Japanese style octopus tattoo

[2bacanvas]

Ah-HA I think we have root cause here, folks. Maybe you should stop by the thread below if you haven't already. It's your tattoo to be happy or sad about. It's hard to not let our wife's opinion influence ours, but in the end, you're the one with the permanent mark on you. I doubt my wife likes Kongo Yasha's faces, and who can blame her, he's an ugly bastard, but that's what he looks like and she has to deal with his ugly mug along with mine.

http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/546-relationships-tattoos.html

Thanks for the link to the thread. Il look at it.

This part made me laugh pretty hard. ( I doubt my wife likes Kongo Yasha's faces, and who can blame her, he's an ugly bastard, but that's what he looks like and she has to deal with his ugly mug along with mine.)

[2bacanvas]

So I got an consultation next week to extend this tattoo to the shoulder. I was thinking another octopus from a different angle. Or 2 nd option would be a tiger. But not sure if that goes with an octopus color. Can't make up my mind at the moment.

[misterJ]

Hannya spilling water down rocks and stuff to the octopus?

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[jen7]

ship on the water's surface? surfer?

[2bacanvas]

Someone mentioned a shark. That would be awesome as well. Too many choices.

[markdeerhunter]

Just not sure about the tentacles in the forearm. I feel it's missing something. Or am I overthinking again?

Isn't the whole thing on your forearm?

[2bacanvas]

Isn't the whole thing on your forearm?

Your point being?

[punch]

My only suggestion. Don't do another octopus.

[2bacanvas]

Yes I won't go that route. I'm really liking some of the shark ideas. Got my appointment tomorrow.

[Bmore]

Yeah, I'll second the shark idea. Sharks are badass.

[2bacanvas]

So we decided on a shark. But need to combine it with something or include something else so it's not just a shark. Any ideas fellas?

[knucklehead211]

Girl riding shark? Not sure if I can post a pic (nsfw), but my artist did a really nice flash sheet of one.

[finegentleman]

So we decided on a shark. But need to combine it with something or include something else so it's not just a shark. Any ideas fellas?

Maybe a sea serpent/snake slithering in and out of the water to fill in the gaps?

[2bacanvas]

Or maybe a few skulls around the shark.

[tatB]

maybe 1 or 2 heikegani crabs

[rufio]

two swordfish crossing swords?

[Cork]

An infinity symbol that explodes in to a man-bear-shark, while Al Gore is scooping ice cream for the Insane Clown Possy.

[2bacanvas]

An infinity symbol that explodes in to a man-bear-shark, while Al Gore is scooping ice cream for the Insane Clown Possy.

Not enough room on my arm for this lol

[2bacanvas]

Or maybe a couple of sea snakes wrapped around the shark in the colours of the banded sea snake. Venomous bastards. It would go great with the tentacles with the octopus. What ya think?

[bongsau]

don't make it complicated by adding too much.

do you want a shark or a snake? having a bunch of snakes and a shark together is going to scale down the proportion of the shark on the upper arm which will look small and unbalanced against the proportion of the octopus.

$0.02

go for a shark on the top and fill the rest w/ black and grey water and wave background. the background is what is going to tie it all together. less is more.

[2bacanvas]

don't make it complicated by adding too much.

do you want a shark or a snake? having a bunch of snakes and a shark together is going to scale down the proportion of the shark on the upper arm which will look small and unbalanced against the proportion of the octopus.

$0.02

go for a shark on the top and fill the rest w/ black and grey water and wave background. the background is what is going to tie it all together. less is more.

Yes I know. It's just that the artist mentioned it would need something else to go with the shark. Something to add colour to it. I already have peonies on one arm and anemones on the other. So I'm looking for some small things to add to the shark.

[OutOfIdeas]

Palm trees, like Left Shark.

[marley mission]

in all seriousness - maybe the idea would be to leave this tattoo alone for awhile - put some ink somewhere else

[bongsau]

in all seriousness - maybe the idea would be to leave this tattoo alone for awhile

best advice so far...

[2bacanvas]

Why leave it alone? I want to extend it. Don't worry I'm working on other places for a tattoo as well