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I got this skull tattooed on my foot yesterday by my good friend Sándor Jordan. Lines done with a machine and everything else he did tebori. Super fun and relaxing way to get tattooed. https://www.instagram.com/p/BCLLOuZjAtJ/?taken-by=jordanist https://www.instagram.com/p/BCLDBjMkGEY/?taken-by=havetsherre - - - Updated - - - I got this skull tattooed on my foot yesterday by my good friend Sándor Jordan. Lines done with a machine and everything else he did tebori. Super fun and relaxing way to get tattooed.

deified my shin a bit with Eddy Deutsche on friday, been waiting for this one a while, stoked! What a great dude Eddy is, and totally mesmerizing to watch him work.

Next year @Scott R! Next year!

in my honest opinion, I think it does tend to sway people.

Thank you! I'm so glad to hear that, seems like Im getting some tattoos soon ;) - - - Updated - - - Thank you! I'm so glad to hear that, seems like Im getting some tattoos soon ;) - - - Updated - - - https://www.instagram.com/mrmauro81/ another one from the same shop - - - Updated - - - https://www.instagram.com/mrmauro81/ another one from the same shop

Robert Ryan Asbury Park NJ - on the knee good times as usual

I really like Franz Stefaniks work (https://www.instagram.com/franzstefanik/, he tattoos at The Okey Doke Tattoo Shop.

Ta Moko designs are based around genealogy, social rank and status, accomplishments, and so on, so I could see a hypothetical situation where you got a Maori tattoo because "they have the most badass warrior culture on earth" and ended up getting a tattoo that describes somebody else's life and family. Would Maoris be offended by this? I don't know, but they'd probably think you're a dumbass for getting a tattoo of something that you're engaging with so superficially. I do think the same goes for Viking stuff. If you're going to get magical staves tattooed on you, it's probably best to understand what you're getting and what it means. The trend a few years ago of people getting Masonic imagery is another example of this: you might think it looks cool and mysterious and occult, but people who know how to read the imagery know you have gibberish on you and you come across as a moron as a result. I don't see how getting a tattoo just because it looks cool and having no understanding beyond that is any different than somebody getting kanji while not understanding the language.

This an interesting topic for discussion for sure. I read in another thread about a similar topic that an artist may be flattered by their art being rendered as a tattoo.. Thought provoking to me. Would using art originally unintended to be tattoo flash be different? It would be very interesting to hear the opinion and thoughts of an artist or tattooer that is firmly established and at least semi successful from selling drawings and or flash. I would hold their opinion in higher regard then my own.

Tattoo flash painting isn't really painting even if you use a brush. It's "illustration colored with a brush". I mean people didn't even really consider Rockwell a painter. He was an illustrator and his paintings(illustrations) were far better than what 99.999999% of us are all putting out. Outside of flash, and flash style paintings I don't really do that stuff much anymore. I did it for years before I was a tattooer so I'm going the other way that a lot of people are going. I'm not branching into painting, I'm leaving it alone for more tattoo based illustrations. Weird.