Vertical tribal (for an arm?)
And another tribal tattoo design... damn, I promise I'll try something a bit more interesting next.
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I guess the round shape at the top make this one suitable for an upper arm. At least, I often saw tribal with circular shapes on the top that fits rather well on arms.
The grey inlay is there to prevent it to look too heavy.
The grey inlay is there to prevent it to look too heavy.
Ornamental tribal whatever tattoos
Yes, I lacked inspiration for the title :p. Two simple ornamental tribal-ish tattoo designs.
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Book "How to survive and spend time usefully in prison"
Today i start post translate of one book about russian prison. This book called "How to survive and spend time usefully in prison" and was wrote by Vitaliy Lozovkiy, owner of site about russian prison www.tyurem.net. About him and life in russian prison in his book.
I should say that I didn't mean to write a book about prison. I had a desire to share my world views thus getting rid of annoying memories associated with imprisonment. So Internet mailing "How to survive and spend time usefully in prison" was born. Interest to it exceeded all my expectations - about 2000 people subscribed to it immediately. Today the total number of subscribes is around 20000. The letters started coming, and two more mailings appeared: one for questions and answers, another - for prison stories from other authors. The site www.tyurem.net was developed. Thus the fate dragged me to the moment when I couldn't help publishing the book - I found it already written without me noticing it. The history of the book writing has dictated a bit unusual for book stylistics and form of narration - the author's text is mixed with the readers' questions, notes, remarks, responses (not always positive) and the author's answers to them. What can I do - Internet enters actively our life.
Initially I tried to present this book without letters. But it didn't work. One of the readers wrote about it:
Dear Vitaliy,
It goes without saying that letters are needed. When one reads published letters everything is pictured so realistically that in some moments "the hair stands on end".
I am an ordinary engineer. I knew about prisons and prisoners only by films and books. And I always thought that everything happening in the prisons is within the law, yes, there are some "excess" but not to this scale!!! And what is described in letters is just a NIGHTMARE!!! I'd like to know TRUTH but exactly "firsthand"! You, possibly, think that I am one of those who just want "bread and circuses" but this is not so. What you are writing about is TRUTH OF LIFE! And thanks to you and to your authors of letters!
Sincerely yours, Oleg I.
But there was the evident advantage in this form of writing: each next chapter was written under the influence of the readers’ feedback. They expressed their wishes and made evaluations thus suggesting me correct direction and style. Statistics of the number of subscribers, that, sometimes to my surprise, was growing constantly, was assuring me more and more that I did necessary thing. And thanks to everybody for this.
Sometimes there will be repetitions of phrases or descriptions of events - please, don’t judge strictly. This is a side effect of the interactivity I mentioned above – conversations on different sites, by mail, in different time, with different people.
This edition also includes several chapters and abstracts that were not published before and they were written in the process of the book preparation for printing.
Vitaliy Lozovskiy’s work is an attempt to systematize prison knowledge that has no analogues. And I should say immediately - this attempt is successful, with outstanding result. Complexity, closed nature and inaccessibility of the prison life for study as the Mars planet for a long time kept it in frightening uncertainty while according to various estimations from every fourth to every tenth of the CIS resident either was or is in the prison. There was a need for the experience of the person who passed though the repressive system of the post-Soviet prisons and prison camps in combination with the author’s analytical and summarizing talent to demonstrate the dreadful parallel world in which, unfortunately, everybody can have a place. Photographic presentation and truthfulness of the material is confirmed by numerous participants of the discussion the author arranged in Internet. Vitaliy’s work has no weaknesses as a result of the fact that the author having passed through the prisons and the prison camps, being direct participant of the events, has remained an attentive observer and everything he writes about is truth. Lozovskiy’s book opens the road for scientific, social and philosophic researches of the prison life and the prison inhabitants whereas the human rights aspect manifests itself and becomes one of the main aspects of this multidimensional, complicated as the prisoner’s life labor that can be hardly overestimated, as it is also impossible not to foresee burning interest of the reading public to this work – to the unique work both by its content and form, the first one of this kind. This book will be the reliable assistant on the way to life and freedom for each prisoner and free person either he gets to the prison by himself or as a result of absence of the legal framework in the post-Soviet territory or he won’t get there at all. Good luck, Vitaliy.
Alexey Pavlov,
Author of the story
“It had to be not this way”
Prague, 2004
To be continued...
Ornamental swirly tattoo design
Kind of abstract, I guess ornamental is the right name.
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This was actually based on a triskel shape, though it's hardly visible now, there's only 3 circular shapes left.
There's also a dragon with butterfly wings, yes, I swear. Look at the tiny round "o" on the left, it is right in the dragon's mouth, and if you follow the dragon "body" you'll find that the bits of strings in () shape are the wings. (I'm not sure that my explanations are good but explaining things in text is difficult, argh.)
So yay, a tattoo design with hidden meanings. :p
There's also a dragon with butterfly wings, yes, I swear. Look at the tiny round "o" on the left, it is right in the dragon's mouth, and if you follow the dragon "body" you'll find that the bits of strings in () shape are the wings. (I'm not sure that my explanations are good but explaining things in text is difficult, argh.)
So yay, a tattoo design with hidden meanings. :p
Lenin tattoo
Lenin is vor's tattoo too. Lenin is The leader of the October Revolution - Vozhd Oktiabrskoy Revolucii - vor.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday card for brother or for big friend. Card from prison, at bottle inscription Rum.
Symmetrical gothic tattoo design
A kind of gothic / tribal tattoo design. I like the carving effect, as in old churches.
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This one took forever and a day, just because I'm effing slow at shading. It's not that it's so difficult to shade, it's that's it's very difficult not to smudge what has already been shaded. (Anyone got some tips to avoid the smudging? So far I use post-it notes to mask some parts of the drawing.)
Black ink + pencils (mostly HB, and a bit of 2B and 5B).
The shadow around the design was done on computer, because I was to afraid to mess everything and smuuuudge the whole stuff.
Black ink + pencils (mostly HB, and a bit of 2B and 5B).
The shadow around the design was done on computer, because I was to afraid to mess everything and smuuuudge the whole stuff.
The Maori King!
There's some fabulous new releases at Tat'Tash Inks this week...and they are amazing!
Maori King is inspired by the tribal designs of the Maori people of New Zealand. It is available in two styles. Above is style one - chestless. It has the designs down the arms and on the back.
The back is incredible! Its a masterpiece of design and is sure to be noticed.
Maori King is inspired by the tribal designs of the Maori people of New Zealand. It is available in two styles. Above is style one - chestless. It has the designs down the arms and on the back.
The back is incredible! Its a masterpiece of design and is sure to be noticed.
Design two - full - has the same back and sleeves, but has a chest design as well.
You will love these tatts and not want to cover them up!
Tribalish tentacles
So yeah, lone tentacles again, without a full octopus body. I tried to mimic the simplicity and flowing shape that is found in some tribal designs.
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I like the organic shape of these things - here I see a kind of treble clef shape on the front tentacle... Well, with a lot of imagination maybe :p.
I added a somewhat pale-skin-color background, in order to see what it could look like as a tattoo with a few white highlights. Not sure this is very visible actually.
Also, I keep drawing the suction cups like this .˙.˙.˙.˙.˙.˙.˙. instead of :::::: (as seen on a lot of drawings) because as far as I can tell from photos, the two rows of suckers have a small offset. But I'm not sure to be right (most of the time, they just seems to be in a total mess)
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