any one have any tattoos, ksw or ma related lets see pictures. i am getting a half sleave tattoo on my left arm, as a promotion gift to myself. i am getting it done monay the 21st of july. i will send pics as soon as its finnished. it will be of a dragon and pheonix, the dragon will be reaching out toward the wksa logo
I have a tattoo, but not MA nor KSW related. I think KJN Jack Harvey has a KS-related tattoo on his back. I know there was a picture around somewhere.....
Ive always thought tattoos tacky, especially on MAists and whatever happened to treat your body like a temple. But to each their own.
I know a third degree who got the logo tattood on his back. He is not practicing Kuk Sool any more. I wonder if he still likes his tattoo.
that is pretty cool, I like that you went with the asian style dragon and not the european variety. where id you find the pic for the artist to trace or did the artist do it freehand.
Very nice. I'd love to see a larger, higher resolution picture (i.e. want to see all the detail!) whenever it's done! I too am curious if it was traced or is freehand. Tho of course, if traced the original artwork could have been freehand. Just curious about the background. Regardless, it's quite nice.
the tattoo design is on the back of the main character from a korean film called "my wife is a gangster" i found about 4 stills of the tattoo from the web, gave them to the tattoo artist (which i spent a lot of time finding) and he redid it to fit my back. i'm gonna get the claws and the rest of the tail filled in with black, the original was all black but i think i'm gonna get the scales done a bit differantly and maybe get the korean charactors for dragon (yong) somewhere too. if you wanna check out the tattoo in it's stages go here to my facebook page http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=9499&id=602350874 oh, and it's my 1st tattoo as well
Yah I have to go along with the art in temples comment. I think that this idea that our bodies are immutable feeds into our ego. I like the idea of mindful decor. Especially since I never liked my pale skin tone anyways =p I'm starting my JP full sleeve this fall with Timothy Hoyer - currently visiting Brooklyn Adorned - http://www.nyadorned.com One of the best and another artist gushed over his skills and personability. Here's the woodblock I'm using as a guide for what I'm doing on my forearm. this witch type girl tried to avenge her father's death by distracting a samurai with magic that made 100 skeletons fight around him. he had to see through their 'reality' I really like it's message. I'm also getting Kwan Seum Bosal (the Korean Kwan Yin, Kwannon, Avalokiteshvara) which although not MA related the painting I'm using is on the wall in the Buddhist MA temple I live in now.
Well, I don't have any tat's, but my sister does. You could probably call the Kanji below her neck MA-related, she was trying to say something about timeliness.
Hey Matt, here's something to help with your tat. The first two are different HanJa fonts & the last two are different HanGeul fonts for the word "dragon."
cool! thanks KJN. i've been looking for a decent sized image of the hangul font for ages. sorry matt, not trying to rain on your parade, 1976 was the year of the dragon :hat:
After I stuck up the pic of the word "dragon" for you, I got to thinking that there are 2 main types - sky dragons and sea dragons. Since you picked a picture of a sky dragon (AKA heavenly dragon) I thought you might like to have THAT extra defining character to add to your tattoo. So here it is in the same differing fonts as before: (pronounced CHUHN YOHNG in Korean -- in standardized romanization = cheon yong)
How can you tell the difference, Ive only seen the heavenly type in the various pictures/artwork that I have "access" to.
If it's not too much trouble, would you mind posting two others? Ox and pig? I'm cross-stitching a baby blanket for my son, and I'm going to design the middle panel myself. I want it to be personal, but I don't want the personal elements to be obvious to all who see it.
