $30.

For free, the first thing that comes to mind is the Gimp. It's basically the open source answer to Photoshop (aka Photoshop for Linux), and as such it was an easy port over to OS X.

[Alkasquawlik]

With ya on that one gin. Something like this is pretty schweet.

http://www.rsm.ac.uk/images/snowflake.jpg


Thanks Arty

[Alkasquawlik]

Here we go. This is what I've be dreaming about for a while.

[CaddyDaddy77]

Looks cool, black and white or color?

[watersnowdirt]

That last painting is hard to see, Alka - so I don't know how it would translate on skin. The snowflake is really nice though.

I've got an earth on one side of my ankle and a really cool sun on the other. Love them still to this day (it's been over 10 years).

Think about it for a while before you do it so that you can really let it sink it. I used to sketch it on my ankle and walk around for the day to see what I thought.

[The Reverend Floater]

Originally posted by watersnowdirt

Think about it for a while before you do it so that you can really let it sink it. I used to sketch it on my ankle and walk around for the day to see what I thought.

Word.

[funkendrenchman]

Originally posted by gincognito
You should definitely redesign the snowflake. Nothing bugs me more than seeing flakes with more or less than 6 sides.

Sick and ashamed and happy (and, okay, plenty of things bug me more, but it is one of my pet peeves),
d.

Agreed, I had 6 sides on the one I drew before that. It's pretty easy to add a side to the sketch I made.

Any idea how much the sketch I made would cost to have done?