Preliminary design

I've been working on the tattoo design that I mentioned in an earlier post, trying to figure out what looked good. And so I tinkered around with Paint for awhile, and this is what I've come up with for starters...tell me what you think! (I think everything might end up being in black ink, to keep things as simple as possible.)

Later...

I got some input, and made a cool edit to the earlier design, something to give it a little more "personality." Here's a revised version: