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Two nights ago I took my girl friend and mom to go get tattoos. my girlfriend got a tattoo of the panther chameleon I got for her for christmas. And the tattoo was done off of one of my photos! It came out awsome. What do you think?

peace,
nate

this one I got, it is a maori bone carving ( australian/ new zeland) it stand for the joining of ones soul with the earth and the joining of two peoples souls, the curves represent paths in life and mean that no matter where you go in life you will always end up with the other person, basicly it means love. I have another on my other arm that stands for stregnth , courage, family and power

this one means evolution and extinction, the designs are polonysian

this is a drawing I did that I am considering getting on my back

Wow, those are some great tattoos, and your beardie drawing is amazing! I would love to see that as a tattoo. I'm going to get my first tattoo next weekend--I'm so excited! I'm going for the tribal lower back, but I'm thinking about a lizard for a future tat. We definitely need pictures if you get the beardie on your back.

pretty cool. i have been thinking of a lizard tattoo for a while but i don't want to end up getting tattoos all over me. I know that after a while you find that you need a second one...third one...and so on.

My fiance has two tattoos. one is some chinese character that apparently stands for 'unity'. and she has a small humming bird behind her ear. I never really understood why people get the chinese characters....well i guess they look interesting and all but.....what if the artist deceided to be silly and told you it meant something that it doesn't.

so, are you gonna have them make that beardie tattoo a sandfire?
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a free range dragon is a happy dragon

That drawing should translate nicely into a tat if left in grayscale with no color. Please post photos if you get it done.

This is my most recent tattoo, altho it was done 3 years ago. It took about 7 hours to complete and I'm not quite sure it's done yet! LOL Please forgive the Tegu scratches.

Nate, i drew a pic of my male beardie and i got my friend to tat it on my back right shoulder, my girlfriend got it too on her calf. I've GOT to send a photo of it to you, the picture i drew of my male looks freakishly similar to the one you drew its SOOO weird it almost looks like the same drawing!!

Once i get back to RI this thurs nite i will post a photo of the tattoo, that's ironic that we drew the beardies in the same position.

did you draw the picture from your beardie?, i did mine, i drew it exactly to scale to his size and then i had it shrunk for the tattoo

my friend jon hazel up in nh has his own shop, he's real good,(i'd recommend u to him but i'm sure youhave ur own fav guy who does ur work) he did it for us (it's my fifth) but it hurt like a [bleep]! he used my drawing as the outline and did all the colors from my beardie, (kunji sat on his shoulder while he tattooed!!) he kept stopping and referring to my lil boy while he was inkin, he studied him.. so it took him 4 hours for hers and 3 for mine.... ahh! i'm never gettin one this detailed EVER again!

i'll send you a pic of it soon
~kristen
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1.1 Bearded dragons (Kunja and Lily)
1.0 Algerian Uromastyx (Jacques)

Thank you for your advice!

oh yeah, i forgot to ask u.

are you getting your's (if you get it) in color?

i saw that photo of that other person's iguana in black and it made me wonder.

I just wanted to let you know that mine is in color, but my artist couldn't do it with the 'realistic' colors i drew my boy with (he's brown and orange with lavender hues on the side) because he said if he did it 10 years down the road it'd look like a piece of poo on my shoulder! he he, so he exaggerated the colors a bit, made the purples darker, the oranges brighter, and added some reds and greens, it looks awesome, so i wa s just wonderin if your goin for color. As long as you do bright colors and not just one solid one you should be fine.

o h by the way yeah, like that other guy said, it's gonna be really long to get done if you have your artist do all the detail that you drew in the drawing. i CANT believe your drawing, it look s just like mine.

if you get it done, ask your artist if you can bring the specimen with you(your beardie of course) so he can study it while he's inking, we found that that really helped, because there IS alot of detail on the beardies, and if he's gonna do all the spikeys and bumps, etc. you might wanna bring the beardie!
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1.1 Bearded dragons (Kunja and Lily)
1.0 Algerian Uromastyx (Jacques)

Thank you for your advice!