#afi tattoos

[coldinlifesthroes]

Happy 22nd, Black Sails in the Sunset. . . 🙏

[tigerlilyyyyyyyy]

🖤🖤🔷

(Nvm my ugly hospital bands. I couldnt properly get them off atm)

[[also the pic on the left is not mine, im not sure whos it is. Please lemme know if you do so i can give cred. 🖤]]

[betterthanmeofcourse]

I will wait for you, she said. Endlessly..♥

[critink-blog]

don't mean to flood your inbox, but what are your opinions about people who get tattoos that are tributes to their favorite bands? Is there a way to do something like that without being horribly tacky or obvious? thoughts?

I wrote about this once already here, but let's give it another go. Like all fandom tattoos, band tattoos are easy to cop out on because there's already a lot of visual stuff to rip off--but there's also a lot of ways to make a really original, meaningful piece.

Let's talk about AFI because I've seen a crapton of tattoos dedicated to them and most of them suck. You can really see the quality of difference here:

Shitty logo tattoo

Shitty logo tattoo

The shittiest of shitty logo tattoos

Bringing album art to a good tattooist? Not the most original solution, but you can see the difference in quality already.

Some more nice re-rendering of album art. Again, not the most original, but light years ahead of a boring ass logo.

Awesome, original piece inspired by a song that obviously meant a lot to that person.

See how cool and original this can be?

And this one is obscure as shit, but speaks to a love of hardcore in general.

MORAL: If a band or song or musician means a lot to you, show it by putting time and thought and love into that tattoo. Don't just slap their symbol on you.