Upcoming Tattoos

[Gingerninja]

@grog Excellent! It will be interesting logistically to travel to get your sleeve. 🙂 Sounds like a blast.

[SStu]

I've been following Justin for a while, @grog. Indeed anxious now to hear/see how it goes!

[Oiocha]

Going to see Tomo next weekend and I'm ready to go.  I also haven't forgotten about posting my Daruma: its perpetually got something that wont let me take a clean picture.

[bongsau]

@Oiocha one of the students at our kung fu school got a full colour turtleback from Tomo (at Silkneedle, he was travelling to Japan regularly). It was his first and only tattoo. The details and patterns are insane, got that velvet look. You're pretty lucky, enjoy the ride.

 

[Oiocha]

The ride is wild as hell the whole way but I know I will only ever get to have one back piece, I'm so happy that I could wait and make it count.  There isn't a single other person in my mind I could think of that I would want to do my back, at all, other than Tomo.  I have the rest of the skin real estate for anyone else but the back is special.  I'm saving my pennies and dimes for April/May;  I'm hoping the heavy hitters show up to Jacksonville for the Imperial Tattoo Convention again and maybe if I'm lucky I can go to the Bay Area Con just once at least.

[piccalilli]

On 1/8/2019 at 5:44 PM, Oiocha said:

Going to see Tomo next weekend and I'm ready to go.  I also haven't forgotten about posting my Daruma: its perpetually got something that wont let me take a clean picture.

Ah, we'll miss crossing paths at SoG by mere days!

14 minutes ago, Oiocha said:

The ride is wild as hell the whole way but I know I will only ever get to have one back piece, I'm so happy that I could wait and make it count.  There isn't a single other person in my mind I could think of that I would want to do my back, at all, other than Tomo.  I have the rest of the skin real estate for anyone else but the back is special.  I'm saving my pennies and dimes for April/May;  I'm hoping the heavy hitters show up to Jacksonville for the Imperial Tattoo Convention again and maybe if I'm lucky I can go to the Bay Area Con just once at least.

😸 👍

[JAC1961]

Had a consultation today for my next tattoo.  It will be a tribute to my mom and dad, a pair of red roses with a dagger behind, neo-traditional, solid black and red, done by Mike Schlicher.

Now I just have to survive the long wait until March 21. 😔

[Gingerninja]

Tattoo semi-holiday next week. I need some R&R!!

[Oiocha]

Greg Christian and Kiku at the Jacksonville convention. Maaaaybe more to come if I see some more names.

[Dan]

33 minutes ago, Oiocha said:

Greg Christian and Kiku at the Jacksonville convention. Maaaaybe more to come if I see some more names.

I love Greg's style.

[Sihian]

I'm getting my first tattoo in 12 hours! I've even traveled for it and I'm super excited. The artist said it'd take 7 hours and I really hope that it isn't 7 hours of straight tattooing.. I've packed sweets, two bananas, a book and a switch so I hope that'll be plenty of sugars and entertainment.

Now to hope that I can sleep now that the time to get the tattoo is almost here!

I'll be getting a sword and a bird in the black illustrative style, but I haven't seen the design yet. I can't wait!

[Dan]

1 hour ago, Sihian said:

I'm getting my first tattoo in 12 hours! I've even traveled for it and I'm super excited. The artist said it'd take 7 hours and I really hope that it isn't 7 hours of straight tattooing.. I've packed sweets, two bananas, a book and a switch so I hope that'll be plenty of sugars and entertainment.

Now to hope that I can sleep now that the time to get the tattoo is almost here!

I'll be getting a sword and a bird in the black illustrative style, but I haven't seen the design yet. I can't wait!

sounds good ! don't forget to pre-hydrate tonight(water) ,and also before the tattoo be sure and eat a full healthy meal.The sweets and bananas are  perfect ! bring a few bottles of water to drink during the tattoo.remember to relax and you will do fine.

[BastaDi]

Tattoo on my near spine

[Sihian]

11 hours ago, Dan said:

sounds good ! don't forget to pre-hydrate tonight(water) ,and also before the tattoo be sure and eat a full healthy meal.The sweets and bananas are  perfect ! bring a few bottles of water to drink during the tattoo.remember to relax and you will do fine.

Good idea! I've drank a lot so I hope it'll be fine. The stencil is on my leg now and I'm super excited. I didn't even have to make any changes. It'll take up almost my whole upper leg, as the artist told me the details look better this way, but I don't mind. Not planning to get (many) more tattoos anyways.

[Dan]

1 hour ago, Sihian said:

Good idea! I've drank a lot so I hope it'll be fine. The stencil is on my leg now and I'm super excited. I didn't even have to make any changes. It'll take up almost my whole upper leg, as the artist told me the details look better this way, but I don't mind. Not planning to get (many) more tattoos anyways.

LOL that's what we all say !   but the addiction is strong 

[Sihian]

9 hours ago, Dan said:

LOL that's what we all say !   but the addiction is strong 

Who knows! It hurt a lot though, so I'm not sure if I want to do it again. This piece took me about 6 hours of tattooing plus one hour consult/aftercare.

I'm super happy with it! (I hope pictures are okay in this thread, though it looks more crisp IRL)

Edited February 20, 2019 by Sihian

[Dan]

7 hours ago, Sihian said:

Who knows! It hurt a lot though, so I'm not sure if I want to do it again. This piece took me about 6 hours of tattooing plus one hour consult/aftercare.

I'm super happy with it! (I hope pictures are okay in this thread, though it looks more crisp IRL)

very nice !

[pidjones]

It only takes me a couple days to forget the pain. Your new art looks great!

[scottyg]

50 minutes ago, pidjones said:

It only takes me a couple days to forget the pain. Your new art looks great!

man I wish!

[SStu]

Yeah, you'll forget about the pain. 

That's one reason women have more than 1 baby 😮 😄

[scottyg]

47 minutes ago, SStu said:

Yeah, you'll forget about the pain. 

That's one reason women have more than 1 baby 😮 😄

that's what they say hahahaha

[grog]

Speaking of forgetting about pain! Got these little piggies all done up about a month ago. They healed just fine, with no ink loss to speak of. There's a couple wobbly lines in there and some blowouts, but as I understand it, toes are fickle beasts to ink.

Also, I have two tattoos in the books planned for May. One will be a color landscape of the Swiss Alps, from Bridget Larreau. The other will be a piece of severed snake head flash from Ian Haight, whose crazy color portfolio I just stumbled upon the other day.

I'm still waiting on my sleeve to start and I keep telling myself to hold off on tattoos in the interim to save money, but here we are anyways. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[SStu]

Those toes came out great, @grog. 

[JAC1961]

Geeking so hard about my next tattoo that I had to put a countdown widget on my phone.  Come on Thursday.

[Hands On]

I scheduled a consultation with Melissa Manuel from Humble Beginnings in San Jose to get a Filipino-inspired tribal collar piece.

The consultation isn't until April 29th.

Hooray for links!