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Did another 3 hours with @Stewart Robson this past friday. Doing another color session today.

Whoaaaaooohhh so many amazing tattoos being posted!! Love love love the white tiger and the dragon lamp. I don't know why great tattoos are so romantic, I swear I actually swoon when I see them. Very hard to follow up on these awesome pieces, but I just wanna post this one from yesterday. One session, 3 hours, lots of fun! Dunno what I'd do without such cool clients, they're always the ones with the crazy ideas, I'm just lucky enough to get to draw them :)

My second tattoo from Frith St., from Valerie last week.

Haven't posted in awhile, iv'e been busy lately. Anyway, finally couldn't take it any more. I went back and had my chest eagle colored today. Tattoo by Paul Pearson.

Chris O'Donnell: Blog Chris O'Donnell Tattoo funny enough he just posted a few photos of my hannya sleeve that he finished back in April. going back for one more session to fill in an empty spot on my inner arm.

So, the 18th marked my one year of membership here... I feel like I have changed quite a bit in that time. Definitely had my mind changed about alot of thing, educated on alot of things... I went from one tattoo to 4 (You are all terrible enablers), and generally just enjoy myself and the friends I have made on here. So thanks. You're awesome. I appreciate getting better tattoos.

Just booked with Todd Noble for Labor Day weekend. Can't wait.

Just a quickie note. . . We'll be attending Oliver Pecks Convention in Deep Ellum, (Dallas, TX) September 13-15... and We are confirmed for the Bay Area Convention of the Tattoo Arts in San Fran. this October... So far time is completely open, so get at me if you want to get tattooed by Richard...

I'm not sure there's any way round it. Getting tattoos hurts, more or less, depending on whereabouts it's going. If you really, genuinely want that tattoo though, it doesn't hurt enough that it should put you off. (Sometimes I find the whole "washing a slightly scabby wound for a week or so" aspect more unpleasant than the actual needlework.) ;)

photo stolen from his blog, still pretty red.

Tebori by Horimasa Tosui in his private studio in Amsterdam. The baku was done at wednesday and the pictures are taken today (sunday).

After admiring her work on a friend (@tacitapproval), I really wanted a piece by Mina Aoki at Fun City, NYC. She did this Lady Head for me yesterday, and I'm very happy with it; it's my first full-color tattoo, my first piece of American traditional work, and my first time at Fun City. I'm sure I'll be back for more. I'll post healed pics in a few weeks.

I realise this is an old thread, but given that I recently started getting tattoos again largely because I started going to see live bands again; and given that those two things made me decide that even though I'm getting old, I'm not so old that I need to behave old; and given the band that started this off had a logo that I thought worked as a tattoo; and given I'm now kind of engaged in filling an arm up with band/song-related stuff...well, this seemed like a relevant thread altogether. ;) So here's a crappy photo of my Black Stone Cherry tattoo. Oh, just in case anyone's interested: ;)

He told me in an email that it should be out in a week or two. He mentioned the translation was still giving them difficulties. Soooooooon.

I think I've been on here a little over a year as well and it's really changed my life for the better, too. Now I know what good tattoos look like and who's who in the industry. I don't think I would ever have gotten tattooed by Scott if it wasn't for this forum. And it's been a damn pleasure to browse through here every day. I can't believe there is a space on the Internet that I check every day besides Facebook. You all rock.

I'm in Oregon y'all!!! :D I left Oklahoma a week ago, made it almost to the Colorado state line and ran into some car trouble... I ended up stranded for 4 days waiting for parts to come in, but then managed to drive 24 hours over two days and made it into Oregon late last night. I'm so thrilled to be back this way, it's been a long 3 years in the bible belt. West Coast-Best Coast!!! :D

There's no way I could pick just one. I've had such a great time with each of my tattoos... and I plan to continue that trend!! Seeing the way different people approach things, watching them figure it out, watching them apply it... that's part of the fun!!! I'm with @hogg here, I just can't even try to play this game.

You nailed it, @Lance. Jill's work is super clean, well thought-out, and just beautiful.

I want to be you when I grow up.

Went to Ohio from July 10th - 17th and was tattooed by Debra Yarian, Don Yarian, Dawn Marie Cooke & Mike Fite at the Cleveland Tattoo Expo on Friday and Sunday......and went down to Youngstown to be tattooed by Debbie Lenz on Saturday! Also went down to Chillicothe and saw Matt Griffith.......out to Cincinnati to visit with Dana Brunson......and we stayed with my Sis, Tracy Nicole, in Marion, OH! Was a really fun week of getting tattooed and visiting with friends and I am looking forward to planning another tattoo road trip somewhere in another couple months if all goes well!

Yep, because when I've gotten my blood drawn or needed a shot it looked nothing at all like this:

Got tattooed by Adam Warmerdam last week. So I'll throw this in the mix.

love his tattoos.

gotta go with dan santoro. i've pretty much only gotten tattooed by him in the last year, and don't plan on deviating from that anytime soon. besides the other dudes at smith st, if i had to choose someone else, it would either be steve byrne or stevie edge. dudes' tattoos always blow me away.

You need to come out to the LST NYC get together this weekend and show this tattoo off. The colors and the design are SUPERB!

My guess is in Norway. That's where trolls are from, right?

I can't sing her praises enough, and I am so, so, soooooooo stoked on this piece, so here is my finished leg by Stephanie Tamez. Such an awesome person, and I'm gonna miss spending so much time at Saved! Except for a couple details, everything here is healed. Definitely one of my favorite tattoos.

I can't wait to see that thing in person in a couple of days!!

Here is another picture of the same tattoo I posted in this month contest -thread. Tebori by Horimasa Tosui done in his private studio in Amsterdam last week at wednesday. The pictures are from yesterday.

Here is the newest addition to my collection by Chad Koeplinger. He was amazingly fast! Only took about 1 hour start to finish and it is bigger than my hand.

just got this dude last night pretty rad, a little oozy still, hard spot to photo

Thanks @Duffa I love all your new additions! The subject of my Garver tattoo is called a Harpy Harpy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It's from greek mythology, and I think it's a little weird that it isn't seen more often in tattooing. Who doesn't like an eagle with tits? :cool: @hogg Getting tattooed by tebori was a real treat and something I've been looking forward to for a long time. Since this was my first tebori experience I don't really have any pain reference, but it wasn't too bad. Less painful than by machine, but slower. Horimasa was super friendly, humble and just an all round great guy. Such a great experience. We actually got it done in Marco Serio's studio since Horimasa was waiting for his own place to get greenlit by the health department. Unfortunately Marco was abroad, but I got to stare at his awesome stencils which were hanging all over the wall while I was getting tattooed :)

tapped out. finishing in another week. getting my knee done by derek noble on tuesday!

Done by Josh Damnit, Classic Tattoo, Upland, CA. Not a healed pic but its been a year since I've been able to get tattooed (been deployed) and got excited! :D

What the hell, I will enter this one, pretty sure everyone knows who did it, haha. Man that Kore Flatmo sleeve is great, that is who I am voting for this month.

Hannya by Horimasa Tosui / Harpy by Chris Garver Pretty much healed up...

I have a yoneyama snake in my leg as filler, he also did a hermit crab/skull on the side of my knee. Two of my favourite tattoos! I usually never post my own tattoos but Williams work needs showing off

another Yoneyama:

Had a DAMN good time with the Stells and the folks who showed up at Pair o Dice to wish Richard a Happy Birthday and shop opening. That shop is going to push out some killer tattoos.

Dusty Neal

Anyone seen good girl chest pieces that don't involve clocks, rockers, or nonesense? A friend of mine if looking for inspiration and i'm way too drunk to find studff right now.

so here are my thoughts on fat people with tattoos..... theyre fat and have tattoos. being a good person to be around is way more important, it just takes longer to get out of your way if you fall in my direction. just get tattooed and enjoy them

Just wanted to say this is a nice thread. I didn't think an internet forum could have a mature discussion like this.

5'10", 89kg/196lb As a fat woman: fuck body hate, get tattooed. To elaborate: being both fat and disabled, I've had issues with my body for a long time. The act of getting tattooed (facing a chronic pain and sensitivity problem) and the act of BEING visibly tattooed is, for me, extremely empowering. I'm not the typical "hot tattooed chick", and it is glorious. It's a way to take back this vessel I've been cursed/blessed with, and to feel more comfortable going through life in it. Plus, tattoos are awesome.

I think good tattoos are still going to look good on someone who is very overweight, while bad tattoos are still going to look bad. If you've got great work it's going to speak for itself. I know a couple of pretty heavy guys (tattooers, incidentally) who are pretty much covered, and as with anyone else when you look at their tattoo it's the quality of the tattoo you see, not the diameter of the limb it's on, IMO. As mentioned above a pet peeve is really tiny tattoos scattered around. No pun intended, but 'go big, or go home'. Just to add, Jade1955's post is great: I find it fantastic that someone's love of collecting tattoos could be the driver in taking the steps needed to lose weight ... To get more tattoos, but (arguably more importantly) probably significantly increase their chances of living a longer, more active life.

Most of the bigger tattooed ladies I have seen (or tattooed) had something tiny done on them. I am personally not a fan of teeny tiny tattoos on anybody (especially if they're of the super girly variety or consist of microscopic text) because I believe that bigger is better... and I believe the same for larger ladies too. When I see a big woman with a tiny butterfly on her ankle I think to myself how cool it would be if she had a giant tiger or panther or dagger/skull or something. I love the look of people with great tattoos no matter how many extra pounds they might be packing. And I have no doubt that when I have more extensive work on myself, I'll feel a little more comfortable in my own skin.

Jason McAfee did this (punk) Rock of Ages:

here's some pix of my sleeve from Marcus Kuhn...