What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

I only have one tattoo, a dragon on my left side, and I have plans for it to someday have a friend on my right side.

The backstory of my dragon tattoo (and the eventual phoenix that I want) starts with my Dad. He got one a long time ago (we’re talking nearly 50 years ago) when he was in the military. Well, my siblings and I all wanted to get tattoos eventually, and my younger brother was the first to get his dragon tattoo around 10 or so years ago, which spurred on our sister to get hers not long after. I would get mine a couple years later.

Unfortunately, as old tattoos do when they age, my Dad’s tattoo faded a little and the lines blurred together. So, when it came time for my sister to make the move to get hers done, she took a picture of Dad’s dragon tattoo to use as a base. She used her photo editing skills, traced what she could of it, and tried restoring it enough for her tattoo.

I did something similar. I have a friend who went to school for video game art and design, so I commissioned him to do roughly the same thing my sister did, except that he would be allowed to add a bit of his own style and flair. After I had taken the redesigned dragon and gotten my ink done, I went back to the same friend and commissioned the phoenix that I want to go on my other side. (The idea for the style matching side tattoo actually came from my younger brother. He has his dragon on the back of one of his calves and a style matched unicorn on the other.)

There are definitely other tattoos I’d like to get someday, but they’re still only ideas and nothing as complete as these two pieces.