ontwo;56662 wrote:
I like your ink Blue. Especially your forearm

Seconded! It’s a tie with your Dog’s (capital D for a properly sized dog) portait though.

Sherav;56688 wrote:
My concern however is that you have had what looks liek a small blow out on the cross where the ink has seeped outwards from the outline.

Exactly my thoughts but check what it looks like when it’s done healing first.

To be honest I am seeing a trend here – a lot of people post pictures of their ink without any background…[Read more]

While I would agree that some people may have been a bit harsh, you did post the picture without any comments and it is quite normal here to look at other people’s work and give advice, you’d have seen that had you checked out a few of the existing threads.
I believe the replies would have been a lot different if you had given some background…[Read more]

I second BiB’s comment, 3″ will probably be too small for all the details to comdetails to show properly. It’s a great tattoo though.

Welcome, welcome! What’s wrong with your state? Too much country music? *hides*

JMac0123;56494 wrote:
Thank a lot guys.

Sometimes I let stuff get to me to easy that would make me angry, basically its just a reminder to keep tough skin. Let stuff go. The thorns being peoples actions or comments and the armor being me/my personality and the way I feel about things. Pretty much not to let other people affect me or what I…[Read more]

Grin n Wear It;56084 wrote:
Lets face it…if tats were the same quality as they were in the 70’s there would’ve never been shows like that to fuel them on. So, maybe first came the better quality of tattoos which fueled shows like the ‘inks’, then celebs and trailblazers like most of you guys…

That is a GOOD point actually. I have a book on…[Read more]

Yikes that was an ordeal you went through there but totally worth it.

That’s a private profile on Facebook so you can’t link to a pic from there to here, you need to put it somewhere else like on Photobucket.

Sherav;56425 wrote:
I still stand by the barking mad bit though! 😀

Haha did NOT argue that bit!
I did question my own sanity though reading your earlier post though.
My knowledge isn’t nearly as extensive as yours but I tend to be fairly certain about the few bits I DO happen to know.
OK, enough thread hijacking.

There you go

Sherav;56335 wrote:
Also Nietsche was barking mad towards the end. He did also kill himself.

As far as I know he died after a series of strokes combined with pneumonia.

I do like your tattoo idea though!

I think this is what he means:

While I love the gesture of getting your daughter’s puppy back I do hope your ex doesn’t hold it against you. I’ve seen that sort of stupidity before 🙁

The thing is everyone has different pain tresholds and – this may be a weird comparison – since not everyone is ticklish in the same areas I would imagine that people find different tattoo locations more or less painful.

I hesitated to relocate my tattoo from my upper arm to the back because I heard tattooing across the spine can be quite…[Read more]

ChaosDani;56294 wrote:
LOL. Sometimes even little old ladies need to be put in their places. I’m all for respecting elders, but if someone is so blatantly rude to you, it’s ok to make a cheap shot at the size of her ass. Doesn’t matter how old she is.

Actually I amazed of how many elderly people DEMAND respect from younger people but think…[Read more]

Aussie_Al;56067 wrote:
I am no sure where is started either but I do think shows like Miami Ink and LA ink have helped the general public accept it more!

That’s a bit like the problem with the chicken and the egg though… what came first? Why make a show about getting tattooed when no one cares or even worse thinks very negatively about it? I…[Read more]

eatatjerms;56037 wrote:
Bawk bawk bawk.. JK Chicken for pain or just the fact that your whole arm would be covered?

From my back tattoo I know that I would probably not be able to stand much more than 2 hours each session. That would make it take AGES.

Also I feel a full sleeve needs to be shown off in its full glory… I’d end up keeping it…[Read more]

Thanks for all the input guys!

This is still a very rough first draft, I’ll have to print it in the final size to see how much detail can be added… learned my lesson from the betta!

I’ll definitely add some more shading though, especially highlights to emulate the single “strands”, these are just the base colours

– About the yellow colour -…[Read more]

Another early midlife crisis candidate, had mine done earlier this year. Turning 27 in April.