Bookbinding Tattoo, concept art
on Mar 10 in Books, Digital Library, Favorite Posts, Life, Women's health by Erica Firment
Someone asked me where I found the art for my nonexistent biopsy scar-covering tattoo, and I thought you guys might be interested…
This came from a series of 18th Century bookbindings. It’s too elaborate for reality, perhaps, but I liked the idea.
This was intended to cover a scar that I have grown rather fond of. The tattoo plan was scrapped, but the concept was good.
I sampled my skin color from a photo, isolated two different florets from book covers I found in a digital library collection, overlapped them, messed with transparency, did a color mask to match a brown ink, and then chickened out at the last minute.
For more on why I didn’t get a tattoo, please see this very special episode of Red vs. Blue.
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