Artistry...

Jul 17, 2009 11:42

I'm thinking about getting a couple more tattoos. (I'm also thinking about tying my tattoos to my weight-loss goals, specific targets for each tattoo. Stole that idea, but it seems like a good one.)

Anyway, I have a few tattoo ideas that I've been knocking around for awhile, but I got a new one a couple weeks ago that I'm really excited about. The problem is that I can't draw worth a hoot, and it's got to be fairly well detailed. I've seen pictures of it, but none are quite right.

So I need some help drawing this sucker out. Someone sketchy.

I saw some guy with his kids in the grocery store a couple weeks ago. He had a scalp tattoo, and it looked pretty cool. I thought I might want one. I'm probably going to grow my hair back in a few months, but while it's short, I thought maybe now's the time to get a scalp tattoo. His was all over, and if he tried to grow his hair back in his 70s, some would probably appear under a receding hairline.

So I thought, well, if I got a scalp tattoo, I might want it somewhere that I really could grow my hair over. And then I remembered something from my neuroscience days that could make a really cool tattoo and the idea really bloomed for me.

Among my other tattoo ideas are various things that hold different levels of meaning related to different times in my life, and could be conversation pieces for talking about things with people. My short career in neuroscience, while largely unsuccessful as a vocation, had a huge impact on my intellectual and spiritual development. I'd like to honor that in a way.

And I love inside jokes and hidden references. And this would be immediately recognizable to a small but significant population.

The idea is to get a "Somatosensory Homunculus" tattooed over my Somatosensory Cortex, more or less in actual size and correct position. If you don't know what that is, there's a few decent examples on Wikipedia, and Google Images will throw up a bunch more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcentral_gyrus
http://images.google.com/images?q=somatosensory+homunculus

None of these are quite ready to be tattooed. In fact, it'll take me awhile just to get it lined up on my head, and to figure out what size to make it and all that. More importantly, though, I'm crap at sketching, so I need some help with this. Ideally, it would look a little bit like me, though with the distortions and the small size, I don't know how much like me it would be.

Honestly, it might just look stupid when it's done. It's also possible that someone has already done this, but when I searched for it, all I could find was tattoos of some logo, probably a rock band.

So, anyone with sketchy ability able to lend a hand with this?

things, stuff

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