Prologue: The "Flash" Randomizer! 25 drawings of Accidental "Flash".

 Main Entry:     random
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition:     haphazard, chance
Synonyms:     accidental, adventitious, aimless, arbitrary, casual, contingent, designless, desultory, driftless, fluky, fortuitous, hit-or-miss, incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, objectless, odd, promiscuous, purposeless, slapdash, spot, stray, unaimed, unconsidered, unplanned, unpremeditated

Key onto hit-or-miss, unplanned, unpremeditated. we will talk about it later.

To start off lets talk about Flash.  Flash is usually several designs that are placed on a sheet. These sheets are displayed in tattoo studios on the walls, on racks or in books. Customers can browse through these pictures to choose a tattoo or to get ideas as to what they want.  It is also one of the reasons why certain styles of tattoos are more common then others.  Flash is apart of every tattoo studio, its "whats on the menu" if you will.  Every tattoo artist has done straight flash work on someone.  While the don't like they understand that some times its whats people want.  To me selecting flash without modification is akin to going into a McDonald's and ordering a #1 as the last meal you will ever eat!  Sure it will feed you, but do you really want McDonald's as your last meal?  Its the same way with unmodified Flash.  Sure someone drew it, so its art, but think about how many times some else has; seen, bought, re-printed, re-used, recycled, and tattooed it.  Its going on your skin and its going to be apart of you...make it worth while!

This brings us up to the topic at hand.   The "Flash" Randomizer! 25 drawings of Accidental "Flash"!  Remember how I told you to key on to the words above will here is where is comes into play.  In my research into tattoos I found a common theme to tattoos in general.  A listing of 50 to be exact, each one in order of "commonness"

What I am going to do is try to take 2 entries at random and combine them to make something that is both recognizable as both entries and at the same time something different.  Something that appeals to the person looking for something creative but with the same theme.  I am going to be blogging this as the line work is done, then updating as I color them.

Here is the list.

1. Tribal	2. Star / Nautical Star	3. Cross	4. Angel	5. Wings
6. Maori	7. Dragon	8. Phoenix	9. Butterfly	10. Fairy
11. Lion	12. Celtic Knot	13. Kanji	14. Tiger	15. Rose
16. Heart	17. Zodiac	18. Skull	19. Flowers	20. Pin-up Girl
21. Eagle	22. Crown	23. Sun	24. Anchor	25. Ankh
26. Barbwire	27. Om	28. Bat	29. Swallow	30. Spider
31. Compass	32. Cupid	33. Cherubs	34. Snake	35. Fleur de Lis
36. Haida	37. Sword	38. Dolphins	39. Dragonfly	40. Fish
41. Flames / Fire	42. Gun / Pistol	43. Harley Davidson / Motorcycle	44. Lotus	45. Luck / Clover
46. Musical Notes	47. Scorpion	48. Yin-Yang	49. Dagger	50. Love / Pierced Heart