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I've been itching to post in this thread for a minute! Got this from Robert Ryan at Temple Tattoo in Oakland, CA.

Oh what the hell, probably crazy to enter a tattoo here given what's already posted, but whatever, I'm not here to make friends: Done by Seth Wood, Saved Tattoo. Mostly finished October 2011 so the thing is healed a year, but the illustrations in the book are fresh and were done a couple of weeks ago. Apologies for the giant pictures.

Yeah he's incredible. The whole S.O.o.S crew are excellent tattooers. I have another piece from Capilli, you can see it's tongue next to the bird in that one.

This is my newest tattoo Work is by Capilli Topoou. He usually works at Sacred in Auckland, New Zealand but I got it while he was guesting at Hunter and Fox in Sydney.

picture not working - - - Updated - - - Mike Bruce @ Inksmith & Rogers Wilford Brimley dragon by David Bruehl @ redletter1 (forgive the picture its tough to photo myself.) next saturday ill be getting tattooed by Mike Wilson @ Inksmith & Rogers

A (large) peony from Junii at Diamond Club...next week!! <stoked>

Here's the filler work done by @Lindsey Carmichael

Swinging into Gold Rush to get a filler piece from Lindsey Carmichael!!!!

First one to say that you're not here to make friends gets my vote.

@Pugilist would if make you feel better if we entered THUNDERDOME ! two men enter one man leaves

@Dumpleton, a man of his word, has donated his winning shirt to any LSTer on the east coast who was hit by the recent storm and needs a shirt.....PM me so we can get you dialed in

Let me just remind you that you have a Chris O'Donnell piece in progress thanks to your East Coast location :D Speaking of, when is the next appointment?

Hey @Scott R and @ian - can't y'all at least pretend to trash talk each other or something?

You poor, poor dear.

meh.

my friend soap owns a shop called lab monkey in Stirling, Scotland. I learned to tatto in the shop round the corner from his but thankfully he never hated on me for that ;). anyway reading his blog i came across a good link to a website documenting some of scotland's history of tattooing. ive visited it before many years ago but forgot completely about it, thought some of you might enjoy reading info on it Prince Vallar - Tattoo Artist

Not sure if this is where I'm supposed to introduce myself or if I'm blind! Anyway I'm Luke I'm from the UK, I'm 22 currently working on a full sleeve of traditional bits and bobs, here a couple of pieces I've had done for those interested.

I think I said this before in this thread, but both tattoos suck. Is it really neccesary to copyright a turd? Clearly the inkmaster dude couldn't quite pull off the same thing the other dude did, but both just leave me shaking my head. It looks like someone started watching Bob Ross and just said fuck it after ten minutes and put some swiss cheese at the bottom. If there is a lesson to be learned, it would be cheat off the smart kid, or know what the fuck you are capable of duplicating. If I someone asks for a tattoo of something the first thing you do is find reference, in a book internet, magazine, whatever or if it's imagery that is used in tattooing then you look at how other people tattooed it. I feel like everything is ripped off to some degree, but when people create good tattoos people are less concerned about the source of an image. A great tattooer who will go nameless, but is more talented and wiser than me, recently told me their are two kinds of people, those who use google search for reference and liars. I think there is a clear difference between something like this and selling bootleg copies of peoples art. I mean even flash I feel if you buy it or a book that is a collection of flash you have the right to tattoo it, even repaint the images and give credit, but you can't just sell someone's images as your own. I think it's okay to tattoo it, because that's kind of the agreement when you buy stuff like that and yes you collect money, but it's for the service of applying a tattoo. I think ethically it's not right to misrepresent and image to a customer as something created custom for them and I would be more concerned about the client in this case. The other point is someone is going to try to straight rip off another tattoo, is usually going to create a straight up busted version of it, because pictures of other people's tattoo suck as reference. If you are going to reference it properly, you most likely are going to have to redraw the whole thing anyway. I think there is a clear dropoff in talent this year. Maybe again its just tattooers and styles I am not used to seeing, but for my book sucking is not a style.

I have no appointments set up what so ever, because got no cash. Ideas, yes. Coverup old crap in arms: some type simple futuristic black work Chest: Compass Back: ROA 2001, Gadsen Snake or something. Timeline, 2012-2020ish.

I've Just booked an appointment with Chad Koeplinger, he's doing a guest spot at Frith Street early next year. Just a butterfly so nothing super exciting for him (hope he doesn't mind) but I'm stoked, can't wait!!

i am the owner of Kline Family Ink in emmaus pa - - - Updated - - - thanx ! i am the owner of Kline Family Ink in Emmaus pa

Ya don't say.

Fair enough! It's January, I took some time off for the holidays and what not. Two more sittings. Then I'm gonna break it to him that I want him to complete my leg.

Poke some cream inside the skin, it should get infected, scab and you can peel it off and hopefully some ink will come with it. I have heard that this is one of the old school things. Might not be from the early 1900's, but somewhat old.

Lindsey is the greatest!!!

I just learned about Capili from an interview with Theo Mindell (and thanks to @WeRnDoGz for telling me how to spell his name/where to find him on Instagram). I really love his work, including the piece you just posted.

True, any art is up for grabs once it hits the internets. A continuation of the guy who invented the wheel.. still getting fucked in any way imagineable. Rob - - - Updated - - - I had a tattoo done back in May. It was something I saw on a site that makes stencils for airbrushed tattoos. I emailed the site owner, asking him if he had a line drawing of the stencil, which I offered to pay him for. He sent me back a real good picture of the finished product, all he wanted in return was a shot of the finished tattoo. I imported the picture into my CAD program and fixed it up quite a bit, then I printed it out and it was used for the stencil. I would have felt funny about it if I had blatantly ripped off the design. Rob

Well, I was excited to post my tattoo, but the stuff posted here already is some serious shit. Hopefully I can still hang with you big dogs... Proud to wear this piece from Josh Cruse, JP Cruse Professional Tattooing, Wichita, Kansas

@Iwar Chad's fast, eh? I got a shin tattoo from him at SFO this weekend, every piece i've seen from him healed solid like paint

I guess I'll pop this threads cherry :D Done by Jeff Gogue, Off the Map Tattoo in Grants Pass, OR. Done at SFO Convention... Done by Jondix of Barcelona, Spain at SFO COnvention...

I use arches cold press and I love it. I've also recently started using Waverly liquid acrylics (previously I used FW exclusively) and I really enjoy them. I've been doing a ton of marker stuff lately but this thread is making me itch to get back to my liquid acrylics. When I transfer the image to the arches, I use a super fine nibbed pen, and after doing all the shading and color I go over all of the lines with a brush, and that's honestly my favorite part of the whole process. I'm not perfect at it but it's a fulfilling challenge I suppose. Here are a couple I did earlier in the year with Waverly liquid acrylics. Sorry if the images are huge >.<

well actually I got a back piece done aswell

Just got back from a day trip to Amsterdam. Got my inner bicep tattooed by Guen Douglas at Salon Serpent. It hit parts of the armpit and ditch and it hurt like hell. And now my arm is massive. But so worth it! Probably a little girly for some of y'all's taste.

stuart cripwell spider murphys sfo

got this one from mark cross last weekend

Did this on a friend. Its based off of Tom Johnson design. Tom was my mentor and I was lucky enough to get to photograph all of his sketchbooks. Tons of skulls! Anywy,

I did this one last week on the owner of the tattoo studio where I work, love skulls and daggers!

Because I can think of nothing that better speaks to the conservative Republican base than a face tattoo. Great work all around!

We get loads of people walking in and saying "I want a sleeve tattooed" to which we obviously reply "Okay mate, what do you have in mind?", they then say "I don't know." Honestly? You want your whole arm covered, but you haven't given any thought to what with?

Damn I suppose it's back to Frith Street for me then.

I'll try to put together a good photo with the newest additions, it's hard to take a decent looking picture of it because it wraps around my arm, though here's a picture of it from Seth's blog from when it was first finished about a year ago: Seth Wood Tattoo - - - Updated - - - I have a couple of tattoos from Ron and, yes, his tattoos are amazing...like "holy fuck, I can't believe he did that" amazing, especially with some of the negative space tattoos, and he's all around a really awesome dude to get tattooed by. I highly recommend the experience.

The details that Seth added: And the start of my sleeve, by Thomas Hooper:

instead of blacking out your arm just get rubendall to do some dope jap work on it! itll cost about the same, thats aloooootttt of black packing.

Should be able to help...... Is it the Mike Malone Flash you've backlinked to twice so far on ebay? Did you get a chance to read the Newbie Guidelines? Also just food for thought, it may help you sell stuff on LST if you contribute to the site first. LSTers haven't been know to take to kindly to persistent sellers...... PM me and lets see if we can get this squared away

Nick CTC

exactly. And in quoting high, you adversely affect your name. To him and the people he speaks to, you charge exorbitant rates for simple cleanup work. At the end of the day, he gets to be who he is openly without sweating how it's received and so should you. Neither of you has to explain yourselves. Judgment is deciding what other people should do, integrity is deciding what you should do...always do one and seldom the other and you should be alright, in work and in life. Two weeks ago, a guy came in on a busy walk-in day wanting an iron cross with a swastika wrapped around it. We simply told him we don't do them, we're not the place -- short and sweet, on to the next. Further back, I had a guy who wanted to clean up some old stuff and expand it into a sleeve. What he showed me was no problem but when he came back and took his shirt off, he revealed a huge swastika on his ribs and some SS insignia, stuff like that. He made his choices in life, that's his business. What I do is mine so I gave him some good ideas for the reworking of his current tattoos, told him I don't do that stuff but I can work around it with the new work. No lengthy discussion needed. He was on board with the solid ideas I had for his sleeve so I turned up the soul music and got to work. He got some great tattoos, I turned him on to quality work and he came back week after week, then sent his friends in. Had I bullshitted him until he left instead of speaking freely we both would have missed out on the chance to get some good work going.

Danny Trejo... that is one legit dude.

Sorry folks but hitler fucked it up for everybody from here on out to eternity. Along with that mustache. So I'm not into it at all. Not one bit