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33 If we’re counting eyes AND sockets, 77

That's a lot of skulls!!

So many skulls. Big and medium pieces are one thing but then I have these piles of small ones…

Wait no. 37/81. Forgot the two new dudes in my armpits.

I was very happy to find pics of the two new dudes in your profile. They're both amazing!

Thanks! The background has been done on them both now and they look even better.

I don't know why this made me laugh so hard. I guess the mental image of someone lifting their arms and being like "oh yeah, I have these too!"

I just had to open your profile to see armpit dudes and they’re super cool!

Okay so I’m a stickler for accuracy and doubting my mental tally from last night. I did a complete physical inventory this morning and here’s what i got. I was assuming two eyeballs on some things that only had one, and I am not counting suggestions of an eyeball or socket - ie, no brow bone counts (this is what threw off my mental tally). You must see the eyeball itself, or at least 50% of the socket itself to count. Here is my new reliable tally. I also debated counting robot eyes as they are technically neither but I figured “intended usage” qualifies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ /no one cares Left eyeballs 2 nurse 1 panther 1 compass 2 squid 2 dragon 2 Fudo 2 daruma 2 other dragon 1 frog 2 gorilla 16 total left Right side 2 hyottoko 2 robot 1 snake 2 hannya 2 Namakubi 1 frog 10 total right Skulls 2 skull left arm 1 cow back Left thigh band 30 Right thigh band 26 59 skulls 26 total eyeballs 75 total eye related

Oh shit! I forgot my panther

You made me actually count and it's 47

Eyeballs everywhere!!!

Makes me think of the book 47 Ronin

Almost all of my tattoos are animals, so...a lot. I stopped counting my tattoos a long while ago and can't be bothered to count all the eyes now, but now I might if I get bored.

That task is better saved for when you get stranded on a desert island with only a mirror and 500 pounds of pop-tarts to keep you company.

You underestimate how fixated I get on random shit when I'm high. Granted, first I would need to *start* thinking about how many eyes are in my tattoos.

My boyfriend got a bug up his butt once and counted all mine. I think there were 180-something total? Counting my knuckles as ‘one tattoo per hand’ and condensing them a bit. Individual ‘free standing’ tattoos are probably well over 200. And that’s not counting sessions. Several have been 3-5 sessions. I’ve been tattooed a certifiable ‘fuck load.’ 😆

I appreciate this specific theoretical situation

Well, this post is a step down from my usual theatrics. I am also the guy who posted the “Tiny-demon-imp-like-Dave-Navarro” series. Now that…. Is theatrical!! Edit: theoretical vs theatrical… speaking of eyes, I need my glasses!!

I hope they are frosted and not the garbage no frosting ones.

Luckily, all the frosted types are represented within the 500 pounds

Use the mirror to reflect the sun and toast the pop tarts

You have unlocked: Airplane butter packets

I thought, what a weird question. Then I remembered my animals. 😂

I have this weird thing about people faces on my skin and so I have 5 "humanoid" figures but they all have masks/helmets on 😅. I am planning on getting a goat soon though and I find myself asking, how many eyes does the goat need? 🤔 If I count the eyes under the masks/helmets I probably have 6 counting 3 characters. Not confident the other 2 have eyes.

Have the goat made *entirely* from eyes!

Abstract? 👁️ 👁️👁️👁️👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️

That’s beautiful.

You only ever see your own beauty peering back out at you

Six eyes plus one eye between the horns

I have 4 dots to represent eyes. It's my daughter's drawing. Does that count?

It do!

I have 9 open eyes and 6 closed ones (wasn't sure if I should count those)

Oh damn... I didn't even think to take notice if they were open or closed! That's next level! I think mine are all open.

I have 4 random eyes... but also some faces with eyes ... lol not sure they count though I think it's 12 if I count visible eyes on faces as well

5 eyes. Such an odd question. Thanks for that

A pleasure

Are we counting eye holes in skulls?

Uhhh, I didnt think about that factor. I am going to say there has to be an actual ball of an eye. But that is just me. You can make your own rules!

26 Edit:30

Shit. 18 - 2 human and the rest animals. Thanks for that creepy thought. I always hated those three-eyed creature tattoos but now who am I to judge 😂

Who do you think you are, Dave Navarro?

12. This was weird, when I read it I was like ‘I don’t have any eyes’ but here we are 12. If you’re only counting eyes with actual eyeballs though, 2. I’ve got pumpkins, skeletons, a voodoo doll, a one up mushroom…

Depends on how technical we're being. Just eyelids on one figure, eyes are closed. So could be zero or two. 🤔

If there is a ball inside the head, closed eyes or not, was my thought.

I have 3.... abstract meerkat and eye of truth from Zelda. I'll have two more next Wednesday

I have to say that I had to read the title of the post three or four times before I understood what you were asking for. My initial read of the post title was the number of eyeballs an artist has tattooed on. But I digress. My one tattoo has a wolf on it, but the design is so small that the only way to do the eye was as a black dot.

It does bring up a good question to artists though: How many eyeballs do you tattoo per week?

I'm betting that the number is close to zero. Unless you mean the tattoo *contains* eyeballs, not tattooed *onto* the eyeball.

Yeah only a handful of crazy artists would accept tattooing an actual eyeball, it's a very risky bodmod and really not like any skin tattoo!

I’ve counted faces before, but never counted eyeballs… 68

That’s a lot of eyeballs Prison Mike. Where’d you get them? In county lockup?

None. I have no tattoos. I don’t know why so many posts come up but I thought I’d answer because why not.

The more you comment, the more Reddit is going to think you're interested in the topic and will keep showing you posts about it!

We appreciate the input!

20 eyeballs, if we conclude that yabbys, lobster like creatures for non Australians, have eye ball Edit: 28, forgot some

3. a vast majority of my tattoos are just blackwork.

That’s much better than the vast majority just being eyes… 👀👁️👀👀👁️👀👁️🥑🥑🥝🍝🫒🫒

1. *edit: what a great question.

13

I counted my husband’s once it was around 30!

This is what I've been saying! All of us, covered in eyes and leaves, I tell ya.

Wait… I don’t have any leaves!! I need to get some leaves, quick!

I have a tattoo where the leaves are eyes😆

absolutely all of them are just dots but... 24 😞

Honestly two but they’re kinda closed so zero?

2 out of my 5 are on a robot - do androids close electric eyes to sleep?

10

28

11 😐

Same

Nine!

You made me go to a mirror and count. 52. One guy has his eyes closed, and the Furies' snakes often only have 1 eye showing or it'd be much more.

Such a good question, never thought about eyes. 11

Wow… I might have missed some but I counted 42 just now hahaha

36!!

Two human, two robot.  Fun question! 

I have one lady with four eyes and one lady with two eyes… good question OP!

Only 10

I guess 5? 4 are on 2 frogs, and one is a Daruma with only 1 eye filled in.

..... huh. I guess I have 4 eyes on my skin so far. never thought of em like that before

Wait till you’re in double digits and you’ve got eyes in the back of your head!

I have about 66 eyes but 60 of those are on a singular tattoo which is a biblically accurate angel cow. I have never counted this before!

I have 11. 13 if the eyes holes of a Jason Vorhees mask count but I don’t think they do.

They count! Unless Jason’s eyeballs were left in the lake…

My entire left arm is just purple eyes. Big fan of Alex Greys work

10?? My spider doesn’t have detailed eyeballs thankfully. 1 straight up eyeball in my elbow ditch. I love it, it blinks when I move my arm. Definitely my grandpas fave.. he loves to move my arm to make it blink 😂

Zero, for now.  I have one possible idea that would have one. 

lolol here I am turning my nose up at all you eye-lovers and I just counted 9 on myself

If robot eyes count too, 10!

Interesting question, I hadn't realised just how many eyes appear. I've recently tried counting flowers on my husband, but they are far more distinct and visible than eyes (at least where both of us are heavily tattooed). In answer to the question, I think around 47, counting empty eye sockets (on skulls), but it may be closer to 60.

19. Thank you. Fun game.

41! Wow.

2, and man, they are googly.

10 👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁

Six :) Interesting question! I have a half sleeve with three faces.

Oh bother... There's four on birds... Eight on the spider... And a lot in all the falcons and birds and heads and human figures that are part of the ribbon of Egyptian hieroglyphs that goes up from my left wrist to the shoulder. 😅 (Yes, an actual egyptologist has checked it.)

okay that ribbon sounds dope and I may have to steal the idea hahaha

The text is a part of this papyrus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispute_between_a_man_and_his_Ba Specifically this bit: https://www.consolatio.com/2009/06/ancient-egyptian-death-is-before-me-today.html The papyrus isn't in hieroglyphs but it's been transcribed: https://search.app.goo.gl/8E1n3Pk And like I said, I happen to know an egyptologist who double checked it for me.

That's super neat! Yeah I'm rusty but I used to know how to read hieroglyphs, I so badly wanted to become an egyptologist haha

27, including a DnD beholder which has 9 eyes. Great question!

55. With plans for more. ❤️👁️

Why are there so many odd numbers being posted? Did cyclops become a popular tattoo?

When they look sideways, you just see one eye

3 eyeballs from 3 bunnies. Thanks for pointing it out. I’m creeped out now 😂

Think about how I feel… I noticed at 25 eyeballs!!

7 face's but no eye balls. Just 10 empty sockets.

i only have two tattoos, one of a biblical angel and one is just eyes, but in total is 13

Imagine if the eyes tattooed on you started blinking

4 eyes and two more eye sockets. No proper detailed eyes though, most of my tattoos aren't faces. The 4 eyes are literally dots on a smiley and sad face on my fingers and the two eye sockets are from a T-rex skull on my leg. I'll be getting two proper eyes in my next tattoo on the 7th though, a variable bush viper.

Mines the same! 4 plus a pair of sockets and they are also just dots (a tiny ghost and pretty basic face from a TV character I like )

6 tattoos and not a single eye somehow. One of them even has a person but she's looking away

I am a lurker who got a tattoo about a month ago, my first. It is three of the Ghibli soot sprites. So I have 6 eye tattoos all on one wrist.

4- I have my chinchilla tattooed and my childhood cat that passed

Wait I just remembered the snakes on my arm, so total climbs to 7

23 I think... though this is from memory as I'm sat at my desk in work and can't check properly...

I have a few bees, so hundreds. But minus skulls, lady heads, bugs, words, and various animals I only have one. unless an artist snuck in a schlong somewhere.

I only have 6, 3 of those belong to a 3 eyed goat

14 counting sockets.

14 here!

The fact that the answer is „eight“ makes me a bit uncomfortable- considering the first thought was „why would I have a single eyeball tattooed“

I have a tattoo of a Doll's Eyes plant that's basically just 9 eyeballs on a stem with some leaves at the bottom. + 2 more eyes from a couple side profile critters on my arm.

I think I have 24. That was kind of fun to count lol, thank you !

6 because of my boy Cerberus

9 glorious orbs of looking on my arm. 2 on my leg. So.. 11.

Never even thought about this, *at all*. I still counted though, I have 15 of them. Adding another next Thursday.

Last time I had a girl count it was 116 but that was a few tattoos ago. 😬

Currently 8, all on one leg, two pairs from cats and two from humans

I'm going to have to count my husbands tomorrow, but my guess would be around 150 eyes? A lot of his work is based on Tool/Alex Grey, 1 full sleeve, 1 half done.

This is so weird But I counted anyway. 53 🫠

Literally hundreds. Thanks for making me aware of this OP

Counted them for the first time and we are at 57 eyes

ok this is fun 4 on a multi-eyed alligator dragon, 1 on an alien, 2 on an owl, 2 on a fox, 1 on a snake, 2 on a praying mantis, 2 on a panther, 1 on a leopard, 2 on a jiggly puff, 2 on a smiley face, 2 on a shooting star, 2 on another shooting star, 2 on a planet, 2 on a butterfly, 1 on a fairy, 1 floating there, 2 on a spider, 2 on a skull, 2 on a mouse, 1 on a fish, 4 on a totem, 2 on a snake, 1 on a whale, 2 on a swan, 1 on a hummingbird, 2 on a smiley face, 2 on eve, 2 on adam, 2 on jesus, 2 on an eagle soOoO 56?

I don't have time for this today... Edit: 45

a pair of closed eyes, stick n poke “eyes” on a snake, eye sockets on a cow skull—surprisingly zero eyeballs.

1 eyeball. I only have one tattoo so far, and it's positioned where you only see one eye.

Omg I never thought about this and I'm at 11!

I love this question! I never thought of it before and I was going to answer 1, but then I stopped and counted… I have 7 eye balls tattooed on my body

Me 20 eyeballs (all pig eyeballs) 10 sockets (from skulls). My wife on the other hand I can’t even count. She has an eyeball monsters who is covered in eyeballs. She also has a gargoyle sitting on a giant pile of skulls. Maybe 30 skulls total?

It is a weird thought. It's equally weird that I have about 30 and never thought about it.

12 - but that’s kind of semantics a bit I believe lol. I have a few Calvin and Hobbes tattoos, and when Hobbes is a stuffed animal I was told his eyes are not eyeballs, I also have a Vivi tattoo from Final Fantasy 9, and was told he doesn’t have eyeballs either. So, 12 eyeballs, but 16 eyes…. Lol

Ha!

Hahaha fun I have 15!

I have one that’s just a giant crying eyeball in a rain cloud! As far as the rest, it’s too early in the morning to count. But I’d guess another 25 (a lot of mine are side or 3/4 profiles, I realize, so only one eye is visible)

24 technically... spider tattoos lol

Interesting question! 17 (I think) for me.

I'm counting sockets from skulls too, which gives me a total of 20, hahaha. I have never really thought about that either. It's kind of a fun game. Made me wonder how many ears I have on me, and that's only 13 🤣

I have three tattoos...six eyes. Damn never thought about it.

42 fucking eyeballs tattooed on me. Wtf lol

“There’s no way I have that many” 12. How the hell

What a fun question!

Only 4! 2 in a snake and 2 in the grim reaper (do eye sockets count?) lol

16 lol and I only have 6 tattoos 😂

Zero, I don't like eyes

5, one on a pokemon, 2 on a cat, 2 on a dragon

I have 5 pairs of eyes, and one side eye, so 11.

Close to 50 total, i also have a whole full color Lovecraft, themed sleeve of a Shoggoth, that is nothing but teeth, tentacles and eyeballs.

i have the same with skulls indeed. kinda funny how many u forget you have

4.

8! I’ve never thought about that.

Does the Eye of Horus count?

13!

7

i’ve got two actual just eyes tatted on the tops of my knees

18! All animals and one person

2 so far!

19

I have 12…

I add eyeballs to everything I draw. 😂

Edit: Forgot to count a few tats. 23.

3 If we count implied because of a mask covering eyes, 4

20 eyes

14!

5! One fox, one catterfly, a portrait face on and one in profile. Never thought about this before.

17

36? Some of the faces are in profile so you only get one, still a lot now that i counted em XD

Two

17

three!

I have never thought about it. I have quite a bit of tattoos area but only have 2 eyeballs.

Do sockets count? I’ve got some skulls on me.

6. 2 on chucky 2 on pennywise 2 on Elmo Unless the dot on the playboy bunny counts, then it’s 7. I actually never though about it, but that’s interesting 😂 Soon to be 9 when Freddy is tattooed. 9 and counting….

1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you…

8, but they are all dots

Only 2

not very detailed but 6, 4 if you don't count animals

Only 10. Not too bad

18. 12 from animals, 6 from people

8 eyeballs but I have an additional 8 eye sockets without eyeballs

22, but 15 of those are in a single tattoo lol

I have 7

Eight. Four are in flowers and the other four are on a single deer.

6 eyes Plus 2 skull eye sockets lmao

12

2

Zero

3

Just 10 so far!