thanks for the comments 🙂

was a bit of a huge step for my first tattoo but tbh I personally am not a fan of smaller pieces (even though they can eventually be bought together and look awesome). as for the pain well it was about 4-5 weeks after the outline was done and I must have forgotten how it felt because as soon as he started I had a brief moment of ‘what have I let myself in for!’. Also my artist starting on the ditch, elbow and wrist didn’t help!! But like he said at least some of the worst bits are over….phew (the underside of my arm is going to be emotional though!).
one thing I did notice though was when he was using the gun with about 5-6 needles it didn’t hurt as much but when he change to the gun with 3-4 needles I noticed the tickle very much!!

next sitting booked in for the 21st feb

well some more work was done today…expected to do 2 1/2 hours however stopped at 2…think dave (the artist) wants to see how this part heals up before hopefully one last session on the lower arm. anyhow here’s some pics…

hope to get some more pics up when this stage is healed. currently next session is not gonna be till May (gonna wait till after I get back from Thailand in April) so there’s bound to be plenty of pics of it beforehand!

eighty4, here’s a couple of pics of the whole arm after 7 1/2 hours work

thanks for all the positive comments up to this point everyone. i’m more and more chuffed now about how this is going. originally i was going to go for the quote written out and wrapped around some sort of pattern but having a good think about it and changing it to a pictorial representation of the quote has been the right choice. on top of that a lot of credit has to go to the artist, Dave Bryant, for the countless amounts of options he presented to me before i fine tuned this design to make it my own. now though the work is all purely his and he’s adding his own touch to it as well which is cool.

i’ll continue to keep this thread updated however there won’t be more ink work till either end of april or sometime in may due to me heading off to thailand for a couple of weeks in april.