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jaie is super nice too. if you're in austin you should for sure get work from him. he put this crazy skull on me about a year ago.

I had Ben Grillo jam in a little black and gray skull in a rose between some other pieces on my arm. I'm very happy with it. He also added an itsy bitsy spider and some single-needle webs on my elbow:

What's a savings account? I just have a bank account called "Tattoo Money" :P

FUCK THIS THREAD! Just got back from the honeymoon with all these grand thoughts of saving money, all kinds high-minded ideals my parents would be proud of.. and now all these killer tattoos. I suppose I'll just have to work my ass off so I can do both and start all the big pieces I've been thinking of. Seriously though, that Marius koi, the Stewart Robson backpiece, and fucking especcially the Jaie Devore craziness.. and that methed out kepwie Viking. Fuck you all, you're all my heroes.

Or Josh Arment. My friend got her legs filled in by him and they look incredible. Just search for "Josh Arment" on Flickr and you'll see all her dots (she has direct linking disabled).

In my mission to secretly become the norwegian eqivalent of @hogg I´ve decided to rip off all his tattoo ideas, shave my head and grow a beard. My beard-growing abilities aren´t up to par yet, despite me turning 30 in three weeks, but I managed to steal one of his filler idea´s the other day. Worst thing is I even ripped off the placement, haha!

on my chest I did a bunch of little single line stuff in between the stars and dots. I did a dagger, an anchor, a whiskey bottle, and some arrows. I don't know if it was the best idea, but the spots I had left were too small for a real tattoo but too big just to star and dot IMO. Shitty pictures I took them all myspace style with my phone.

My dude's arm, all starred and dotted. I think it looks good on just about anyone. It's very very very important to get someone who knows what they are doing and to do your whole arm at once. If you don't you'll end up with different sized stars which can look stupid. I'd recommend finding someone from Inksmith and Rogers or Smith St. These are my arms with no filler, that will soon be remedied once I get my one elbow and my wrists done. Both of us also have small things thrown in with the filler, like initials, numbers, little designs. I much prefer stars and dots to shading. To me shading just looks lazy almost. Or like the client wanted a bigger space filled but didn't have the money to make the tattoo larger.

Both ,if done well,look cool .

cranked this little guy out yesterday. Sacred Tattoo - Oakland

Just got this. The artist asked if i was cool with something less classic looking...i said yeah.

Little Jammer inspired by an episode of Ancient Aliens.

just got back from another session on my back piece! this Marius Meyer @ Invictus Oslo, Norway 1 tiny session to go..

Hi everyone, After lurking for some time i figured why not register so i can actually participate in conversations and comment on all the awesome pieces of art that are featured on this forum/site. Little introduction about myself: My name is Chris and I'm an 18 year old from the Netherlands. Currently I only got one tattoo on my left calf. It's the crest of the city I grew up in and I've always loved the design so i thought it would be a good design for my first. I love it:D Anyway i included some pictures in the attachments, one is taken when it was 3 days old and still red, the other is the healed result. Cheers, Chris

I believe the skull and rose is one and same design, not two different tattoos. And for the record, I ain´t squatting no dirty old basement, that´s just creepy. @hogg ´s nice and cozy bedroom closet is a different story. Too far? Anyways, back on topic. I like a little bit of bare space between tattoos, and I´m personally not a big fan of the ol´stars and dots. Or, I like them, just not something I would want to fill the gaps. I´ve played with the thought of maybe adding some smoke-like shading in between the tattoos on my right arm eventually, but that might be a really dumb idea since I have yet to see something like that (which I assume there is a reason for)

Something a little different - a nicely made video on Andrea Furci, tattooing at the Family Business in London. I think it was done for Movember. "I've watched his work really improve even in the time I've been over and back getting tattooed in TFB - he's a super nice dude.

As someone who's practiced the art of impatience my entire life, the advice on waiting to do the stars and dots filler all at once and also finding someone who knows how to do a proper star/dot fill, I can't stress those things enough. Got my elbow to wrist "filled" a few years ago and it looks... stupid. Waiting until I can get the whole thing redone at once. Oh yeah, and I also made the mistake of asking the dude to "throw some color" in a basic black tattoo and it also looks... stupid. Worst feeling: watching the tattoo and getting that sinking feeling in your stomach. Luckily, it's small, and at some point it'll get redone. So uh, just wait and be sure it's what you wanna do and find someone who knows what the hell they're doin!

or find whoever did the ones in @kylegrey 's first photo

interested to see 2012 list

I thought this was a guitar/song writing question. My bad

Yeah! It was good catching up, Jen. I had intended to hang out more on Sunday, but... you know how it goes :D

Yes, it will be a full piece when concluded. The plan is to meet up with Stewart in the US. Also I will come back to FST but not for a while.... I would like to have it finished where it started!!!

Backpiece outline session #1 complete. Don't feel too bad this morning. Not looking forward to the 9 hour flight home. Stewart posted the outline on Instagram. IT IS AWESOME!!!

Heading into Frith Street for my appointment with Stewart.

Last time getting tattooed for me was end of August this year... and in less than 3 weeks time I'll be back in Japan getting the sleeve finished ;) (and y'all can bet your collective asses I'm excited!)

*spelled, haha sorry i just found it amusing that the post was about something with incorrect spelling so i couldn't resist mentioning it. :D

progress on my koi. made by marius meyer @ invictus Oslo Norway Instagram

Thanks for the recommendations, not a fan of the Guiness we get over here. Think I know a couple places where I can find some of these beers.

Shitty Wednesday because I've become accustomed to checking out a new episode every week. Can't wait for next season!!!

I don't think I've ever wanted to be tattooed by someone so much in my life now. And not because he's 'Freddy Corbin'... but because he is Freddy Corbin. All of the episodes where great for one reason or another, but the Corbin series was next level. I mean, all of them got pretty personal but there was something about these last few that really hit home... Thank you Vice. And to thank you to all the artists that made this possible. P.s Best quote of the whole series, Tim Hendricks - "... at 35, I still want to be Freddy Corbin when I grow up."

I'm heading to D.C. in a week to have my stomach painful-ized by Chad Koeplinger. It's going to be a world of ouch.

Appt set with megan fernandez in a couple of weeks. Finally get to offset the symmetry of having both shins done, merry xmas to me

second session with derek noble. got all the shading done. about 8 hours in so far? doing color in a few weeks

Here is the second session on my back piece: Panther vs Tiger – Stewart Robson 6 hours in and I can't believe how much has been done. Even though Stewart has done my entire front torso I'm still amazed at how quick he tattoos. Also on a side note, not being up for 30 hours before getting tattooed helped a lot. So glad I managed to sleep before this session.

It does get tempting to tell people their stuff sucks if they are insisting that you go see their "self-taught-tatty-wizard" 'cause "you coulda got your sleeve done for a 1/4 of what you paid for it brah"...

went for a quicky yesterday. its the only "script" like thing I ever really wanted.

@gougetheeyes I am pretty sure our dear friend blaze said peacethafuckouttttttbuttthomos! lord knows you cant have authentic homo without BUTTTT

I just thought we needed to see the picture again! Well done, Mr. and Mrs. Gouge!!!

haha, no way! this girl was an engineering major. i suppose the triforce could be a simplified version of it. i've gotten to do quite a few triforce/zelda tattoos, actually tomorrow i'm doing a link tattoo on a guy who i put a ganondorf on last year. i'm actually surprised at just how many zelda tattoos i do each year.

How the hell do you not notice that before it's too late? Seriously, sounds like he deserved it.