Show us your grapefruits.

[Rad Kelham]

By popular request here's the grapefruit thread. I'll post my atrocity first so nobody has to be shy about theirs sucking. This is actually my second one...the first one was a a bunch of freehand garbage and penises just for the sake of learning the machine. This one I drew a design, stenciled it on, and tried to do a good job.

[SeeSea]

Aw jeez, I was only sort-of kidding, but this could be fun. Nice job on the thread title.

[Margarita Yaschenko]

I made a tattoo but never tattooed grapefruit until this summer. This fruit - bad client :) I did not like to work with him))

It was made not for high quality but fo fun skydivers=)

[SeeSea]

...so it's good to sit like a rock but bad to sit like a grapefruit.

[cltattooing]

I have actually never tattooed a grapefruit o____o

[Rad Kelham]

I have actually never tattooed a grapefruit o____o

Was your first one on yourself?

[CultExciter]

Now that I think about it, I had tattooed around 30 people before I tattooed myself. Oooof, and I'm not saying that's a good thing.

[Rad Kelham]

Nice. I'm expected to do one on myself before I work on anyone else. Not excited about that, but its only fair I guess.

[cltattooing]

Was your first one on yourself?

No, it was on a felon with Hep C. Not even joking. :cool:

[chrisnoluck]

i'm about halfway through my apprenticeship right now and have never tattooed a grapefruit or any fruit for that matter. i also haven't tattooed myself either. i've only done 18 tattoos so far but all on my friends. would not be opposed to tattooing myself or fruit, just how i'm being taught he kinda threw me right in to tattooing others first.

[cltattooing]

@chrisnoluck That's how my apprenticeship went and I actually think I'm a lot better for it. There is really nothing out there that responds to the machine like human skin does and in my opinion, a major part of pulling good lines has to do with the reverberations in the skin. I do think it's good to tattoo yourself though, you learn a lot of crucial technique from being on the giving and receiving end simultaneously. I was never told to tattoo myself actually, I just did cause I wanted to haha. My apprenticeship wasn't much by the books.

[SeeSea]

would not be opposed to tattooing myself or fruit....

Clearly, to best participate in this thread, since you are a tattooer, is to go get some fruit!