Hi and welcome to the forum.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome

Nice ideas for the ink.

I also write quite a bit in a few genres incl fantasy – do you have any test samples up online i would love to read them.

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Matthew

How long was the sitting a couple of hours?
Which artist are you using?

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Matthew

Hi Sian

For us to help you need to be more specific.

There are thousands of tattoo ideas but first of all you have to decide on the following;

Style: Fantasy, Biomech, Portrait, Floral , Old School, Animal, Religious, or Text?

Black and shade or Colour

Size you say small but how small?

The smaller they are the harder they become for fine…[Read more]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

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Matthew

Hi

I am UK born and currently living.

My wife is from Israel but we travel quite a bit – done most of Europe Israel, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Saudi, Korea, Thailand and States tour and I am hoping to do Hong Kong, China and Japan as my next set of places to see.

This will prob be in the next 18-24 mths.

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Matthew

Hi

It would make a nice tattoo kind of reminds me of the British artist Banksy who does similar sorts of pieces.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/index2.html

Here are a few that may…[Read more]

Hi

There are several Japanese themes actually

There is the cherry tree and blossoms that symbolises the passage of life and rebirth

The koi which is endurance and success when faced with hardship

You could have a floating candle on a small pool of water with lotus blossoms.

Could go for a text design of ‘Hope never dies.’

Place really…[Read more]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome.

Don’t worry too much art is something that should be shared and I enjoy seeing new artists all the time.

We pay for our work and as long as you are not ripping off the orig artists work with somebody else I cannot see the reason for complaint.

The bow sounds a great idea.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome

I love the ink you have actually although the new backpiece will be very sweet design once it is done.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome

What is the tattoo of (style wise) and which part of the world are you in?
I am sure I can dig up a few sample artists.

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Matthew

Hi

There is modern and traditional characters and some sites literally use a sounds like approach rather than the exact cultural/language translation.

They don’t go out of date it is just that there are a lot of unscrupulous bastards out there who will try and sell any old shite to the unwary.

You are doing the right thing in getting it checked…[Read more]

Hi

From the description it sounds like you are having some major plasma leak which is forcing the excess pigment up from the lower dermis into the top part of the skin.

The other issue is that some orange tattoo inks are made from disazodiarylide, disazopyrazolone, or cadmium seleno-sulfide.

These are actually printing press ink ingredients and…[Read more]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

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Matthew

Hi and welcome

Looking forward to sharing your personal ink and work done.

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Matthew

Hi DMD

Depending on the type of black pigment used in the ink and good skin care of your tattoo most tribal actually hold up quite well.

The worst case I have seen was a mate’s (he won’t let me post the pics so will describe) who frankly took bugger all care of his ink and inisted on tanning beds and constant sun exposure.

His ink went spotty…[Read more]

Damn

I thought you were dead KH what the fuck will it cost me to keep you down??

lol

WB dude I missed you on these boards!

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Matthew

Hi

For basic answers on getting a first tattoo – the things to look for, to avoid, how it works etc click on my sig I wrote a free ebook for the community.

5000 clicks since June 09 and still rising so will happily work on another project I have.

Here is also a link for crosses that might give you…[Read more]

Hi Arni

It is not that there is little interest in your genre it is that one person’s tastes in an artist could be completely different to yours.

I know 2 artists who I would recommend for fantasy.

The first is in England and is a tattoo studio called the The Tattoo House – http://www.skinchaos.com (Funky style)

The other is in Dublin (more portrait…[Read more]