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Sep 15, 2005

Tattoos on other people are awesome

My wife is considering getting a new tattoo. Yep. She’s more badass then I am.

She’s from Sweden. More specifically she’s from an area in the south know as SmÃ¥land (that’s small land) It’s a province so old that’s it’s got its own old-school coat of arms; complete with lion and crossbow. What more could you want in a tattoo?

What’s my part in all of this? You mean other than being the supportive husband?

Unfortunately, the largest image of SmÃ¥land’s coat of arms in all of the vast internets is about 100px tall. There’s not a tattoo artist alive who could pull a detail-quality tattoo out of a severly compressed 100px jpg. Can I? Well…

Here’s the source imagery. (Props to International Civic Heraldry)

Some color-range-selecting, work-path-making, exporting-paths-to-Illustrator, and manual-massaging-anchor-points kung fu later we have this:

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