For our superhero-specific design assignment, I decided to go with the “Super Tattoo” assignment. I also figured it would be a good fit to incorporate my superhero character, so rather than design one for myself, I designed it for Little Rascal.

Here’s what I wound up with:

The design is supposed to be Professor X. I wanted the tattoo to be both a movie reference and a nod to her powers, so I designed a minimalist Professor X from the X-Men. Little Rascal and Professor X have very similar power, so the reference felt appropriate. I made it minimalist because I didn’t picture her having too flashy of a tattoo, and I thought keeping to just these details would make it funnier. Also, I think she’d just get a kick out of having a bald man on her forearm.

I tried designing it in Canva first, but I didn’t have quite enough flexibility. It looked like clip-art put together – contrasting styles and all. Rather than scrapping it though, I saved the image and put it in Pixlr, where I was able to thicken some of the lines and erase some of the others, making the style more uniform.

This week, I decided to complete the Super Tattoo assignment as a part of design week. However, instead of creating a tattoo that describes me as it states in the description of the assignment, I created one for my character Morph Shadow. Morph Shadow’s tattoo is very subtle and simple, as her identity is kept secret and it is based on her identity. Her tattoo is located behind her ear and is the initials of her secret identity, M.S.

Morph Shadow, aka Melinda, hates that her identity has to be secret, but feels as though it is necessary. Because she does not want to leave Morph Shadow out of her life, she got a tattoo to commemorate her. When asked about it, Melinda says that they are her mom’s initials, as her mom has passed and she wants her to always be apart of her.

Super Tattoo

For this assignment I had to create a tattoo that reflects my superhero. I am not big on tattoos nor do I have one but this assignment seemed like something neat to do. Since my superhero is a super chef I had to incorporate chef stuff into her tattoo. I decided to do that tattoo because I used to have a shirt that was similar with a skull wearing a chef hat and a knife and whisk under it and it was my favorite shirt because of that. Her tattoo is black and white because I like those tattoos better than color ones. It says “’til death do us apart” because she loves to cook and the only think that will part her from cooking is death. Since I added that quotes, the skull seemed fitting. I used photoshop to remove the backgrounds of the images I picked and put all the pieces of this tattoo together.