Latest tattoo lowdown.....

[marley mission]

tell you what jen placement is perfect too - i also am looking forward to seeing additional progress - happy for ya

edit: oh yeah turtle is on my list too - even more so now - though i'm thinking more sailor jerry :)

[xcom]

@jen7, Amazing work and placement!

Good job!

[Dustingormley]

I told my teacher a funny story that had to do with a gardening experiment and the law. One of his clients canceled the night after so he tattooed this design on me. :cool:

[Isotope]

Ha, thanks. No color, just black and grey shading. Lots more to do with it. I went to the black and grey master, so hopefully it will finish up photorealistic.

It's funny, I showed my back at the start of the session and the only reaction was "lookit all that white skin!" It was a relief for sure.

I definitely cannot wait to see the finished version with detail pics of head, scutes, etc. Awesome. You're stoked. Bravo. :D

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yesterday's session...

[Rikhall]

Some great stuff up here at the moment

[Beans]

Mines creeping up on me. April 10th 3/4 sleeve, @ Painless Steel Montana, Lee. Art work based off Richard Doyle Illustrations ca1890

[Petri Aspvik]

I haven't gotten tattooed in like 5 years... Well, in a local shop started a new artist. Young cool dude, just over twenty, been tattooing for 3 + years or something. I thought that fuck it, he has some potential, I will get tattooed because its time. I first was going to get a chest piece, just a compass rose. But, Murphy's law struck and got a horrible shave rash in my chest. When I went to the shop, we mulled it over and decided not to tattoo the chest.

I remembered he had a Bill Hicks drawing and in 5 minutes we decided to do the late great American Rebel who I have been a fan for about 10 years. He loves to do stuff like this, so I just let him do what he wanted and choose the picture he wanted. Have fun with it. Its now about week old.

We will expand it to a sleeve and then start another sleeve. Next up is Carl Sagan.

https://instagram.com/lekkeri_wct/

If you can guess what part of his act its from, 10 points! We weren't shure and I checked, well, funny shit ;)

[Swifty]

I didn't realize until today that this was the place to post new work. I'm going on Friday to finalize the entire sleeve(at least that's the hope). We'll be filling in all the background that wasn't finished yet and then go over the entire piece to add highlights and really make it pop.

So far, this is what's been done:

https://instagram.com/p/yaAYr2Ry_X/ (This was 3 appointments, I just didn't want to throw a bunch of pictures in, mostly finished top half of the sleeve, there are still some sections that need to be finished).

Started work on the bottom half, finished most of the lioness(about 70% done) in one sitting:

And finally, about 2 weeks ago we did the inner forearm piece, the cubs:

I'm so fucking happy with how the whole sleeve turned out. One more to go on Friday and I should be all set. I can't wait to post a shot of the entire sleeve, finished and healed.

[knucklehead211]

That is awesome work, @Swifty!

[49531]

got this panther a couple weeks ago from curtis pettigrove and the pilot lady about a month ago from harriet heath

[el twe]

^^^Love that panther design. Nice!

[Dustingormley]

I remembered he had a Bill Hicks drawing and in 5 minutes we decided to do the late great American Rebel who I have been a fan for about 10 years. He loves to do stuff like this, so I just let him do what he wanted and choose the picture he wanted. Have fun with it. Its now about week old.

We will expand it to a sleeve and then start another sleeve. Next up is Carl Sagan.

https://instagram.com/lekkeri_wct/

If you can guess what part of his act its from, 10 points! We weren't shure and I checked, well, funny shit ;)

That Hicks tattoo is fantastic. I love me some Bill Hicks, what a rebel.

[jen7]

@Swifty that is awesome who is the artist?

[Swifty]

@Swifty that is awesome who is the artist?

Thanks! It was done by Jesse Rix out of Keene, NH.

[jen7]

Holy crap! That's like 30 minutes from my house!

[joakim urma]

All right. For those who've seen it all ready, for those who've been waiting, for those who don't know what the fuck I talking about, for those who don't care: here is my back now.

Finished this Saturday at the annual Scottish tattoo convention in Edinburgh. Iain Mullen and Rudy Fritsch converged for the first time since we did the lines in June, to do some two machine shading on the lower part and add some extra detail. One more touch up session with Iain in Stockholm and then this experience is over. It's been a great ride on so many levels and if I were to explain how happy I am about the result I would have to invent some new words. Both Iain and Rudy rules and everybody who has the chance to get the chance should really consider getting something from them.

I will post a longer write up on this thread full-back-piece-experience-thread.html shortly, perhaps tomorrow. Right now I have a bad fever to pull through. One good thing about getting tattooed is that, if you do it right, it teaches you how tough you really are. Peace!

[TrixieFaux]

Wow @mmikaoj :cool:

!!!!!

[jen7]

Speechless! Wow!

[pidjones]

So.... right!

[sophistre]

All right. For those who've seen it all ready, for those who've been waiting, for those who don't know what the fuck I talking about, for those who don't care: here is my back now.

So good. I spent whole minutes looking at how it all flows together. If I saw that thing in the wild I'm pretty sure I'd break the 'don't stare like a creeper at the tattoos of strangers' rule.

[bongsau]

@mmikaoj

god damn right! thanks for sharing, that is one good looking tattoo. cool too that you got to experience double machine business, not a lot of people get that opportunity.

[peterpoose]

All right. For those who've seen it all ready, for those who've been waiting, for those who don't know what the fuck I talking about, for those who don't care: here is my back now.

Finished this Saturday at the annual Scottish tattoo convention in Edinburgh. Iain Mullen and Rudy Fritsch converged for the first time since we did the lines in June, to do some two machine shading on the lower part and add some extra detail. One more touch up session with Iain in Stockholm and then this experience is over. It's been a great ride on so many levels and if I were to explain how happy I am about the result I would have to invent some new words. Both Iain and Rudy rules and everybody who has the chance to get the chance should really consider getting something from them.

I will post a longer write up on this thread full-back-piece-experience-thread.html shortly, perhaps tomorrow. Right now I have a bad fever to pull through. One good thing about getting tattooed is that, if you do it right, it teaches you how tough you really are. Peace!

Wow mate, that's gorgeous :)

[smalltownVA]

Picked up this Thin Lizzy "Cowboy Song" themed a couple of week ago from Ethan Franklin at James River Tattoo.

[CultExciter]

@smalltownVA Jason, Ethan has been killing it lately!