Graeme

Man, he's 63 and you're talking about him like he's a teenager. Make sure he doesn't get it upside down.

That tattoo is so good.

Hi and welcome. There's some great advice here already, to which I'd add that an alternative to a coverup is simply getting more tattoos.

It's real smart guy logic. Why do a painful spot when you can do another painful spot that is way larger? It's all getting done sooner or later anyways. I wish I had more than two arms.

That Jeff Zuck one there is amazing, but I tend to think of a Battle Royale being between three animals and I don't think this board needs a specific tiger vs animal battle thread.

It's likely going to be back anyway (you know because that's going to be super fun because it isn't like a huge part of my back is ribcage or anything like that) because I initially wanted a big (ie armpit to thigh) tiger but now I am thinking tiger vs snake which I think is too much for the ribs but would make a really great backpiece, but mainly I have decided that I just don't like pain.

Some amazing tigers here, but how about some pictures of tiger vs snake battles? Or tigers vs other animals too?

Stephanie Tamez at Saved does a lot of this.

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.

That there is more than one person like this makes me hate the world.

Roxx's tattoos are unreal. They're not for me because I feel that they require a lot of negative space to work and that's not what I am doing/planning on doing with my body, but I think she's one of the better people doing this style.

Oh fuck, you know how on the Erik Gillepsie video on here he's talking about some guy at a convention wearing a 1920s bathing suit with space on his arms and a pork chop sheet on his face? Is that this guy?

Welcome! Great start, what's next?

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.

That tattoo is so awesome.

I've not done more than about 3 hours so far, but I have three 5-6 hour sessions coming up and was told that once we start shading that it's going to be "brutal". I know that I'll manage, and at least it's a mostly easy spot (not looking forward to either my inner bicep or the ditch though!), but I'm kind of looking forward to starting big work with a local guy so I can sit for only a couple of hours at a time and space it out and not have to worry about doing these long sessions so the tattoo can be completed in a timely fashion.

Sounds great! Who is going to do them?

David Glantz, Archive Tattoo, Toronto. Dude is a hell of a good tattooer.

The wolf head is such a classic tattoo though and there are so many great variations on it, get it without the text and you're great.

Am I the only person who thinks this?

I love these books, and wondered why there wasn't a thread about this yet. I think the TV series has done a great job of interpreting them so far, and I think the way that A Storm of Swords is being broken up into two seasons of the show is smart partly because it buys George RR Martin more time to finish the next two books, and also it's going to get more and more difficult to fit a book in ten episodes without leaving too much out. Though I think as the series goes on there's probably too much padding there, a lot of which likely won't make it to TV. By that I mean he goes more into the history of Westeros and the various houses more than I feel he needs to. I kind of understand it because he's created this incredibly believable world that he's very clearly put a lot of work and thought into, but sometimes for storytelling purposes, it's maybe better that this stays more in the background unless it's directly relevant. Though considering how much of the books are based around the politics and history of his created world, maybe it does need to be there. I think his characters are amazing and so human, and that's what really makes the books for me. As far as my tattoos go, I have a wolf head, a bear head, and a raven in progress, but none of those are related to the series. Though maybe if people ask me what they mean, they will be.

Those tattoos are great. There's an eagle chestpiece on the facebook page that I really like.

Nice tattoos! I really like those UFO tattoos he does. I need to get down to Congress Street again and get something like that, I thought the place was super cool when I was there in the summer. Portsmouth is a really nice town in general.

For sure and when I was looking at pictures of his tattoos earlier today I think he's more and more finding his own articulation of the "style" and that's great. It also depends on clients letting him work on and develop that and not just going to him wanting a facsimile of a Hooper tattoo.

To clarify, when I said before that I feel I've seen Guy Le Tattooer's tattoos before, I don't mean that he's doing copies of anybody else's tattoos, I just feel that looking at them you can tell exactly what inspired him. For example, these hands: Looks like the guy is wearing a Saved t-shirt too.