Full Back Piece Thread

[Pugilist]

@ThatGuy - I love when I gawk at awesome shit on IG and then find out it's on a poster! Totally worth the nausea. :)

I am not sure if I ever posted my completed back on here. Done by Stephanie Tamez at Saved in Brooklyn, from summer 2012 to summer 2013. I loved the journey and love the tattoo(s?) and it feels like it's been on my back forever. The map was my first ever tattoo from a long long time ago that we worked around, although she pumped it up a bit to integrate it into the larger composition.

[beez]

@Pugilist it is so good!!! It looks great!!!! Thank you for posting!!! I love the stylized fill. Looks great!

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@ThatGuy damn that is a powerful piece. You win!

[ian]

Sick helmet. How many sessions in are you now?

that is 5 sessions. I'm so stoked with the progress and I'm determined to save any extra money to go up and get this finished. I couldn't be happier with it :)

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@ThatGuy - I love when I gawk at awesome shit on IG and then find out it's on a poster! Totally worth the nausea. :)

I am not sure if I ever posted my completed back on here. Done by Stephanie Tamez at Saved in Brooklyn, from summer 2012 to summer 2013. I loved the journey and love the tattoo(s?) and it feels like it's been on my back forever. The map was my first ever tattoo from a long long time ago that we worked around, although she pumped it up a bit to integrate it into the larger composition.

very beautiful...

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Almost done

dude, SO FUCKING SICK!!

[Fala]

Looks great @Pugilist! I too love the stylized fill.

[Bunny Switchblade]

First from Dana's Instagram, second from my own phone.

So much coverage from this session. All the fire and the blue. The next few days are going to suck.

I am heading down to Read Street tonight to see Dana....and to watch Cork get tattooed! :)

[Pugilist]

Thanks dudes!

[Cork]

Heavy blue session. Not a great pic, but you get the idea. From Dana's instagram. Also, @Bunny Switchblade it was a pleasure to meet you and your husband yesterday. Again, sorry I wasn't a great conversationalist, I thought I'd be doing better off than how I really was!

[Bunny Switchblade]

@Bunny Switchblade it was a pleasure to meet you and your husband yesterday. Again, sorry I wasn't a great conversationalist, I thought I'd be doing better off than how I really was!

It was great to meet you too.....and no worries at all.......it looked pretty intense and Dana was doing a lot of heavy coverage! Can't imagine that was too pleasant!

[punch]

Cork - Awesome work! Dana is one hell of an artist. I got halfsleeve from him late last year/early this year. Can't wait to see your finished product.

[Ragen]

@Cork whoa, that's totally awesome!

Blue sessions are always draining for me... Last time my skin just wouldn't take the blue colour in.. had to ink and re-ink the area 3 times and it still required correction, ugh...

[Cork]

@Ragen thats rough, sorry to hear that. I got lucky with the blue. The first round healed better than any other part so far.

[Ragen]

@Cork I guess we're all very different. Though, my artist did mention that blue ink was really "heavy and thick", so it's normally a pain in the arse..

[SeeSea]

Blue sessions are always draining for me... Last time my skin just wouldn't take the blue colour in.. had to ink and re-ink the area 3 times and it still required correction, ugh...

Is this something that's common? I only had one session on my back fall out - it was some mid- and lighter blues of jellyfish, but not as dark as the blue for @Cork. It needs a re-do, although it didn't have all the layers on top of it anyway so not a big deal. I did have a lot of deep dark blues last time, and they settled in fine.

[EmmaB]

Here's the results of my first sitting for my crane and peonies back piece with Richard Pinch in Aberdeen. I'm delighted with it. It's a bit peely still (sitting was last Thursday) but seems to be healing nicely. As you can see, he made a start on the shading, and there's colour to add too, and it's going to be extended downwards over my bum in time.

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Ack, that's tiny! Oh well, you get the idea. And hello, everyone, by the way!

[Cork]

Looks great @EmmaB That's a lot of lines!

[EmmaB]

Thanks Cork! I know, tell me about it. I felt every single one.

[misterJ]

@EmmaB, first sitting? Wow that looks like a lot of work for one session

That looks really nice so far

[EmmaB]

@misterJ Thank you! Well, it was quite a long sitting - I just managed 7 hours. Shop was open another hour and Richard had noticed he'd missed one of the crane's talons - you can see two little lines sticking out of the back of its front leg - and wanted to go back to it, but I had utterly had enough by then. He was just relentless.

[misterJ]

I was gonna say mine was like 6ish and we barely completed outline. So

I'm gonna assume I'm a lot taller than you :)

Missing things happen on the first pass. My second session was a lot of marker work and mumbling hmmmm let's add this. Then the needle :)

[MikeL]

@Cork that blue is looking insane! Congrats. Got a call on Friday from the shop and Rodrigo had a cancellation on Sunday...so I jumped on it. This was my first true session of color since my arms, chest, and background we have only used black or red. Today was mostly red & old olive green. Wife grab a few pics when she took off the bandages...kind of beat up & bloody though. Try to get some up pics up in a few days.

Mike

[Cork]

@MikeL Not even an Instagram snapshot from Rodrigo... Looking forward to seeing the color!

[MikeL]

@Cork sent you a quick shot over on IG.

[beez]

Damn @EmmaB!! So very nice!!

[EmmaB]

thank you @beez!

[Cork]

@MikeL one of us is Instagramming incorrectly. I don't see it!