You got a red x?

I likes it!

Looking forward to the pics…

Hello! I dig your site – seems like you know exactly who you are.

Definitely avoid the industry tattoo website for the time being – I went back there this morning before dropping by the thread, and got a lovely piece of scareware that wasn’t on the site yesterday. Must have been hijacked last evening.

nathanfajkus;76706 wrote:
Hello all,

I had my first tattoo done last Thursday and through the power of Google have found this site. I really enjoy forums and am apart of others relating to other interests of mine. I look forward to getting some inspiration, tips, and whatever other advice I can use to put forth to my future tattoos (not…[Read more]

Actually, I just went back to Industry Tattoo’s website, and found myself more impressed with Josh’s portfolio…I think his work suits your concept well.

http://industrytattoo.com/?cat=7

Gsouder;76672 wrote:
she’s really good by if you are looking for hyper realistic detail you need to keep looking. Her old school and styled pieces are pretty good though!

I agree – not my choice for hyper realism based on her portfolio, but I like her work over all. I also wanted to come back and point out to anyone looking at her portfolio,…[Read more]

sumguy;76669 wrote:
Okay, so next artist. These are done by another local artist on a different friend of mine. Opinions?

Artist is Paula from Industry Tattoos http://industrytattoo.com/

Thanks again for any comments!

I like Paula’s work a LOT more. I’d certainly talk to her if I were looking for an artist.

Based on those, he wouldn’t be my first choice. I found his portfolio pretty hit-or-miss as well.

For my artist, I spent hours combing the websites of every local tattoo shop, and looking through the artists’ portfolios. I revisited the ones I liked multiple times, getting pickier, until I narrowed it down to one shop that had several artists I…[Read more]

TaherH, thanks again Sorry to hear about your dad as well.

Vizzie, thanks to you to.

Knight, thanks as well. As for Beelistic’s name, the owner’s nickname is Bee, so he combined that with either ballistic, realistic, or both, and named his shop that way. WHatever the name, I actually dig the portfolios of every artist there, which I haven’t…[Read more]

Thanks 🙂 I think she did a great job – now that it’s almost healed, I’ll be posting a new pic soon, it looks much better.

As for meaning, I follow a kind of mashed-up Pagan spiritual path. The tree comes from Norse and Celtic Pagan traditions, among others, where a “Tree of Life” theme is important. The shape of the tree is an Ankh, the…[Read more]

Thanks! Having fun looking at albums :). Will have better pics of my ink as soon as it’s healed more – right now it’s ITCHY!!!

I love the colors – very nice!