Keep poking my about this. I doubt I'll have time over the next couple of weeks, but I'll definitey have a shot at redoing the central graphic and some colour for you by Christmas.

I had my tat done in a location where I can keep it covered easily, but I feel like I want to show it off all the time! I didn't make the design to be something that is immediately easy to understand, but I think it's complex enough that it will look cool to anyone who has the time to really look at it.

I guess some people want to keep their tattoos to themselves, but for the most part a tattoo is an external expression of an idea or an aesthetic choice, so I guess most of them are done in visible locations except where they have to be hidden for work.

Cheers! BTW I saw the pictures on fb of your tat. It looks great. Is it definitely finished now?

Yeah, it looks awesome. Were the circles in the 8 intentionally left uncolored?

I lean towards small to medium tattoos myself. The current largest are my DayanFlowers, natch, which for anyone who hasn't seen them, take up most of my left collarbone/clavicle area. I plan on having the flowers themselves extended to run over my shoulder and maybe onto my back someday - sadly, not anytime soon. I have my entire lifetime to shell out money for tattoos, and right now, other priorities are just above and beyond. The Hello Kitty I plan on putting on my right shoulder should be a little smaller than those, the 'en' for my elbow will be the smallest I have yet, and I'm planning on having my dead people stars colored in. Originally, (aka now) they're black tipped with an army/olive green in the middle, but I'm starting to think it would be more appropriate and more in line with my overall look and intent to get them blackened. They'll also transition up towards the 'luck' symbol better that way.
Hand tattoos are my thing, bigtime. I love my hands. I've had compliments on them, they're the most used part of my body as far as expression goes..and I want them decorated. Most of high school was spent drawing on my hands - both palms and the backs - more for how it looked rather than something to do. Outer ear and leg tattoos sound good too, but I don't think I'd get anything above the thigh. Concentrating on the tops of my feet/ankles for aesthetic purposes is main on my list.
Hopefully when I'm done, I'll be sprinkled lightly with art rather than heavily saturated or totally without it. That's the goal! Woo, bodymods.

I want more, but I want to be in shape first.

Yannick - No, those dots weren't deliberately left that way, we just missed them! They have since been filled in and the green has been gone over again.

Ryn - The design is finished, but the colouring needs touching up. The green is now done and shouldn't need to be touched again, but we'll be going over the dark and light blue bits again at some point in the future. The tattooist has offered to do this for free whenever I'm next in Oxford, but there's a lot of area to cover so it will probably need two fairly long sessions (4ish hours). So... Yes, it's sort of done now, but it's got more touch-ups to come.

And yes, I will get some decent photos online soon!