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The purpose of this contest is to attract as many as possible tattoo design artists and all other creative people here on DeviantART to take their part in creating unique tattoo design described below.

This design is for the “male” tattoo – it’s going to be inked on a guy.
It should be done using “tribal” technique, but since it’s going to be inked on a guy there shouldn’t be way-too many curves, generally used in tribal technique. Using some vector designs incorporated with tribal is also ok.

There should be at least 50 designs submitted for this contest to be valid, so please spread the word... the more entries we have the better the competition.

If you have any additional questions please send me the note, and I will update the journal here with all your questions followed by answers.

Each Sunday, all submitted works during that week will be showed up here in this journal

The shape
The shape of this design itself is supposed to be upside-down triangle-ish. Not exactly straight triangle, but to follow those triangle-ish lines more or less. You can also incorporate aries zodiac sign in tribal way into design .. it is not necessary .. but it came to me as an idea while I was typing this.

The size
The size should be: 6 cm (2,362 inch) wide by 7 cm (2,755 inch) both, longer, sides
Take a look here to get an idea on how it should look like in general. It's up to you to chose either to go for the straight lines or use something totally different.

The color
Color of choice for this design is: black
All the lines, all the shapes... everything is to be done with black color on white background.

Submission
You can submit your work by leaving me a note with 3 (three) thumbnails in it.
Each work must have a comment - description line stating that the image is submitted for the Tattoo Design Contest including my avatar.

Voting
Final voting for 1st and 2nd prize will be done by the team of 5 people.
Voting stops on August 1st, noon, London time.
Winners will be announced on August 5th.
From 1st until 5th all viewers can vote for their favorite design. Winner of this voting will be featured together with those who got 1st and 2nd prize for whole month.

Contest is opened from June 8th '08. and will end on August 1st '08., noon, London time.
Winners will be announced on August 5th '08.
One entry per participant
Each participant is allowed to submit 3 (three) images in total, send all in one submission
You can enter this contest with images previously submitted to other contests, just modify it to fit the rules (shape, dimension, color, etc.)
Submitted images, when full viewed, must be at least 800 pixels wide (according to dA standard)
Submitted images may have watermark
Submitted images must be done with black ink
Image shape should be upside down triangle-ish as described above
Real image size (printed size) should be 6cm (2,362 inch) by 7cm (2,755 inch) by 7cm (2,755 inch)

1st prize> 2 years subscription to DeviantART
2nd prize> 6 months subscription to DeviantART
3rd prize> 1 month feature with the 1st & 2nd winning design in my journal, plus a feature in

June 10th ... ~donutdan4114 submitted his work:

June 24th ... ~Justenjoyinglife submitted her work:

Jul 2nd ... ~LilFairie submitted her work: