@GrayCatLove 131594 wrote:

This is true. I was hasty in what I said since he contacted the artist. I don’t think artists should be expected to give their time away for free. No one should miss making money or getting work done to have a vague, pointless chat. My point was that if someone makes a phone call and leaves a message, unless someone’s…

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Just to mention, I am able to reach him, just not anytime I want to… He doesn’t take more than one or two days to answer my messages.
Anyway, all I need now is to gather some money so I can start working on the sleeve, we’ve got a few ideas already, when I give him the signal he’ll draw me the first one or two pieces and we will move from there.…[Read more]

@yodaddynukka 131422 wrote:

definitely good work! ganso galvao is another excellent artist from brasil. check him out.

Oh, cool! I will!
Damn, I could browse trhough tattoo artists and tattoo work all day haha
Anyway, I’m going to gather some more cash so I’m able to tip my artist and get some work done, when I do, I’ll post it here!
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@peterpoose 131412 wrote:

Wow nice work!

Where is he based?

I know right? He’s based in Cianorte, in the state of Paraná, Brazil.
He’s probably not famous yet because he’s in a small town, but he’s changing his studio to somewhere bigger sometime soon and I’m doing all I can to spread his name around, he definetly deserves it. I even hand out…[Read more]

@yodaddynukka 131402 wrote:

Who is your artist?

This is his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/verontattoo
He doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, in my opinion

Awesome, I will check both the band and the style you mentioned.
Yeah, the tattoo has a little black metal grip to it, since it was done in my artist’s “own style”, and he’s a pretty hardcore black metal guy, with a inverted cross tattooed by himself across his eye and such lol
I’ve traded a few messages with him, he said that both the octupus and…[Read more]

Yeah, you are right, I shouldn’t copy it, I don’t know what I was thinking, copying never crossed my mind before haha
I can still use it for a reference though, my artist doesn’t copy stuff anyway.
Now, on a different note, what would you say the style of my already finished tattoo to be? I really can’t tell, to me it looks like a mix of styles,…[Read more]

Okay! New idea!
Here’s a picture of a tattoo I really liked while browsing online:

What if I used this one on the sleeve instead, and left the octopus to be done in a little bit more realistic style way on the other forearm? Do you think this would look good in black and grey, and along the owl? Though I think I’d remove the arrows and…[Read more]

Thanks for the input everyone!
Buttwheat, yeah… I said I’d love to talk to him, but he’s hardly reachable, be it by phone or internet, and I can’t afford to travel there just for a quick chat :/
Poxphobia: Well, thinking that way, yeah it would look rather nice i guess! I’d just have to figure out some more fillers before killing it with the…[Read more]

@iggybuddi 120406 wrote:

My artist was $120 hour. Charged me $650, including my deposit. And I gave him a tip in addition to that. I would’ve payed twice that. He’s amazing and deserves it. I’ll have this for my entire life. It turns out to be pretty cheap when you think of how long you’ll have it.

His rate is now at $150, due to 7-8 month waiting…

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Yeah… If I where to do it with Verissimo it would have cost me around 750 dollars… That guy is nuts.

@jerryatrophy 114892 wrote:

I think it would look good if she had her index finger over her lips telling you to shhh

I totally agree with this, it would look pretty nice. Great sketch btw!

@buttwheat 120392 wrote:

just curios how much will it be?

Well, the currency here is Reais, and 1 dollar = 2 reais, give or take.
Each session will be 100 reais, and he said about 4 sessions, so it’s going to be around 400 reais, plus the 1 hour trip there.

Ok, some news here!
I got scheduled with Veron to start my tattoo on day 15. I’m going for full black and gray on a realistic style. I chose this because personally I prefer black and gray, and I think it’ll be harder for me to just “stop liking” it, if you know what I mean.
So, I’ll stick around and when time comes, I’m going to upload pictures…[Read more]

Thanks, I’m still struggling with it, but at least I’m not AS negative anymore…
I’m really enjoying the forum, I’m feeling a lot of honesty and good intention from the people here.

Yeah, I’ll talk to the artist about adding the aurora, maybe I’ll stick to the moon though.
I really don’t want to cluster a lot of things, even because it might end up looking like a huge mess when I get old and the tattoo starts to lose all its crispness.
I’ll update with news from the tattoo artist as soon as I get them. Thank you all again for…[Read more]

Oh god… So many good ideas running by me now, and thinking about the color… Yeah, maybe a few accents of green and red here and there could look really nice (for both the “evil” and the “good” part, such as the aurora and I don’t know, some redness on the lowest part) who knows, maybe even changing the mist all together for the aurora, but…[Read more]

Well, I can see it being smaller skulls for sure, and fit more than 3 that I think would fit on that size… I thought of adding like a snake running from skull to skull as well, and its tail ending near the mouth, like a circle.
I’m not sure about the aurora borealis, I mean, it looks awesome, but I’m REALLY pale and I think it would be cool to…[Read more]

Really? When I saw this tattoo of his I thought he was pretty good o:

That second guy, he’s REALLY good with details (imo, at least) but some of his work isn’t exactly symetrical, am I right?

Well… The idea of the huge skulls is just as unreal as the wolf coming out of the mist to me. But I do get what you mean.
This is the guy I’m thinking about going to. http://www.facebook.com/alexandreverissimotattoo/photos_stream
And there is also this guy, he lives 1 hour away from my place: http://www.facebook.com/verontattoo/photos_stream
I’m…[Read more]