NERD RAGE

Just came across this more recent photo. Her face has lightened some and she has some more tattoos now. Link is semi-NSFW due to lingerie: http://i.imgur.com/rxmSlfH.jpg

Saw this this morning and thought it was cool. Justin Hartman at urban art Tattoo in Mesa, AZ I believe:

That's fantastic. I would be standing in front of a mirror looking over my shoulder constantly.

I started following Diego Azaldegui on Instagram entirely based on your arms, Introspect, so thanks for that. They look great.

Graeme is right. In time the tattoo might not being something you even think about or see anymore when you look in the mirror. It's brand new so it's fresh on your mind, so give yourself a chance to stop dwelling on it and you'll hopefully at least stop being upset about it even if you decide that you aren't going to get any more. As for me, I just finished a chest panel on my right side so now both sides are done. I had a brief moment of "Have I gone overboard?" which was immediately followed by "It only seems like you went overboard on the chest because you need your sleeves extended to 3/4 and your back done to balance things out." So the blues don't last long for me. I love catching site of my tattoos, knowing that they're there when they're covered up, and that my 21 month old daughter says "Kitty!" every time she sees the lucky cat on my inner arm.

I didn't read the description and just glanced over this yesterday and thought, "cool Suikoden back piece". It wasn't until I saw the next one just now that I realized what was going on here. That is fantastic. I think my mind is actually a little blown.

Yeah, I guess I already knew the answer is customer education. Some people might not understand that the drawing and design time isn't going to cost extra and if you are going to someone good then you can get something awesome that is all your own (until you post it on the internet and someone traces it). And in his or her defense that's the best direwolf/"Winter Is Coming" combo I've seen so far so I understand seeing and it and saying "I want that on me" and wishing that it was flash.

I had to look at your gallery for the Game of Thrones piece, and holy shit is that awesome. What I don't get from my perspective as a customer is why someone would ask for your original artwork to copy? A wolf with a banner that says "Winter Is Coming" has been done many times since the first book came out and many more times since the show came on and is of such a basic premise that any good artist can take it and make it their own. Why do something that someone else got as a custom piece when you can get your own custom piece for the same price since you aren't being charged for the drawing time?

How big are these? With photos like this I can never tell. Cool stuff, by the way.

I know this is an old post and probably more of a rhetorical question, but I think I actually have an answer to this question. When people really start getting in to tattoos and start researching them, discovering what good work looks like, seeing what's possible to do on skin, and then realizing that there are a lot of people all over the place who can do solid work, the sight of lots of poorly done work can be surprising at first. It's even worse if you spend lots of time looking at great work on the internet and then see nothing but lots of bad work in real life because. So until you realize that there are lots of reasons people might have for having work you think is bad you are gonna be baffled and post threads like this. Threads like these are valuable, though, because they lead to suggestions like, "check out the band Red Hare," and to learning facts like that Shawn Brown was in Dag Nasty which I listened to as a kid and is a tattoo artist at Tattoo Paradise.

Are you saying that because it's always going to happen there's no point in having an opinion on it or passing judgement?

I love the fact that this the one thread that never stops moving forward. There's been a lot of awesome new stuff for the last few pages (and pretty much all 400 pages).

Jealous of your back and your wall.

The answer to this question is, of course, "it depends on your skin tone" which leads to "talk to an artist". "Talk to an artist" is usually a good suggestion. But to add some more interesting content, here are a few of mine to see how some color works on my skin: I'm on the lighter side, though, so again, exact skin tone will be key.

Now I'm sad that I didn't make my username "Total Boner Fuel"

Off topic, but that still looks like something besides a punch is about to go down on first glance.

The fact that I won't get to see your Grime back piece is pretty good reason to be mad at the guys who copy custom pieces. I seem to recall seeing an ass-peony that was a big tease and was looking forward to seeing the final product. I'm sure other artists are wary about posting work online for the same reason, so it sucks for those of us who just enjoy looking at photos of good tattoos.

Thanks. As you may or may not be able to tell from the photo I am black, so that provides an extra bit of a challenge to the artist, but as you can see things worked out well. I'm probably around Chris Brown's complexion but A) I have better tattoos and B) I'm not a total douchebag. I thought it was worth mentioning since the issue of how tattoos come out on darker skin seems to come up on the internet a lot. Maybe I should dig up that older thread on here that I saw about the topic. This is awesome. The last year of looking at tons of tattoos has really given me an appreciation of traditional work that I didn't have before.

Thank you. Every time I stand in the mirror and see it looking back to me I smile. But I kind of do that whenever I catch a glimpse of any of my tattooed parts.

Here is cell phone photo of my latest by Jeff Srsic at Redletter 1 in Tampa:

Hi, I'm NERD RAGE. I've been lurking for six months or so and decided to finally make an account in case I ever want to ask a question or share something and so that there's another forum on which I can kill time at work. I was first tattooed in early 2000 - 2001, and then had no work down again until October of 2012. And now that I'm typing out this introduction I am amazed at how little I have to say.