This is pretty much the last time I will be able to make a comment. The two best designs right now are 2421 and 2424.

I think 2421 looks the best on a computer, but I have serious doubts on how someone will be able to tattoo that on the a body and get that much fine detail.

Gamachi,

I really like your newest design. Can you make these few small changes? Get rid of the palm trees in the far background and replace them with two or three bird in the sky. Not to much but similar to the other designs. Submit that as one design, and I would also like to see if you messed with the blue color to see how it looks if you did something similar to 2421 with the different shades of blue. (Have the birds in that one as well)

Thanks everybody for there work on this, and it looks like I'm going to get something that I really like.

Gamachi

I like the concept of your designs, but I'm not a big fan of the beach/island idea that you used in the last one. I think 2396 is a lot better than the newest one. Maybe you could work off of 2396, keep the sun hammock and palm trees the same, but work on the island.

TheWhaler,

I really like your idea. Can you please remove some of the fine detail in the design and see what it looks like. I'm a big fan of the sun in the background behind the trees, and the blue ocean in the background. I really the birds also. (Kind of worried about the blue in the background on my skin, however, I talked to two tattoo artists, and they said the purple is the biggest problem on brown skin) I guess the leave the color the same right now. Also, can you please make a design and see what it looks like if you have one or two people laying on beach chairs or on a towels laying on the beach.

Thanks.

Groovy mom can you make a design that would have a sun in the back ground as well. Any only one chair. I also worry that this is so much detail that it won't look the same when someone puts that on my skin. (Should I worry about that?)

Gamachii, I like the simplicity of your design, but it's not really what I'm looking for.

I think both of these designs are above average, but not exactly what I'm looking for. Maybe something that combines the simplicity of Gamachii with features of Groovy mom. If that makes sense.

Thank you for that info. WIll help us all and you as well.

Great work gamachii, beautiful and balanced design.

I of Indian decent (from India), so my skin color is medium brown. I think if you were to look up Sanjay Gupta in images my skin color is the same as his.

Maybe we should ask just how dark your skin is. light brown, chocolate, ebony? Can you take a photo so we can see? When reading it said the darker the skin the less colors that will show up. lighter brown skin you can still use some color but it wont be vibrant (looking around image forums) and darker skin they are using only black.. I think a photo of your shoulder or something would help. :)

I honestly dont know how the colors would turn out.. So I wont enter. How bad would that be if you got a design and then it doesnt work.

I read the link given by gamachii but it doesnt help too much.. maybe there should be a forum post to post pictures of tattoos on darker skin.. So all the artists on here would know how to handle a design like that...

You might like to read this article.

http://www.newyorktattoo.com/blog/tattoing-tips/tattooing-on-dark-skin

If you have a tattoo artist picked out already, it wouldn't hurt to ask them what colors they would use on your skintone, if any.

Hopefully this helps you deciding on what you would like for a design.