Once I got back home, though, I did some searching and found an image that shows the details of the Wolf Pack tattoo. It's actually more intricate than it appeared from a distance. I saw the larger wolf face immediately, but I actually had to stare at it for about 2 minutes before I saw the two smaller wolves facing each other. It's a bit like an ink blot image but more balanced and purposeful.
How and why they got the tattoos was not explained in the movie, and the presence of tattoos weren't in the book at all that I recall, so I'm guessing that it was creative license on the part of the production crew. It would have been nice to have seen some kind of story behind the application of the tattoos as some sort of initiation into the pack. I'm hoping to talk to some people this week who might be able to shed some light on this for me and my fellow Twilight fans. Keep checking back.
If you've seen the new Star Trek movie (recently released on DVD/Blu Ray), then you know that there are some interesting tattoos on the Romulan characters. What you may not know is how much thought and work goes into creating movie tattoos like the ones worn by Nero and his crew. Actually, I didn't know either, so I spoke with Neville Page, one of the head design artists for the movie, to find out what it took to design and apply the tattoos for this film.