dont know what area you hail from, I would take it to my local cover up, rework expert and basically get most of it covered (all but the phoenix) and rework my phoenix,

the piece needs a good bit of work, you need to speak to a good artist

they are small, they are not perfect, but thats not that big a deal, I wouldnt change anything,
bigger paws wont look to good, or as feminine, laser and re doing the work isnt worth it in this case

you do have to be much more careful with what you get and from whom, good luck

its better

ps even 13 weeks on paris island went quick!

I kinda take flack for not liking text tattoos……….I dont like text because I am in my later 40’s and I have seen 20 year old and older text tattoos………they dont look very good………now I know you all are mostly young, and you dont care, but I just want to say the body changes ALOT, tattoo lines grow, not always evenly along a space,…[Read more]

as part of the original mexican design is the use of bright colors I would say bright color

and I actually like Koi, but lord knows they are done in the same fashion too many times I believe, all Koi are not orange!
I think the Koi fish would get a break if they were done with more variety!

this brings up another interesting point, the ink peter wears, I wouldnt wear, the ink I wear peter probably wouldnt wear, the ink yodaddy wears, the same, the ink d3 wears, again the same,

we are all collectors, we like well done ink by really good artists, but while we occassionally agree on a piece, most of the time we will acknowledge it is…[Read more]

the piece has some basic drawing problems now inked in skin,
as a 20 footer it should be ok

the vag is hideous to me, but again, im not going to be the one who wears it

it is up to the wearer, but when we are asked a question by a poster we answer as fully as we can, I think overdone is somethng someone might want to consider, myself and yodaddy didnt post to anger anyone, just giving some info, maybe useful, maybe not?

if your shit hot about the idea, get several of them, one girl who is a regular at brandon…[Read more]

cool, there is alot of work like this being done, black and grey with a touch of color,
it is a nice look

alex depase is about as good as you can get for this type of work, it is a mix of styles, hyper realism color portrait mixed with day of the dead……..I agree it is so played out here in atlanta, it was cool in 2003,2004, now no one cares

hell yeah, I like it

you have some basic elements wrong and thats where you are going to need to work with others and an instructor to get you on the right track, it is great you are drawing, nothing like lots of practice

take a weekend class if that is all you can commit to, you will improve quickly

clean, I like it

I have to agree with our moderator ArniVidar on this one, I dont see how anything can flow with a closed circle, two different pieces that should be seperate…………..digging the phoenix, I would do him full color witht he wings as they are in the picture with red fading into orange and into yellow and lighter

Put me down with Adler,Yodaddy nukka and the others, no text tattoos……….too many negatives to mention

Good luck in basic!

nice piece, congratulations

cool, cant say I have seen one in a tattoo before