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An iron chef tattoo show would be awesome. I started watching that on old school food network when it was all japanese lol. I think almost anyone worth their salt is avoiding reality tattoo

I think hipster fits kinda well for that trend. To me hipster tattoos lack a genuine commitment and honesty. It's easier to be ironic and mock something than to put yourself out there with a belief that goes deep for you. I don't mean a tattoo that has personal meeting , but for me it would be like getting some horror tattoo and deflecting with how funny it is rather then how much I love horror.

100% The portrait day is still the most difficult for me to watch. The x-men ones this year were so jacked up. I feel like working in a permanent field you would need the wherewithal to admit that you cannot do something rather then ruining someone's skin. I've been into art my whole life, I cannot do realistic faces. Portraits would obviously not be my thing.

Great great idea, as art not script Like getting some of Roald Dahl ideas put into tattoo form

I love the book Horton hatches the egg (really) Won't make a good script tattoo

I am sorry but reading this post just makes me want to be your friend. all flower tattoos are cool IMO... The old japanese woodcuts mostly show warriors with flower tattoos.

I wish I knew where these kids get those awesome hair hats. Oh, the places you'll go? really... that's the Seuss book you selected. Why not 1 fish 2 fish. Equally meaningless This is almost as cool as the McDonald's "random red couch" commercial

@SeeSea No after hurricane Irene and the power loss I lost a few grand in coral and fish. I am going to wait until we move from a Coop to a house to get another reef tank. Snowflake moray isn't too bad to take care of, all carnivores/ predator fish are "dirty" so you just have to be on top of the water quality. Getting aquacultured corals from professional crossbreeders is more addictive then tattoos, you find yourself justifying a $400 piece the size of your thumbnail because its rare and will be beautiful when it spreads and grows

^ agree I did mma for a number of years, and your first day sparring was quite the wake up call. I have the itch to get back into it, at least BJJ and muay thai again. Budget is tight, but it's always worth it. Anyone new to a bag, learn to properly wrap your wrists up and get some proper gloves. That investment will save you some pain as your body adjusts to the new demands placed on it.

@SeeSea I'm not a diver, but I was a major reef tank geek for a long time. I definitely get the subject and personally it looks great. Good luck with the progress.

I think that Gentle Jay's implications were correct, it looks like without "references" Scott cannot draw. That snake was abysmal. I think it is kinda lame that he is almost untouchable even when he has the worst tattoo of the day. Even his lady liberty tattoo was mediocre with a mistake in the crown (only 6 spikes). I said it before, I love Japanese day when all the artists scramble to say it isn't their style and how it's mega lame sauce then they fail completely. I liked how Horitaka spoke about the finer points of a Japanese tattoo along with the judging. I think this sense of history throughout the show is what ink master needs to move forward. For anyone that watches Face Off, I kind of wish that ink master was as fraternal as that show. It is a competition, but there is a great comradery to those contestants.

those sugar skulls... look familiar?

@Wilhell 9 sessions and 45 hours... wow I sat for double sessions for the first two. I don't think I could do that for the next 7. You are a trooper.

Yea the stacking images concept is very amateur. EDIT: I just went back to look up the egg shaped negative space you mentioned... oooooo yeah :confused: good choice My gripe really is that they went with a decidedly Japanese piece and they missed it from the literal drawing board. The design, shading, colorwork/ palette, everything was a miss. It really does look like a dragon hit with a baseball bat. Japanese is far and away my favorite style for tattoos and to watch these people vying for a master title not be able to do something this popular is shocking. It's a hannya mask... I have over a dozen friends with different incarnations of them. I feel this is also why they stopped having american traditional day because it was infuriating watching these people fail at making an american traditional anything. Case in point was I think 2 seasons ago when the people jacked up the american flag designs on those (veterans?) people then follow it up with I don't like this style anyway.

wow, I cant imagine hiding my tattoos from my wife. I am like a little child with a new toy. I run home and show her first. She is tough to read. She will say oh that's too much, but then we will see someone covered and she will tell me how sexy that is. I also get her presents as bribery. I got her these Louboutin's she wanted when I made my back appointment. When it turns into a body suit I'm nervous about the present that will require :D @BrookR70, jesus you make me feel like a nudist. I sleep in boxers only and will relax in like flannel old navy pajama pants. My wife would be concerned if I started wearing clothes more.

I think the execution should be moved to second, some of these drawings are absolutely brutal. You can amazingly execute a shitty drawing, but then you are left with the awful drawing. I would highlight specifics, but countless examples have been shown over the past 3 (?) seasons of ink master. It's funny I very much wanted to be a "canvas" on the show like 2 years ago, I am so glad I wasn't selected.

thank you for the link, very entertaining read. Too many things I would quote, but it would just showcase my utter ignorance of tattooing in Japan throughout the ages. "The history of body modification in Japan is long and vibrant, dating back to the Jomon Period (roughly 10,500 B.C. to 300 B.C.), when clay figurines were molded with marks that modern historians interpret as either tattoos or scarification. Later in the third century, Chinese records noted that all Japanese males bore heavy tattoos on their faces and bodies." "Today there are an estimated 3,000 tattoo artists working in Japan, compared to approximately 200 in 1990." I just think that these two facts are just too awesome. 200 tattoo artists in 1990. I can't imagine how difficult it was to find one as a newbie without connections.

I think a smaller piece that can serve as a time stamp for an important time in your life would be cool, even a Korn tattoo (small one) you can look back and smile at IMO. God... I would have had skateboard/snowboard/hockey/slipknot tattoos. it would have been as great as Mr. cool ice.

that is a great suggestion, those are cool as hell.

not so much sarcasm, just being playful i guess. I find a number of tattoo subjects really awful so I kind of respect that Renzie doesn't like big cats. Ironically it happens to be my favorite :D

@SeeSea Its in one of the 2 last pages of the full back piece thread. I didn't want to double post it. Not until its gets more work.

I have two transgendered people in my extended family. One, is beyond brilliant and so awesome once you get to know her. I offer you the same open mind.

welcome gender fluid? what does that mean. I haven't heard that before Dalek on the calf :cool: awesome

I believe tattoos are like girlfriends (or in your case boyfriends) you want another the moment you forget how much the last one hurt lol. (happily married now don't read into it) getting very large tattoos is such a young age is scary because your tastes will change drastically. please listen to the advice of those who have posted replies to you. Why not discuss with your artist of choice something along the lines of an embodiment of a jaguar spirit from another culture such as Mayan? thoughts on that idea? ALSO if it helps I have a very tacky back piece of a cat on my back :D:cool:

I give the same advice to all people who just got their first tattoo and find themselves with the itch to get many more. GO SLOW. read all you can, learn styles, find a favorite, learn flow and composition, learn artists, and find examples similar to what you may be interested in getting. This may help you come up with something you love star wars (i think right?) related that is more powerful from an art stand point. I have seen some really great american traditional star wars stuff that adds whimsy (yea, I said whimsy) to the subject that you may find really appealing. I also don't want to come off harsh, but I identify because if I started consistently getting tattooed after my first I would be covered in many bad ideas solidified around my interests when I was 19 lol.