I sort of co-opted the KC tattoo...more than a statement of love for the band, it's about the aesthetic that the band's music from that era represents: Something fragile and delicate, within something corrosiver and acidic. Beyond the aesthetic, to me it is also more broadly about my own duality, embracing both the primal and the intellectual, and having them be in harmony rather than opposition.
Generally, I will see an image that somehow resonates with me. Gradually, the image will evolve in my mind, and I put a finer point on what it means to me. Given enough time, I will have an image that means enough to me that I will want to make it a part of me. Unfortunately, I lack the motor skills the even draw a straight line when aided by a ruler, to say nothing of drawing a tattoo, so I have to rely on others for help with the image itself.