gold, green, blue
Mar. 10th, 2024 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidensecond session on my tattoo is complete.
fire-lizard count is up to five; the gold, green, and blue have their main color pass. we've planned out the color choices for the bronze and brown. the linework on the most-sensitive part of my arm went fine. i think there *might* have been more pain than elsewhere but not in the significant way i was led to believe.* (i assume that color there will be a different experience.)
next month, the bronze, the brown, background. (she's planning to draw the background spiral waves freehand on my arm.) i suspect that it may take more than one more session to complete but i'm happy to be surprised.
original linework (upper arm with two fire-lizards, one holding a fish)
same area with the original two colored blue and green, fish in violet, and a new third fire-lizard line work
we've been joking that the entire upper arm is designed to frame that fish (because we're both in love with it)
forearm with climbing gold fire-lizard
there are some insane fine details that probably will blur out over time, but the general shapes should hold well, which is all i need for the long haul. like, each one has specific colors for their claws and eyes. i'm glad i decided to take a flyer on an early-career artist, she's so excited and thoughtful and pushing her edges.
*apparently that's a common spot for twitching, frequent breaks, etc. my artist said that area is particularly painful for her. i've been told that my pain tolerance is high and i heal quickly but as i only know my own experience i'll have to take that on faith. it's a weird thing to think about for me; i do wonder sometimes if, for example, my history of mild to nonexistent menstrual pain isn't that i don't have classic cramps but that i don't feel them.
fire-lizard count is up to five; the gold, green, and blue have their main color pass. we've planned out the color choices for the bronze and brown. the linework on the most-sensitive part of my arm went fine. i think there *might* have been more pain than elsewhere but not in the significant way i was led to believe.* (i assume that color there will be a different experience.)
next month, the bronze, the brown, background. (she's planning to draw the background spiral waves freehand on my arm.) i suspect that it may take more than one more session to complete but i'm happy to be surprised.
original linework (upper arm with two fire-lizards, one holding a fish)
same area with the original two colored blue and green, fish in violet, and a new third fire-lizard line work
we've been joking that the entire upper arm is designed to frame that fish (because we're both in love with it)
forearm with climbing gold fire-lizard
there are some insane fine details that probably will blur out over time, but the general shapes should hold well, which is all i need for the long haul. like, each one has specific colors for their claws and eyes. i'm glad i decided to take a flyer on an early-career artist, she's so excited and thoughtful and pushing her edges.
*apparently that's a common spot for twitching, frequent breaks, etc. my artist said that area is particularly painful for her. i've been told that my pain tolerance is high and i heal quickly but as i only know my own experience i'll have to take that on faith. it's a weird thing to think about for me; i do wonder sometimes if, for example, my history of mild to nonexistent menstrual pain isn't that i don't have classic cramps but that i don't feel them.
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Date: 2024-03-10 10:15 pm (UTC)my artist is really leaning in on the details of the individual fire-lizards - stuff like the touches of color for eyes, "ears", nails are consistent across the two covers with Menolly; Beauty (Menolly's gold) and Piemur's gold from Dragondrums (whose name escapes me) have different eyes, etc
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