Alizée's Tattoos

[vivealizee]

Yes, I forgot about the back tattoo.
But the sailor moon and the bird??? Honestly, they look like shit, don't know how to say it in english but the sailor for example don't merge properly with the arm properly, it looks like someone put a one time tattoo on, these things for kids.



And the bird? Really? It looks like shit.
Diffrent shades of gray can look like this:



For example.

[DrSmith]

Originally Posted by zzztz

don't know how to say it in english but the sailor for example don't merge properly with the arm properly, it looks like someone put a one time tattoo on, these things for kids.

That's the only thing it's lacking. The image itself is is well-drawn. The colours and shading are great. Maybe she didn't want to merge the outline yet because she's planning on surrounding it with more things.

<strike>That's pure black & white. I don't see how that's better than what Alizée has.</strike> The bird has nice, subtle grey shading. It's modeled after a Disney-style cartoon if you hadn't noticed; that pure black shadowing would not suit it at all.

[vivealizee]

Well, her tattos aren't done closely to each other, so I don't think she does it this way.
The tattoo I posted isn't pure b&w it has many diffrent shades (I'm not fan of this tattoo either, it's just an example), beginng by the spiral in the center.
The bird hasn't nice, sbutle shading, it's just some blurry pseudo shadows (and no, not because of the photo quality, you can interpret how it looks in good quality) and seems - like most of her tattoos - to be out of place.
They just look like placed "somewhere", while her back tattoo and the one at her ankle are placed well.

[DrSmith]

Damn. Forget what I said about the black & white picture. The picture of the tattoo didn't show up for me, what I saw was this anti-hotlinking image.



Edit:

Originally Posted by zzztz

They just look like placed "somewhere", while her back tattoo and the one at her ankle are placed well.

That may be true, but I don't agree about the tattoos themselves looking like shit.

[vivealizee]

Well, however, I don't think so, it's easy to compare, for example with the Tinkerbell tattoo, not because of the color, Sailor Moon got color too, but I don't get it how someone can't see that it's very much "smoother" then the other ones.

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by DrSmith

What are you even talking about?

<img src="http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/290/imagevip80.jpg" width="890">

You don't think this looks professional, skilled, and expensive?

Bottom line though is if you were lucky enough to be viewing her back the way this Photographer was (Rin tin tin?), would you want to be looking at Tinkerbell, or just her back and the same can be asked of all her other tatoos? It doesn't matter how beautiful or artistic they are, they are a poor substitute for what's underneath.

[Aldighieri]

Who's tin tin? I'm missing some

[ALS]

Here is the opening of the Rin Tin Tin show for those not familiar with the 1950's television show.

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[BrianO1]

Post by Scruffy in response to Aldi's question:

Originally Posted by Sruffy

He's the tatooist in Paris who keeps screwing up her body. I sometimes refer to him as Rin tin tin as kind of a joke. Rin tin tin was an old old tv show about a dog named Rin tin tin. Kind of a Lassee type character. He was a German shepard who was found by American troops on a ww1 battlefield near Lorraine, in a part of Europe that at that time belonged to Germany, but I believe now belongs to France. An American serviceman brought him home and he became a Hollywood star (the dog that is).

[Aldighieri]

Aahahaah I know well about rin tin tin it was popular on first 70's tv show when I was young...
Don't think we can save her from the way she's leading...
Well curiously, one of mine fav. Italian actress Asia Argento is starting to full delete her incredible sort of tatoos from any body part (can't say were located, Euphoria would lifetime ban me ..)
Crazy showbusiness women can always change mind about..so who knows.