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Here's mine. Tattooed by Stefano C, Frith Street, London Its on my ribs. Which are under several layers of blubber.

This thread isn't complete with out Kahlil Rintye. Fucking amazing stuff! Ed Hardy's Tattoo City - Kahlil Rintye

Walk-in Customer: "Can you do a woodchuck with a monocle,handlebar mustache riding a tallbike w/ an owl holding keys?" Tattooer:"Sure thing, let me sketch that right up *a few minutes later...* Tattooer:"Here's the stencil, you ready to start?" Walk-in Customer: "Hmm-my bicycle-riding gentleman woodchuck with his owl friend sure came out looking like an eagle fighting a snake on a skull" Tattooer:"Sorry, that's how I draw 'em"

Here are a few from SFO this past fall. My Next appointment is with Scott Sylvia at the end of the month. Mike Wilson Bert Krak Eli Quinters Eli Quinters

appointment with Ulrich Hueber was moved to the 11th, so that the fiancee and i could head up to Dublin today instead. five hours with three short breaks, and the medium lines and shading done with Scott Sylvia machines!

from kitchen to bathroom door i have just under 10 yards

We still have plenty of shoot outs with Sheriffs and bad guys here in the "Old West" of Oakland.

I agree with some of what he said, but the notion about the "hippie/shaman " resurgence in tattooing to be wildly romantic .Tattooing is less for the outsider today more than ever ,I think hes confused the long haired metal stylings of some of todays guys as hippies ,cause the closest thing I see to hippies on either side of the fence are the Leu Family and Freddy Corbin.In the coolest possible way of course .

The panther was from the books Eli, Bert & mike were working out of. It had a small nose and super low brow, it's the same piece of flash Bert used on that guys hand opposite the wolf that he recently posted on instagram. After applying the stencil, Mike just smeared the brow, drew on his signature brow, enlarged the eyes and snarled the lip and voila! Instant Mike Wilson panther. It was pretty cool to see him transform the piece on a fly

One of the best Baphomets I've seen, by Matt Arriola .Also liking Goats from Uncle Allan and Theo Mindell .

And @Ursula is back!

I find the term custom confusing. So getting a crawling panther is not cool because it's flash, but being the 1000th person to get an owl or your favorite song lyric makes you original? Or having a tattoo with no outline is somehow a good idea just because you think it's a new idea. I use these as examples but it works with every tattoo trend, I hear people talk down about flash and then proceed to jump on the next tattoo trend because all the cool kids are getting "custom tattoos" so they bring their google search image to the nearest shop to blow your mind. I think the reason some tattooers say that they would like people to get more flash is not because they don't want to draw tattoos for people, but they just talk to so many people with bad ideas for tattoos. Furthermore I have seen more that one custom tattoo specialist butcher a piece of flash so there has to be some credit to the application of clean traditional tattoo even if it is someone else's design. This is not to discredit the people out there trying to draw things better and breath new life into old designs to establish the nuances of this era in traditional tattooing, but most of them I have met would have no issue with doing a nice piece of flash or people that make a living that way.

All at the same time produces a coma. Read that off WebMD.

Turns out Chad Koeplinger is back in Ireland in February - I have a 3 hour slot. Sweet...

great thread thought I'd add some backpieces done by people at Divine Canvas since no one seems to have mentioned them here

I'm doing one for the philly tattoo convention.... more specifically Lincoln's birthday. Probably on a grey shirt. Art by Rick Lohm of Halo.

I got one of those. Done by Alex at saving grace tattoo, montreal on friday november 13, 2009.

It's finally back up: Marcus Kuhn's - The Gypsy Gentleman - Home

Ok I've uploaded some pictures, sorry for the terrible quality of them, they don't do the tattoos justice really but you get a rough idea at least. Cheers, Ben

I completely forgot about the "charge per color". I remember when I was younger a guy who worked for my dad got a panther on his back. He said the reason he got a panther was because they charge by color. I never questioned him because he was a scary as fuck dude

Robin Hood didn't use sights either.

Back to nyc sunday to get a full day season on the work Hooper started monday and consult for the other arm with Chris. Im fucking up on shareing pictures esp since many of you are cool enough to share yours, ill try to fix that.

lmao... no but that would be awesome but i rebuilt my kitchen myself there fore have more respect for the kitchen than the bathroom. i stand in the kitchen and shoot at the bathroom

i dont use a site so sometimes i just straight up f*ck up when the fletching is messed up or the arrows get bent

haha. do I ever.

Check out my star bitch.

"i'm getting this tattoo because i'm part cherokee" or "i'm getting this tattoo because i'm irish" - i give gingers a particular hard time about this and tell them that they are actually scottish and were just used as political pawns for the king of england to take over my ancestors country.

Spent 6 hours today getting tattooed with Marcus Kuhn. Half the time was spent dialing in the black work, the other half was spent doing color. He got the lower third of the 3/4 sleeve complete, here's a little taste :D I've got another appt. next friday and the friday after that... hopefully he'll be able to finish it this trip!!!

I take immodium before doing anything most of the time. The last thing you want is to shit your pants.

Babyshit soft fists of fury is classic ha disclaimer I do not promote violence especially involving hip hop supa staaars. It took him yrs to build street cred and to lose it all in a brief 10 second altercation with an unassuming guy could alter the world as we know it

Found another one...

I think Drake should send you a fat-ass tip for saving his life, because now he'll be able to see that crazy chick coming from 100 yards away.

iain mullen

I don't think I've been in a shop that doesn't have the Sailor Jerry Line Drawing books or the Sailor Jerry Tattoo Flash books. Craphound is an amazing reference source as well as many of the Dover books of royalty free art.

Here is a pic of mine right thigh. This was about two years ago and I have since pretty much filled this leg with other animals . Not sure what to do on the other side thinking of dragon.

I might not have thrown one, but I got drunk in the Oakland hills off of Skyline and cut a cactus down with a pocket knife and sheer willpower. true story.

Random Video Thread.

Also... Found this walking to work in Oakland. Mandela @ 14th WB. Right by the OFD station. Super funny.

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