Introducing myself and two artists

[sammason]

Hello everybody

20 years after my most recent tattoo (see userpic) I've designed my next one. Here it is, to fit around my right upper arm.

Comments

[sweetest_asylum]

she needs to be perfect

[sammason]

I hope she is! There's a risk with anybody inking you of course, but my first impression of Neko is that she knows what she's doing. I've told her and Lee (in whose shop I met Neko) that if this armband goes well, I might let one of them loose on my back.

[lotus555]

Has Himemiya Neko actually agreed to do that design? Trying to get all those straight lines on a non-flat surface area is madness!

[sammason]

Yes Neko has agreed to do this. Her shopmate Lee introduced me to her because he's very oversubscribed. Then when Neko turned to me I saw that she's exactly the artist I want! Her own face and other visible body parts display plenty of geometric art that has been made to fit on non-flat surfaces. Also, she works free-poke which I hope will give her plenty of chance to adjust details of the design.

[sammason]

The armband never made it onto my skin. Neko adjusted it to size, made a stencil, put that onto me then asked Lee whether he agreed with her that 'it won't work.' They said that the problem was the way an arm isn't a perfect cylinder. They were too polite to mention how, at age 47, my upper arms are starting to sag. I like having saggy arms but Neko and Lee didn't know that. Anyway, an upper-arm band tattoo would stretch over the years and that wouldn't work well for a geometric piece.

Instead, Lee suggested a well-known ancient design called the Flower of Life. It makes the mathematician in me light-headed! When it's inked on my arm I'll show it to this comm.