Getting inked

[TheIronBeast]

I was in my local tattoo shop yesterday and put down a deposit on a half sleeve from my wrist to my elbow onn my left arm. I am going for a Japanese theme and in my half sleeve I'm having a japanese dragon wraped over a tiger and my artist is going to also create a nice japanese themed background too.

I have been tattooed before on my right arm and eventually over time I will have two full sleeves.

Getting my half sleeve started next thursday and really looking forward to it. I've been told it will probably take several sittings which is understandable because it's a fairly big job. Should be great once it's finished though, dead excited about it.

[Dmoney]

i got the back of my right forearm done a couple of weeks back.
i got a old school style thingy with a polar bear and 'grim north' split above and below, surrounded by a laurel wreath.

I want to get a bunch more but i prefer old school looking stuff and i don't want to go down the route of everything fitting together, i want smaller pieces that stay separate.

where are you getting it done?


i was looking at some tattoo pics recently and found some worrying photos of dudes with throat and hand tattoos and not much else, looks cool with a longsleeve shirt, till you take it off and look like a pussy pretending he's full of tattoos

[TheIronBeast]

Yeah I am planning on getting some more smaller pieces done on my right arm and then I will eventually connect them all up to be a sleeve.

I know what you mean about hands and neck tattoos, there is this one guy on my street who has some "macho" tribal design on his hands but he has no other tattoos anywhere on his body and to me it just looks a bit silly.

I am getting my ink done by the same guy who did my other tattoos a while back, it's by a guy called Tommy in Perth, Scotland. He is only a 20 minute drive from where I live but he is an excellent artist.

[CaptainDesslock]

i think tattoos are cool but I would NEVER get one!

I can't imagine permanently marking myself on a whim!

[Afghan Dave]

It should never be on a whim.

I love getting important personal ink.

Good luck with the new sleeve!

[Dmoney]

some of the best stuff ive seen has been done on a whim.

then again also some of the worst.

my housemate has a few, relevant to the time they were done, but i don't think the image means so much.

he does have 'pain' tattooed across his chest but that might be because he once fell 500ft off a cliff. I imagine that was painful, though ive never asked if the tattoo is connected to that incident.

[FernandoDuarte]

thinking in making a half sleeve on the wrist to elbow too, but Maori style... The problem is that tattoos are not as well accepted as other countries here, I remember seeying much more people with tattoo in places out of cloth's covering, as low arms, etc...
I've passed on a public contest, but my company was 100% owned by government, now it's mixed with investors, what mean that I'm safe today but in a year or two, with new elections and probably having the old government back (the ones who start selling it) I'll not be that much as they're always interested in selling patrimony of the state CHEAPLY with stupid terms (no guarantee to employees), my mum still suffers from the public bank sold to Santander...

[Dmoney]

when i was in the tattoo shop getting come colour done on my arm, a guy came in with Maori style tribal on his shoulder and asked for it to be covered up with kerry king style thick pointy tribal.

i guess that stuff is a tattoo artists bread and butter. i know a guy in Antwerp who charges double rates to do tribal cos he finds it so horrible and boring.

the other request i heard a few times while in the shop was for 'baby angels' which i think is the Essex term for cherubs. best idea i heard was some guy who wanted a Japanese style carp in a pond with flowers and such also in Japanese style going up to the clouds where he'd have 'baby angels' flying around. in my head that would be two different styles of tattoo blended together. i couldn't comprehend it.

[nfe]

I am getting my ink done by the same guy who did my other tattoos a while back, it's by a guy called Tommy in Perth, Scotland. He is only a 20 minute drive from where I live but he is an excellent artist.

Why on earth would anyone visit Perth to be tattooed and see anyone other than Gary at Inkredible Kreations?  :?

Other than his waiting list, obviously, he's probably the finest tattooer in Scotland by a vast distance.

Hell, especially for Japanese work, Skin Deep put him in their top 10 Japanese style artists worldwide a couple years ago, and he's only got better.

[Dmoney]

i had this talk with an apprentice who is a friend of mine working on the wirral. we talked about how tattoo artists are almost like the new rock stars.

When i was in belgium i got asked if my stuff was by Steve Byrne. A lot of my friends have stuff by him.
Also, London is home to Frith Street which has a crazy rep, but i dont think id ever go there. I guess London has a few places with good artists. I think Tom Hooper used to tattoo out of Frith Street too. I got friends with stuff by him also.

I'd like to get something by Human Furnace from Ringworm maybe. haha.

[nfe]

Yep. Miama ink is the worst thing that's ever happened to tattooing. Now there's scores of imbeciles up and down the nation scratching the shit out of their stupid friends cause they think they can be the next Kat Von D and hang out with some celebrities. Quite why anyone wants to be an arrogant, mediocre tattooer is beyond me, mind.

[WezV]

i only got sky this summer and all the silly questions i get asked about my tattoo's suddenly make sense.  No its not a memorial, no it doesnt really have any meaning, no i didnt walk in off the street and start getting tattooed 10 minutes later!!

just trying to decide what to do next now the wedding is out of the way!

[Dmoney]

you got your wife's name on you? i hope you not, that kind of thing is always a curse.

[WezV]

no way!! i onyl mentioned teh wedding becausse that meant there was no tattoo money available

although my mum said something funny the other day.  Her new pagan husband is getting a tattoo of her face on his arm... i managed to listen to this without laughing, not sure how.   She then told me that i couldnt say anything (wasnt going to ;) ) since i had a tattoo of my wife on my arm, at which point i did have to laugh a bit  the incredibly detailed womans face that takes up the top of my right arm shares no resemblence to laura in any way at all.. seriously, not even close... neiher is the pin-up on my leg.   its funny the way people interpret things :)

[Dmoney]

my mum said something funny the other day.  Her new pagan husband is getting a tattoo of her face on his arm...

 :? :? :? oh man