advice?

[beauty_is_now]

 Hello All,

I have a Le Petit Prince tattoo on my arm (very similar to one posted a month or two ago) that I got as a black outline, because that's kind of my style (I have 3 tattoos and no color thus far).  However, I find it a little too... minimalistic?  I don't know.  The point being, I want to get it filled in.

I'm just looking for some input in

Comments

[erupt_disaster]

If I were you, I'd fill in the elephant in grey and since you don't want any color, maybe do the hat black with a brooch, band or accent of some kind to keep it from looking like a black blob. i like your elephant though! post pics when you do something to it.

[beauty_is_now]

ah, yes, i should have been more clear.

i am open to color for this one... i envision getting the bottom boa in brown, though if shades of black/grey would work better, i'd go for that too.

just looking for ideas! thanks!

[pasdeschiens]

I'd probably fill in both the elephant and the bottom boa in a mid-grey, I think. If you wanted to go colour though, then maybe elephant in grey, boa in hat-colour - and get both of them to be a similar darkness/intensity?

[elessa]

here is my suggestion which you may discard if you wish.

why not either use a paint program to colour in various combinations, or make photocopies of the artwork as it exists on your arm and play with some crayons/coloured pencils to work out some options?

make the drawings to scale so you can overlay them on your arm to see how the colours would appear.

that is what i have done in the past in order to work out an idea in multiple combinations as i try to figure out which one speaks to me.

narrow it down to a couple you may not be able to decide on and post them here for opinions if you are still stuck.

[olwensmiles]

My friend actually has this same thing tattooed on her arm as a band (so the "hat" faces out and the elephant is on her inner arm. What she decided to do was to get the "hat" colored in (it's a greenish-brown color) and the snake colored in that same color and then she left the elephant a line drawing. Don't know if this helps, but it looks really nice.