NixNot wrote:
I didn't say they looked bad, I kinda like em, and have thought about getting wings myself, I was just pointing out that he was throwing stones in his fancy glass house.
Well unlike most people, I drew mine myself. And to be fair, I wasn't specificly going for a "tribal" look, out of the four I drew these were the ones that looked the best.
Detailed half feathered/half bat looked like they'd have too much story behind them that I'd have to explain in a non-crazy sounding way every time someone noticed them, too much of a PITA, so that got scrapped.
All shadows of a feathered wing looked disorienting, while shadows of a bat type wing looked baren. Those got scrapped.
I did a FULL back tattoo, that was a little too tribal - and you couldn't even tell they were wings, so that got scrapped (though I think it's still on my HD.)
Finally I decided to just sketch out some simple blackwork ideas that looked detailed & sexy but yet simple enough that when someone seen them they'd be like "oh wings, that's cool looking" and not ask why they're there.
Obviously those are the ones I went with.
Why wings? I dunno. I wanted something on my back and wings seemed to always come back up as a good option for something like that.