Yea nice “ink job”

Its well done, cool piece. I agree with Buttwheat about some colors but overall it’s very solid. Not very often do you a see a traditional piece on this forum, don’t expect much love.

@buttwheat 142582 wrote:

Are you willing to travel at all maybe an hour or two for something that is for life?
The proportion is off on the links from one to another in his attempt to show depth, the shading and saturation are poorly done I don’t think it is just your tattoo I think it is his skill level but good choice not going to the crackhead, I googled some 7 shops in your area and yes they all suck. drive the 33miles and get some real work done Hope Gallery Tattoo – New Haven, CT

Buttwheat I’m curious which shops you looked at? I think there’s at least one pretty good place not far from him, although you are definitely correct about Hope Gallery.

Nice, I have an appointment with him in January.

Get a Panther

It’s actually mostly traditional American tattooing and done fairly well.

@gobeavers 135862 wrote:

Eh I guess I have no need to. I love B/G, but in a neo traditional look I think the color pieces look way better. I like b/g for realistic looking pieces, but I prefer color for traditional or neo traditional tattoos. He’s had all sorts of ideas, but left off talking about getting a rose compass and a sun in b/g, seems kind of plain to me.

He’s also talked about getting a day/night theme, which is why I think he’s best off going to an artist that can work with him and draw up a custom piece rather than two separate images of a sun and rose compass.

I admit I agree with this. While I definitely like nicely done B/G and I’ve seen some nice neo-trad pieces without color I think traditional and neo-traditional styles lend themselves more to looking better when done in color than other styles.