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2 months from today at this time I'll have one session down with Grime and one for the following day :D T-Minus 60 days......

Alright, headed to Richmond for this tatty con. I'll try to snap some decent pics.

Hello, I'm Grant, I've been a stalker of your forums for quite some time. However i now feel i am eligible to join the forums due to the fact i recently got my first tattoo. Props goes to Joe Ellis from Lab Monkey at Stirling, Scotland.

It takes five before it really sinks in. For what it's worth. Damn you, Craigslist.

ditto... i want to call em out!

If you don't like pain, by all means, go for a backpiece. Total cakewalk. :)

At the moment I am booked for five sessions on my ribs in the new year, and I've been thinking that I want to do my back instead and I'm going to talk to my artist about that when we have our second consult in December, but this thread makes me never want to do my ribs ever. Thanks for scaring the shit out of me, guys.

@irezumi, the ribs as my first weren't easy, but they make the rest of my tattoos easier because I just keep thinking "HOT DAMN! this is better than my ribs." That said, I did two 2.5 hour sessions, not 5 straight. That would be REALLY tough.

Shitty cell phone pic of progress on my backpiece. 7 sessions, 22.5 hours, and 1.5 tubs of Aquaphor. I should be able to get it finished next month as my X-mas present to myself. (And by shitty cell pic I mean REALLY shitty)

Or we could want both...?

New one from Thomas Hooper last week

after joking about it a bit a few months ago, i'm booked in on a day off two weeks from now with my boss to do an eagle on the back of my head, with the wings wrapping around onto the sides. hopefully it waits a few weeks for it to go full winter on me, otherwise my ears may fall off.

Have a couple of kids. Time starts to go real fast.

Whatevs, someone is just nervous that he is not going to hold up as well when getting those spots done as his super tuff wife. :)

For those of you who care and don't already know, I post shop pics under the handle acmetattooco I have a personal one misterdflores, but don't use it and there is only one picture of me singing Karaoke, under a disco ball thing. Tattoos and tattoo people just seem to be the only thing that interests me on instagram. I have already started following people on here as I find them.

@jayessebee is getting his neck dine. It's awesome.

Man, I really miss getting my arms tattooed. I'm right there with you!

Aaron Bell Carlos Torres

Stephanie Tamez at Saved does a lot of this.

20+ years later this is still what I say about every tattoo I get haha

just. just.

here's my new one from duncan x, from a bruegel engraving

I agree, the lines look so solid and clean. I love all the black. As for me, I have black & gray, but my black & gray left arm incorporates a little "dotwork" type stuff in the background. I don't think I put this pic on LST... This is my inner arm after the 4th session w/a Spencer Briggs Style mandala. It's not finished yet and my iphone takes crappy/grainy pics but here it is:

We need to get Grant into Frith St.

You say this, but you're holding out until it's finished to post pics... you're a mean man @phickey ;) haha

@CercleRouge my point, or at least one of them was that this 'style' is so special and interesting, I'll be sad to see it become a recognised tattoo style that anyone thinks they can have a go at. That's my main point and just because customers ask for it, that doesn't mean tattooers should fill their portfolios and instagram with it. Maybe I should add here that I have done tattoos in this style. I've done a lot of tattoos in a lot of styles with varying degrees of success. I've done tattoos from Duncan X's flash and loved every second but I didn't pass it off as my own work. Same with dotwork mandalas and OpArt designs. I even added them to Japanese style sleeves after Binnie's flash but again, the photos didn't wind up in my folio because I didn't want to make a point of imitating something so fresh and interesting. I'd rather take the mechanism of their layout, approach and influences of their work and apply it to something else because a slightly tweaked version of something new and exciting doesn't make the copy more exciting. Maybe I'm just being crusty and crotchety when I preferred it when the only place you could get any decent work of this kind was In2You in London and LTW in Barcelona. I also think that your little dig comparing traditional tattoos to McDonalds was a little ill-though out and reactionary. Already in this (only 3 page) thread we've seen the 'same' compositions, patterns and images repeated by various artists. I' not trying to change anything. I know that anything new and interesting will be imitated so quickly that it's difficult to tell which came first. I'm not trying to tell anyone what to get tattooed or who to get it from. People like what they like, that's cool. Maybe I should use less words: Just because someone tattoos like Jondix or Duncan, that doesn't mean they are anything like Jondix or Duncan.

Lining the chest, stomach, and ribs in one sitting hurts like shit...I would post pictures but I think ill wait until its finished.

I like that he has "rockabilly" tattooed on his face because it isn't obvious enough from his ridiculous pompadour what kind of music he listens to.

He is doing a full back piece, neck down to bottom of ass and the entire right leg from hip to toe. Back is a Huge Tibetan skull and water, leg is a women with veils on like in some of his silk paintings and a crow on a skull. I told him to mix in roses and water as well. I have not seen any artwork yet and am waiting patiently...First sessions in late january.

gougetheeyes & hogg, both of you are posters on this forum that I've enjoyed reading for awhile, feel quite honored that you took the time to reply and said a welcome, thanks guys :)

And worked for Keyser Soze ...

no problemo. inner arm by Jondix. i also got a perfect space filler under my knee by this Japanese tattooer, Hideki Kobayashi, whose book captivated my eyes and mind. he turned the lines from the third pic to the tattoo in the second.

I love drawing ladies faces - but rarely get to do them, maybe only a couple a year): Has anyone mentioned Isaac Fainkugen? Definitely one of my favorites!

posted mine in the november thread but my band was in frederick, md recording so my girlfriend and i drove down a little early and got tattooed by Antonio Roque @ Black Label Tattoo Co. its hard to get a good picture but this is underneath the tattoo on my kneecap and wraps up around the inside of my knee.. these are the two that my girlfriend got.

BOMBS

Already posted this in Latest Tattoo Lowdown but I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring. 100 Years of Solitude rib piece Artist: Matt Brotka Shop: Salvation Gallery

By mike wilson

Freddy Negrete .

Am I the only person who thinks this?

Plans for 2013, horiyoshi in january, mick and sabine in april. i wish time could speed the hell up :rolleyes:

Got this from Antonio Roque today @ Black Label Tattoo Co.

Boo- Yah Tribe at Hanky Panky's old Amsterdam shop .

From when I talked to people who scratch or have some scratcher stuff on them, they seem to be the type that wouldn't have gotten a tattoo from a good artist anyway. Price is almost 100% of the reason for getting it anyway. It's like me and home décor, I could give a shit for the most part as long as it works and is cheap, but the big difference is I don't have to wear my shitty couch on my body forever.

Mario Lemieux/Wayne Gretzky tribute tattoo, not sure what's hipstery about that.

Chris Garver's introduction was awesome. I loved it all the way through

I realize tat tattoos have become more "culturally acceptable" in the past decade or so, but it drives me insane when kids from the suburbs come in looking to get a neck/hand/face tattoo without having any other work... Seems like everyone wants the "warped tour" sleeves these days. Wrist to fingers. Drives me nuts.

I just can't get past my no outline phobia no matter how much talent an artist has in this style, Different strokes for different folks I guess.

While I can relate to being pissed off about general rudeness, I feel some things tattooists need to lighten up on. Basically being unknowledgable about tattoos in general, asking questions we have heard a million times before, bringing references on phones, wanting stuff that is too detailed or won't work. A gentle approach goes a long way. The way I look at it, I patronize a lot of business where I don't know jack, and I don't appreciate being treated like an idiot for not being in the know. A good example is when I went back to my local print shop. I was asking why I couldn't open a certain file which was a flash sheet I had scanned to a tiff file. The print shop guy snapped at me "ITS A MULTI PAGE TIFF FILE!! YOU CAN'T OPEN IT UNLESS YOU HAVE PHOTOSHOP!!" I am like ok, can you change it to a file that I can open? Again snappage "I CAN'T DO THAT! YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE ORIGINAL IMAGE!" I am like "ok, I have that, could you please scan it again?". I also had them saved as PDFs for easy printing. So he was like "I am just going to change these PDFs into JPEGS". I said I would prefer to have both, as the PDFs print original size and all. Even more snappage " UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO PRINT THEM OUT, THERE IS NO USE". I calmly explain to him that they are commercial art, of course I am going to print them out. Then I ask if I have the jpegs and alter them, they can be saved into PDFs again, right? More snappage "ONLY IF YOU HAVE PHOTOSHOP!" The guy was literally yelling at me. Needless to say, I won't be doing business there again. Think about that the next time a customer says asks about things that seem readily apparent to you. A lot of times people are not trying to be difficult. You are the expert, not them. Try and take this into consideration.