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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 think it's mostly the troll cave they hang out at and talk about it that does the custom bug a dis-service. I will admit I used to hate flash something fierce, I credit it to working street shops and blowing through sheet after sheet of cherry creek and tattoo johny stuff. I love the shit now and good flash teaches you the right recipes to become a better "custom" tattooer. I see the same thing every day. " My homeboy does shit freehand." "Do you freehand or stencil?" "FREEHAAAANNNDDD!!" I think a certain demographic is more inclined to go to a house, get tattooed "freehand" and now it's the shit. Not understanding that working shit out on paper will keep their awesome rib piece looking like shit. There are maybe a handful of dudes that understand tattooing enough to go to town with a sharpie imhp. And I sir am not one of them. I like the article and I like art being brought into tattooing more. It gives me a chance to not tattoo bugs bunny spacejamming. But fuck I miss bugs bunny, taz and marvin. Nike signs just do it's and kanji. Bread and butter

Iz famus.

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

Just an F.y.i. Craphound Just reissued a couple of their zines that were outta print.

I've seen Maxime mentioned only a couple of times on this forum, but I thought it might be a good time to give him some love on this thread, as he is due to do a stint at IntoYou this month and February. http://mxme.tumblr.com I have a LOT of time for his tattoos, which are in the same area as Tomas, Hooper, Duncan etc, but he also has his own way of doing things. He also publishes Sang Bleu and by all his accounts is just an all-round sound guy. I love that eagle skull tattoo.

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

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

Hey Folks: I am starting a leg sleeve (s) with Stuart Cripwell. I am getting tattoo about once about every other week and you can see what we have done so far below. For the first few pieces, I just picked stuff I liked and had it tattooed in spots I thought would fit my body well. Now, I still pick out the piece but Stuart outlines the negative space [ex: the empty slot of skin between two tattoos] on tracing paper. He then draws the piece, adding and taking away, so that it fits in the outline. Best, Dellwood P.S. I am in the market for good set of kneecap tattoos ideas. I know there is a thread on this but was hoping for some more suggestions taking into consideration negative space, traditional style tattoos. I have been looking at Spider Webb's books of traditional American body suits and the knees are always hard to make out. From what I can see, though, it seems like suns, nautical stars/hexes, spider webs, and elephant heads were pretty common.

working out, sex and smoking weed seem to work well. I cant remember the last time I had trouble sleeping.

Its Paulie from Sheer Terrors birthday today! I know that big polish bastard doesn't post here but whatever! Listen to some Sheer Terror/Joe Coffee in his honor!

Dammit. I've been thinking about a giant panther tattoo myself. If only I could sit still and keep my mouth shut when it counts, I could probably have some kick ass tattoos.

"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.

Here's my hand I got from bailey a few weeks ago

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

My wife was in today getting her neck tattooed by Stefano C. It's a bit red and sore looking where its been shaded, but he's done a fantastic job

i'm going to agree with kevin in this debate. it's not the drake tattoo on this woman's forehead that is going to ruin her life, it's her decision making ability.

I've been enjoying seeing the tattoos Ross Nagle has been doing with the "outline" around some of his tattoos which I think makes it really stand out also with the little amounts of color.

thought these were all fab -

she's turning it into a hippie. this is the step-by-step video on how to make sure your kid never leaves Berkeley, CA...

this video always makes me laugh. homie barely even gets his weight into it but it's still great. the guy punching is one of the nicest dudes ever too which makes it even better for the impatient people skip directly to 2:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRkCHyLnUtg

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