Full Back Piece Thread

[SeeSea]

looks great seesea

hammerhead!

30+hours - wow

Thanks! I love my Hammie.

The 30+ was how long it's been since the session ended. This tattoo took more than twice that. It is sooo nice to write that in the past tense.

[Fala]

Yay @SeeSea!!! You did it and your back looks ahmazing!!!!!!

[Cork]

Grats @SeeSea. You've earned it.

[KBeee]

Any LSTers have this awesome Stewart Robson backpiece I am obsessing on (circa 2011)? I really need to see the finished pics. He's like crack. I can't give him up. I don't want to travel for work anymore buuuuut....

[kylegrey]

Pretty sure that ^ belongs to @asradin who has lots of stuff from Stewart .

[KBeee]

Pretty sure that ^ belongs to @asradin who has lots of stuff from Stewart .

And alas, no gallery pics. Thanks @kylegrey!

[kelzu]

And alas, no gallery pics. Thanks @kylegrey!

It's in this loooong thread somewhere @KBeee, I was looking at it recently

[Iwar]

Any LSTers have this awesome Stewart Robson backpiece I am obsessing on (circa 2011)? I really need to see the finished pics. He's like crack. I can't give him up. I don't want to travel for work anymore buuuuut....

I wanted to see it again too :) I love that tattoo.

[kelzu]

I wanted to see it again too :) I love that tattoo.

Wow!

[KBeee]

I wanted to see it again too :) I love that tattoo.

Thanks so much for digging it out @Iwar :D

If a tattoo could have groupies I would be one.

[asradin]

@KBeee thanks, it was an awesome experience to get. Most of my torso is now pretty much full now as well. All by Stewart.

[MGblues]

I'm not sure if I ever posted a picture of my back when it was finished. Anyway, here it is.

(found a better picture)

[Scott Althen]

this is my back, done by Russ Abbott, I think right after it was finished, roughly 5 years ago now I think.

[SeeSea]

@Scott Althen - Holy shit my jaw just dropped. Wow. Just wow.

[KBeee]

@KBeee thanks, it was an awesome experience to get. Most of my torso is now pretty much full now as well. All by Stewart.

Oh man! Lucky duck!!!

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That's incredible @Scott Althen !

[Kinglambert]

Here's a pic from my most recent session with Fill Wood @Black Crown Tattoo in Leeds.

Instagram

We'll be starting colour next time

[Patrick Bateman]

@Scott Althen Yeah man that is on point!!!

[lilazn561]

Damn!!amazing ass tattoos! Kind of making me think about getting a full back tat

[Diehardonvhs]

Progress on my skinny ass. Been a long break since last time due to the tattoo studio moving premises - Back to regular sessions now so hopefully some more updates coming! Looking to finish the whole thing by summer. The sessions never get any easier...

By Mark Armstrong, Sacred Art tattoo studio, Manchester UK.

[Shaggy]

Bit of a long break from LST but I am still alive and slowly chipping away at my backpiece.

Had a decent break from tattooing over xmas which was great but back to the grind now.

The snake has taken quite a while but almost finished now. Each scale of the snake has 3-4 different shades of green so has chewed through some time.

[Thailawson]

Lovely traditional piece.

Who is doing it?

From Oz, I really like Adam kitamoto's work.

How many hours you got on that thing?

[SeeSea]

Big reveal in the wild. Diving in the Maldives. On this trip, I saw several of the creatures on my back, which was pretty cool.

The response from my dive buddies was overall pretty positive, and it changed a few attitudes towards tattoos. I had been chatting with three of the women before I let them know I had done it, and unrelated to my tattoo, they all spoke down on tattoos, including the "Why would someone do something permanent - your tastes will change over time" and the "What will it look like when you get old?" Sigh. One of these women really liked it and said it was the best she had ever seen, and she is in the medical field and has seen a lot of bare skin. A lovely woman from Austria was just in love with it and gushed about my "sea" that I can take with me. :-)

[Graeme]

@SeeSea It looks incredible. It's cool to see a picture like that too. Hope you were wearing some high-SPF sunscreen!

[MrToby]

So it's been a couple of months since I last updated the progress on my back. The shading sessions are just so much nicer for me than the outline. I think I May have even fallen asleep at points during the session in January. There was no chance of that this week though as the studio was pretty cold despite the heater just next to the bench. I ended up putting half my jacket back on the side that wasn't getting tattooed.

Anyway enough rambling this is how it is looking now:

p.s. @SeeSea your back piece has come out great. Congratulations.

[SeeSea]

@SeeSea It looks incredible. It's cool to see a picture like that too. Hope you were wearing some high-SPF sunscreen!

Thanks!

Oh, let there be no doubt in your mind. After tons of research I did last year, these are three of the ones I am using, along with a Neutrogena one I must have purchased elsewhere. Amazon makes it easy to drop in and repeat orders :)

Wetsuits are also SPF 2,000,000.