Colour tattoo of Homer Simpson hugging himself inside a pink frosted donut heart with a Love Thyself banner below, in a bold traditional style on a forearm.

Homer Simpson hugging himself in a donut heart

Traditional · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A cartoon Homer Simpson embraces his own reflection-like double at the centre of a heart-shaped pink donut with multicoloured sprinkles. A pale lilac banner beneath the figures reads LOVE THYSELF, and the design sits on the outer forearm. Thick black outlines and flat, bright yellow, pink and grey fills give it a bold, cartoon-like finish.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Our Alf never ate a doughnut he hadn't made himself, which is why the pink ones with the hundreds and thousands only went in the window on Fridays. Ninety-one and still up at four to knead, flour on his forearms like frost on the spoil heap. He called them hearts, not doughnuts, because the tin he got from the Co-op came shaped like one and he wasn't about to waste a good mould.

Keep reading

The winter the pit shut, the shop went quiet. Nobody had coppers for a bun. Alf stood at the counter with a tray of unsold hearts and gave them away to the lads hanging about outside the Working Men's Club. When Dennis Hoy asked why he was giving away the lot, Alf said a man needed something to do with his hands besides hold a placard. Peggy, his wife, said he was daft, and she was right, but she bought one anyway.

Peggy went first, in the spring. Alf kept the shop open. One morning I found him in the back room with flour dusted down his good jumper, arms wrapped round the kneading board like it was a person. I'd have laughed if his face hadn't looked so badly sorry for itself. He saw me in the doorway and didn't let go. 'Forty years I've been cuddling a lump of dough,' he said, 'and it's the only thing that never once asked me to get over it.'

Next Valentine's he had the signwriter from Ferryhill paint a lilac banner across the window. I told him it was soppy. He said LOVE THYSELF was the only instruction he'd ever managed to follow properly, then sold me the last heart for tuppence, which we both knew was a lie, because nobody in the village had tuppence left by then.

More like this

Colour tattoo of Winnie the Pooh seen from behind, looking up at a pink and blue butterfly perched on his nose, outlined in bold black on skin.
Winnie the Pooh with a butterfly
Colour tattoo of a green cartoon bear holding coloured balloons that spell ASS and HOLE, with a cannabis leaf on its belly, on the thigh.
Care Bear with balloons and cannabis leaf
Colour tattoo of a grey kitten with blue eyes inside a pink lace heart with a yellow bow, in a vintage neo-traditional style on the upper thigh.
Grey kitten in a pink lace heart on a thigh
Black outline tattoo of two elephants touching trunks with a small red heart, above Roman numerals, on the lower leg.
Two elephants with red heart on a limb
Black linework cartoon cat with pink cheeks and red inner ears, with a Love yourself script across its body, on the upper arm.
Cartoon cat with Love yourself script
Colour tattoo on a thigh showing a round cartoon character in glasses holding a sugar skull, with teal banners reading Sympathy for the Unusual, in a neo-traditional style.
Cartoon character with banners on thigh
Traditional style colour tattoo of a bald cartoon character eating popcorn from a striped bucket inside a pink scalloped heart on the thigh.
Cartoon character eating popcorn in a heart
Colour traditional-style tattoo of Homer Simpson crouching in green leaves above a blue ribbon banner reading Praise Jebus, on the upper leg.
Homer Simpson with Praise Jebus banner
Small black-outlined elephant with grey shading reaching up to a pink heart balloon, tattooed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Elephant holding a pink heart balloon
Colour tattoo of cartoon Milhouse from The Simpsons on a skateboard on the thigh, with banners reading Everything's Coming Up and Milhouse, in a traditional style.
Milhouse on a skateboard on a thigh
Fine line black tattoo of a dog and a cat on the upper back, with the words always in my heart in script curving beneath them.
Dog and cat with script on the upper back
Colour cartoon tattoo of a minion climbing out of a dirt mound beside a grey gravestone and a shovel, on a man's side above the waistband.
Minion climbing out of a grave on the side

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.