• US$240

• 26 designs

• 6 designers

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Tattoo Design Brief

I have an idea I'm trying to make come to life. I'm a collector of early 1900's posters, magic and side show. I'd like to do something to represent my kids on my sleeve area. It needs to only cover down to my shirt line or 5"x9" (NOTE INCHES!) from my upper shoulder down. I'm a doctor in practice so I can't have it visible during the day. Here's my idea...

I'd like to represent my kids in what looks to be a side show poster. (I'm attaching a few examples of what they looked like!). I'd like my daughter to be a mermaid lady and my son to be a frog boy or crab boy or lobster boy or a fire eater, whatever works creatively. I've attached examples of some of the classics and work I've had created to date which I like but, isn't quite there yet.

So obviously it's going to require some caricature work so I've attached a photo of my daughter and son. My daughter has stunning blue eyes. The photo dosn't show it well.

For text, I'd like to to read Dr. H's (Top) World of Wonders (Bottom). I'd like more detail than the older posters so it would be awesome to get creative with some filigree around the outside. I'm open to black and white OR color. I loved one of the realism designs I received (attached) but, I think over the long term, it may not look so good as my skin ages. I love detailed line art and shading. Let me give you a description of the images attached here.

Dimensions 1 & Dimensions 2: Images of my arm where the tattoo will be going, again, 5 inches x 9 inches. So that's 12.7 cm x 22.86 cm.

Closest to Style, but, not enough detail: One I liked but, didn't have enough detail for me and didn't look enough like my kids!

Incredible Realism, Wrong Style: Looks amazing but, I don't think it will look great over the long term, also lacking the filigree around the outside that makes it look like an old time poster.

Wrong Font, Close to Style - Closer to what I'm looking for but, not quite there in terms of detail/line art, missing filigree.

Son Photo & Daughter Photo - Pictures of my kids for reference!

The rest... Samples of old art, colors, textures, representations of ethe early 1900's.

I think it could be interesting to have a ladies legs holding the portrait on the bottom. An interesting additional touch, something similar attached here under "legsarmsholdingframe". In the end I want what is attached as "blended together detailed" brought to life, detail filligree, detailed kids, Dr. H's, World of Wonders, Alive, Arms, Legs, Skirt holding frame. HAHA.

There are a number of amazing fonts here to preview for the era/subject: https://www.1001fonts.com/circus-fonts.html

Update 12/27 - Alright, I want to place an update here given the designs so far. A few important things. From a text perspective, I want "Dr. H's" and "World of Wonders". That's it, no additional Dr. Hornberger's. Also, as I noted I'm a practicing doctor so no nudes or implied nudes. My daughter is under the age 7, think more scales. I also think the mermaid, if in color should be blue or green rather than a pink girl color. I'm going to add another picture or two of my son. I think to get this tattoo'd the designs will need to be more flat and more line art, less realism given the tattoo talent in my area.

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Font styles to use

Other font styles liked:

• https://www.1001fonts.com/circus-fonts.html

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Requirements

Must have

• Kids that look like my kids! Filligree on the outside, both my kids on the side. Must be tattooable! No nudes, no breasts!

Nice to have

• Maybe some sort of a beach scene in the background where my kids are since they will both be nautical in nature. A color and black and white varient to choose from.

Should not have

• My daughter is 6 and should not have breasts in the images. That irritated me with prior designs. We're not shooting for a "Sexy" mermaid.

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