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wasn't planning on getting anything at the convention this weekend but had to jump at the opportunity when marina inoue had some free time on my inner wrist

can't help with translations sorry, but any one of the images from yoshitoshi's 28 famous murders with verse are backed hard. i hope to get one of them as a back piece one day

got this from claudia de sabe yesterday: really stoked on how it turned out, and she's light-handed so wasn't as painful as i was expecting

Marina Inoue is the first who comes to mind, have digged her work for a while, guess it's a mix of colour pallet and her general style. Jessica Swaffer, Josh Stephens, Stuart Cripwell, Claudia De Sabe, Robert Ryan, Ichibay, Hiroshi Hirakawa (for his paintings as well of course) etc. etc.

slayer9019, i saw you have one of yoshitoshi's pieces as your avatar. have you checked out the whole of his series of 28 famous murders with verse? beautiful and brutal, my favourite series of prints easily. i hope to one day get an adaptation of the one i posted (naosuke gombei ripping off a face) or one of the others from the series as my back/butt piece

a dry heal with a re-wrap the first 2/3/4 nights (depending on the size of the tattoo) has always worked really well for me. stops the gunk from healing into raised scabs and it all washes off with ease in the morning, i also move a lot in my sleep so it stops the fresh tattoo from getting rubbed all over the sheets. then i let it breathe throughout the day time, washing 2/3 times during the day, sometimes i'll use a tinyy amount of bepanthen if its looking too dry/feels a bit tight. once its a week or so old i also start to use a bit of coco butter on it, seems to really help with the colours but it might just be me being biased caus i love the smell of it :rolleyes:

toyokuni III/kunisada yoshitoshi. probably my all time favourite ukiyo-e piece i'm sure most people here are familiar with their work, but these two (along with kuniyoshi and hokusai for their monster/yokai based works) are among my favourite artists and i spent alot of my time at art school doing work heavily influenced by them. hoping to start seriously collecting more ukiyo-e prints when the £££ allows it

that was really cool. glad the chap that had brought the items in knew more than the antiques expert and corrected him a few times

favourite one so far. loved seeing bits from hiroshi hirakawa too, love his paintings

indeed, was put onto her waiting list in march or so this year and went for my consult last week. there's a fair few tattoo's i'm itching to get at the moment, but a bit strapped for cash after university and my trip to NYC over the summer. first time in america and got tattooed by steve boltz, eli quinters and tron at thicker than water. was a fantastic trip with my best bud, got our 4th and 5th set of matching tattoos

i love collecting stickers. laptop, speakers, games consoles etc. and on the ol art supply tool box saving up some ones i got from NYC to start on a coffee table once me and my friend move in together

all booked for january. getting the elbow and surrounded area filled with a hannya mask from claudia de sabe. very excited!

long time lurker, first time poster. thought I'd finally set up an account! just graduated from uni and i'm stilll trying to sort my life out, just thought I would say hi cheers!