It’s not a bad tattoo, it was free and I was in a place in my life where I didn’t think getting a big ol rat tattoo was a weird idea… but things have changed and I’ve been considering covering it up. Mostly just asking for ideas with how/what I could cover it up with. Thanks so much in advance. :)

I really like the swirls and I would like to get it on my body, I am worried about it looking out of place/not going with my other tattoos. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Having my third boy in August, was wondering how should i incorporate him in here besides just having him hold my other boys hand, maybe something on my shoulder? Idk but i was wondering yalls creative ideas because i know there people here who have a better imagination than i do.

I got this tattoo a few years ago and I want to add to it, but am also conscious of the new ink being different. I was thinking of adding a sun but I feel like the placement is a bit tricky. I’ve also thought about adding shading but apparently this could make it look a bit heavy. Any ideas or suggestions would be so welcome 🙏🏼

Hello! This is my first time posting to this subreddit but you guys always have some great advice! I got this tattoo with the intention of someday adding to it, possibly doing a half sleeve but I'm completely stuck.

I would love to somehow incorporate my daughter who's birth flower is a morning glory or an aster and her sign is Virgo.

I also am a massive Fall Out Boy fan, favorite album is From Under the Cork Tree. I've always wanted something from this album. Possibly antlers?

I just have no idea where to begin. Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated!

Hi all, adding color to my lady head next week and filling in the empty space below. Any suggestions? American Trad only please.

It was a spontaneous tattoo during the summer a couple years ago and she had hers covered. I'd like to get mine covered but I've been told there's nothing I can do to cover it up. I don't care about size.

In the small square, I was gonna get either “M” for Majin that vegeta had on his head, and that bottom half, idek where to start . Maybe a shark fin ? As an “arlong” reference from one piece . And I thought for the right side of it, maybe zabuza’s sword and it’d be broken in half to fit the curve b4 connecting with the other tattoo ofc.

Hey everyone! This a bit stupid but I am trying to come up with a tattoo design that incorporates Pareto improvement in the design. I want a design that's not dorky or graphs or anything. I'm just looking for some ideas and suggestions. Thanks!

I have been covering up these scars on my wrist for a couple months with a bandaid, and hiding it everywhere. I want to get some sort of tattoo to cover them up, because I don't think they'll be going away soon. My favorite animals are snakes and bats- I think a snake would cover it up perfectly, but it needs to be the proper style. I dont want to get a tattoo that's too basic but I've also heard that snakes represent rebirth and healing. I, 17M will be 18 in 13 days, for reference, so I could really use some advice on this. I also love little black filled bat doodle tattoos, like swarms of them. I also want to get a tattoo of my cousins birthday in roman numerals on my chest, because she has my sisters birthday on her arm, and we have all been through a lot together. I really want to get the roman numerals on my upper chest for my 18th- but i need to get my wrist covered up first because I cannot wear a bandaid everywhere anymore. I dont want to get too many tattoos when im too young tho- and i like minimalistic, timeless, 70s rock band medieval cartoon looking artwork lol. Theres some ideas in the second slide. I would love a rattlesnake from a birds eye view in a smilar style to the scorpion. Especially the grey scales. I dont want a tattoo of a flower tho.

i was about to send in my idea for my religious trauma tattoo to the artist, but i searched up (and thank goodness i did…) possible meanings of crosses on fire and apparently theyre a symbol for the kkk

any ideas on how to edit this but keep this level of “i hate christ”?

Hopefully this is the right place to ask for advice/thoughts. I’m looking for something super simple to have tattooed immediately after a knee walk of the faithful in Fatima. My Portuguese is pretty bad, so instead of trying to bumble my way through- I was hoping to have something pre-drawn and ready that I can just ask to have done.

I’m fulfilling a commitment that I made to God 25+ years ago and I’m looking to get a tattoo to commemorate this opportunity to honor my commitment.

The commitment revolves around a dog and me in desperation begging the Lord for something. I had an immediate, undeniable (to me) response. Finally all the planets aligned where I as a Catholic will have an opportunity to hopefully complete this obligation in Fatima.

I’d like to be able to finish up and go to a shop and have something ready to go.

I was thinking prayer hands or a symbol of Mary or Fatima or a cross with a stick figure or simple cartoon dog. I’m a little lost. I have a bunch of tattoos already so this isn’t a first one or anything.

Thoughts? Not trying to be a dick to a tattoo artist or shop but this is really important to me, and I won’t have a ton of time after my knee walk. I’ll be going around Easter this year.

Help is appreciated. I don’t have a ton of $ but happy to tip for a design that I like.

These are some of my favorite photos of my daughter and I would really love to be able to tattoo some part or piece of her without doing the average side profile tattoo. I would like to be able to include her name (Genevieve), I’m just unsure about the style. I tend to lean more towards line work and I’m not a fan of thick lines and harsh shading. If possible, I would also like to incorporate Genevieve’s rose from Barbie’s 12 Dancing Princesses. If anyone has any ideas, please help

Hey everyone, I’m looking for some ideas to help finish my sleeve. I know I’ve only got a few pieces so far (see pics), and I’ve still got a ways to go but I want to keep things consistent with the blackwork/patchwork style. I’m leaning toward bold, clean designs with solid linework or dot shading no color or heavy realism. I’d say it leans more toward a neo-traditional vibe.

Some ideas I’ve tossed around include, Mom heart on my outer bicep area Wolf head on my inner bicep.

I’ve also unintentionally started building a leaf/flower theme, so that might be something to expand on or incorporate into the rest of the sleeve.

I’d love to hear your creative suggestions Appreciate the help!

it's going to be on my chest, and colored (the behelit inside is red, the middle eye is blue), it's just a sketch, tattoo artiste is going to refine it :)

I just spent so much time typing out this post and then the app glitched and it’s gone. So now you get the annoyed, to the point version of this lol

So, it’s a tattoo that incorporates her grandparents two different national flowers into a small bouquet. Their initials will be subtly incorporated into the petals as well. I have the base layout done in procreate using images I pulled from the internet, and then I sketched over them and placed them in a bouquet layout that my sister and I are both happy with.

( sigh Ugh, I don’t want to type this again… $&!.”@/!?$&?!#… okay I feel better)

Anyways at this point I was thinking I was done, because I assumed that a tattoo artist would take this and do their thing with it. But my sister wants me to fully sketch it out to make it more personal to her.

I guess I’m trying to figure out if me sketching it out will even aid a tattoo artist? I don’t have any tattoos so I’m unsure of this process. I have a feeling there are “floral tattoo rules” that I might not be aware of, which may result in the tattoo being changed anyways.

The other thing that makes me hesitate for more selfish reasons, is that the images I pulled from the internet don’t have a consistent light source in their current layout, so I’d need to fix that. I’m a perfectionist, so I’m sure I could do it, but I just know that I’m going to rip my hair out in the process and put wayyyyyy to many hours into it, when I figure a floral tattoo artist could probably do that much quicker.

I don’t want to disappoint my sister, so I want to do it, but I also don’t want to do it if there’s no point to it I guess. I have no idea if what I’m asking makes any sense. I hope it does!

I hope this subreddit is okay for a post like this. It seemed the most appropriate out of all I found.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you :)

What to do around the Butterfly? Any ideas? It will be like a sleeve around the upperarm. Maybe some clouds around it? Open for ideas :) Too empty now. Man, 23

I like it. She drew it on paper and I made it digital. Need opinions cause I don’t know if it could use improvements or not

So ive been meaning to get a tattoo for a while but im still not sure about the design idea i had. I know icarus tattoos are overdone af but i wanted to put a little twist on it. I wanted to do a Hades II inspired Icarus who ascends from the river styx and flies towards the moon, while holding the tools he used for creating his new wings.
Do you guys think that this idea could work?

Hi y’all!

I was hoping to get inspiration from creative brains to help me rework a tattoo I got on a whim in 2020. I’m working on my forearm and having a bunch of small pieces that all connect under the theme of “2” to honor a really hard time in my life that i have since overcome. I have 2 roses, “warr;or” with 2 arrows, and 2 waves. I was so upset with how the waves came out and with how little the artist cared about the details I had in the original picture. I really don’t like looking at it and keep telling myself I will transform it into something else. I have been actively brainstorming since 2023 and I’m just feeling really stumped since a couple artists have said there isn’t much they can do because of little space. Does anyone have any ideas of what these waves could turn into falling under the theme of 2?

I also have a small cross on the side of my hand that I think I want to turn into vines with thorns that snakes down my forearm so maybe that could transform it too and it turns into vines? I’m so lost 😭

I’ve spent hours trying to find the artist, but have had no luck. I know this isn’t the normal post here, but I’d really appreciate some help!

This is the most handsome boi Mulder. He’s named after the show. I’d love some ideas for a portrait of him that includes the X-Files in some way! I want to keep his likeness and not go too cartoon-y.

My dude’s favorite things are barking at both everything - particularly ducks - and at nothing (I got what I asked for when I named him) and copious amounts of sunbathing.

I was hoping to make my soon to be sleeve animal themed, however, I don’t want to cover my arm with just webs. I wanted to add a nature aspect to my sleeve, preferably jungle, how would you go about adding more/different animals?