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@ThatGuy Why would you leave a space? The point of the back linking to the arms, and potentially the front, is for the sake of flow. You can't get 2 Japanese sleeves and a Japanese back piece and not connect the 2.

9 tailed fox by Horimitsu at NYC tattoo convention.

This entire time I thought that this was on your thigh and much bigger. I'm only a little disappointed that it's smaller, it's still awesome though!

@MikeL This sure is a process you have to be patient with. Sucks to wait until June.

My next appointment is April 21st. It's been too long!

@Hospitelli Awesome hell scene. I love when the big deities split legs down either side of the butt, it just fits so damn well.

@DevilMan I feel your pain! Both butt cheeks in one sitting is no fun. I hope you're at least enjoying leaving ink behind on every toilet seat you sit down on.

@MikeL So black! That is going to be very classic looking once it's wrapped up. I'm really enjoying Rodrigo's style so far from what I've seen.

Holy shit Back explosion! Too much for one day!!

I'm at work, so I can't really Google it to pull up pictures, but they have mousepads with the same design.

Yes yes, do share @MrToby The process is very daunting, but completely worth it. I'm only half way through mine and I am very excited for the rest.

It feels dirty to post someone else's back piece who could potentially post here themselves, but this is another one that Dana Helmuth is working on that I haven't seen before, and it is awesome. He posted this to instagram yesterday.

@Zillah To fit with the true Japanese style, I guess. I've seen plenty of woodblocks where the 9 tails is red. Look at Tesseracts' post at the very top of the page. The one woodblock has a red fox.

Probably higher chance in catching heavy metal poisoning from listening to too much Judas Priest. How much Priest is too much Priest?

This much.

Definitely went a little excessive with framing a $20 print, but these were our honeymoon purchase and Horitomo was gracious enough to sign them. The wife and I are very happy with how they turned out.

Drinking some hombrews at the moment. Already 2 in on an empty stomach with a good buzz. Normally my tolerance is top notch, but I'm pretty sure my homebrew is sneaky high octane. Never really tested it for content but damn it'll get ya drunk. I know my keg is about to kick too, so I've got a French sour lined up next.

@beez haha I know how you feel about just walking around the shop naked. At first I felt awkward as hell in my fundoshi, now it's just standard.

@Cork DAMN BRO!!! You're moving at a break-neck speed on your back! Looks fantastic! Love the details on the robe!

Trying to set that pace but now it's going to be 6 weeks until another update. Even Dana was lamenting that he might go through Kongo Yasha withdrawal.

@Cork dope ness brother! Saw it on Dana's gram...great progress! Not if for a session with Rodrigo until the 4th, hopefully knock out most of the koi.

Mike

Nice, looking forward to that update. Any idea on colors? I still think the one on the front page that is all black, by Marius Meyer, looks so badass. I'm sure you'll want something brighter though to contrast with the background?

I'm not sure why you people keep posting pictures of tattoos that wrap around calves/forearms etc. Flatten those suckers out, it's very inconsiderate.

Last session for a while now. Drove on as long as we could before shop closing time. Fire, robe designs, more hair, details on the faces.... lots of little thin lines for fun!

Dana Helmuth

Read Street Tattoo

From his Instagram @danahelmuth

I'm a huge fan of his work, but I had no clue what he looked like.

Ha, that's one reason I know I'd be out of place in a convention unless I had someone leading me. It would be nice to avoid that "Oh, you're Shige."

Under saran wrap you get puss, sweat, etc... No worries!

Odd that he said don't use soap, but eh, I'm sure it's fine. If the black ink were dripping, it would be black running down your leg and not wound colored.

I feel disappointed to know that this is something I will never get to see, so thank you all for the media and updates! It looks like a great time.

What the hell, the last 3 pages of this thread have blown my mind. Great tattoos everyone!!

I pity the fool who puts up a full backpiece in the contest thread this month, they might not win it!

Nice! Ahh, I would love to see one of those in the water. :)

I got an email from my artist's PR rep saying he wouldn't make it to the states in April, after all. Too many octopus tattoos for one city at one time, maybe. Alas.

PR rep?! Who were you going to?

Aw don't play me like that! You can do bodyweight from your damn knees.

Holy shit great progress @DevilMan

I went the ways of a home gym mid 2013. I've had some slow gains because I had to readjust for so much tattoo healing, but I do want to say that I FINALLY hit a huge milestone and I put my body weight overhead with a slight push press. And anyone who's been keeping up with my back piece progress has seen dat ass and knows that it must mean I put up a good amount of weight, haha. For how long I've been training, I should have had 3x BW by now, but hey, a PR is a PR and I'm happy about it,

Absolutely stunning! Thanks for posting. The bird in the Namakubi Hair Completes the Nest painting is so menacing. Also love all the iPhones and modern gadgets.

That was hands down my favorite one. I would love to own that one day.