If your tattooist can’t shade your tattoo, you need to find a new one.

Oh no, that’s a horrible product! It’ll completely ruin your tattoo!

Seriously though, it’s unscented and very mild. Definitely a good product.

Very good.

I just hope you’re using liquid soap, because soap bars carry all sorts of nasty crap you don’t want in your open wounds 🙂

Amazingly enough Wardy wasn’t being an ass. He was attempting a conversation with you and raising a valid point.

Why on earth didn’t you think about this BEFORE you got tattooed? It’s pretty late in the game to have it already happen and being completely unprepared for the problems at hand. (unintentional pun, there)

As for your problem, I’d…[Read more]

yodaddynukka;94573 wrote:
can we remove this horrible sub forum now?

Why? There’s NY Ink now, and doubtless others in the making as well 🙂

Welcome to the forums quadcam.

The problem with studying on your own, as has been discussed already, is the fact that it’s much more difficult to unlearn than it is to learn. Building a set of poor methods will only make your mentor’s job that much more difficult. Most mentors will not even take on scratchers (that is, people that have studied on…[Read more]

Sorry Mickey, but tattooing questions (and their answers) are not allowed here. That’s what your apprenticeship and your mentor are for.

As others have said, the back is the biggest, smoothest piece of canvas on the body, so mine will hopefully have a very large fantasy scene on it, taking up the entire back from neck to arms and ass. No, I won’t see it without a mirror or pictures, but the scene can’t fit anywhere else 🙂

First off, welcome to the forum Matt.

Secondly, your initial post is so full of animosity that it’s no wonder some people might choose to get annoyed. Not because you’re a scratcher, but because you come in here with an attitude and automatically assuming everyone here is an asshole.

Granted, you’re not entirely wrong in that assumption, but still 🙂

Never said anything about sleeve tattoos.

Why? It’s not like the music makes the tattoo process any less painful. If anything, it can be a pain in it’s own right.

Wardy;94548 wrote:
Imagine a priest with a sleeve.

Yes?

Most of them do. What’s your point?

Thank you. I don’t have much hope to be honest 🙂

When? Whenever I can find the artist and the cash. The cash isn’t exactly easy but finding the artist is probably worse 🙂

First hour and a half: “Fuck me that stings..”
After the first hour and a half: “Why the hell did I decide to do this?? This is just stupid! I’m never doing this again!”

fayefaye5;94542 wrote:
Yeah very true, i do see your point. I do want to stick somewhat to the original illustrations though, so the imagination part will be moreso for the tree and the ladder etc which I didnt think would be too much of an issue.

Well, my problem is that I want to create complete scenes. That means drawing the characters…[Read more]

There’s nothing wrong with posting pics in threads, and if they aren’t completely gross (gore and guts for instance) then I don’t see a problem with it at all. 🙂

KillianMick;94504 wrote:
I’d say get both!

Actually, the Stargate address at the top contains the Earth address, so getting the first one IS getting both 🙂

Sorry Brandon, but although I love Stargate I don’t think that would ever be a good tattoo.

xanderx;94473 wrote:
(i tried one time to request to ban one user for spamming but got no reply whatsover)

More than likely the person was banned as per your request. Isn’t that all the reply you need? 🙂
Incidentally, there’s no way to reply to the post reports except via searching the forum for the reporter and manually selecting to message…[Read more]

Parademic;94528 wrote:
Getting tattoo’d is a choice, being black, or a woman isn’t.

That’s besides the point. Why should I be discriminated against for choosing to get tattooed, any more than I should be discriminated against for choosing to wear a green sweater and blue pants?

Well, statistically speaking you’re bound to find the correct tattoo artist in the USA, so it’s a definite plus 🙂