To fill or not to fill? The space between...

[gougetheeyes]

who did that panther poking out on the inside of your bicep it looks great

Mr. Mario Desa

[Scott R]

very nice

[Cork]

I feel as though it was subliminal for me to check out this thread. Talk of squat and dead lifting nary sneaks under my radar. I take it one of you is crossfit and the other is a powerlifter? I share your enthusiasm for dot and spider fillers as well as barbell antics.

I really like the look of fillers, it brings it all together and just makes it look complete.

[hogg]

If you think I'm a powerlifter, than I can only assume you haven't looked at my gallery. :)

[Cork]

Ah yes, I have seen your gallery. Power lifters come in all shapes and sizes though. You never know who competes in what these days. I know a couple 165lb lifters and I'd never guess what they were capable of if I hadn't seen it first hand.

[gailhopper]

amazing tattoos !!!!

[Trae]

Fill em up!!!!

[alie k]

Stars and dots or spiderwebs. Otherwise, you end up looking like a doodle pad (unless that's the look you want).

[David Flores]

I am starting to fill in, actually I am about halfway through since I last posted. I have done some more stars and dots and some colored smoke on one forearm with a spiderweb on my elbow and some skull smoke on the other arm with a modified windswirl with lightning bolt on the other. They are looking pretty gnarly now, but will post when healed. I am really happy, considering on how it looks, especially since I was never concerned with being sleeved, I just got a bunch of tattoos on my arms till I ran out of room.

[Ursula]

@David Flores hahaha you just reminded me of when i stated getting tattoos and my mom asked me "Are you going to get those things they call sleeves?" hahahahaha She had seen some newspaper article about tattoos where they used "sleeve".

[appleadam]

What does everyone think of having their a few seperate peices on your torso/stomach and then having stars and dots for filler?

and who would you recommend to go to for it, perhaps someone at smith st? I'd imagine it to be a tedious job

[mtlsam]

I was at smith street a few months ago. I asked a couple of the guys about stars and dots; Eli says that the other guys do it better than he does (maybe he just doesn't like doing it) and Steve says get all your big pieces done, then get one person to do all the fill. That way it will all match up. It doesn't sound like it takes that long to do.

Good luck.

[SStu]

but I'll bet it takes forever to prepare the stencil!!!

[appleadam]

I was at smith street a few months ago. I asked a couple of the guys about stars and dots; Eli says that the other guys do it better than he does (maybe he just doesn't like doing it) and Steve says get all your big pieces done, then get one person to do all the fill. That way it will all match up. It doesn't sound like it takes that long to do.

Good luck.

thanks! yeah I was thinking that, I'm a while off that stage yet but sort of planning ahead haha, by the way do you know anything about how smith street deal with people flying in to get largescale work? I would like to get my back done by steve and 3-4 round flights from the uk would for sure make it too expensive

[Jack]

@appleadam call them. they're nice people.

[Pablo]

Some of the fills look really good!! Can't wait till I'm 'heavy' enough to have that dilemma ?