Why Wicked? I’m sure it’s a great musical, (and one I’m definitely thinking about seeing when I visit New York on labor-day weekend) but it’s not the most iconic one around.

It’s an interesting idea, though. I think I would choose Chicago or Phantom Of The Opera or one of the very old, very Broadway classics. Hmmm… the Phantom’s mask could be a…[Read more]

Well, the default setting is to automatically subscribe to all threads you participate in, and sending one e-mail per day for each thread is also default IIRC. This can all be changed in your subscription preferences.

So you got no problem at all 🙂

Are you getting an email every time somebody replies to every single thread?

mrchen;93095 wrote:
I have really enjoyed my first week

Glad to hear it 🙂

I should think that any competent cover-up artist should be able to put most anything on top of that. The best thing to do would find a good artist and show this to him. He’ll probably freehand draw over it anyway.

WardyInk;92976 wrote:
Remove it. Fast.

Actually… I think he should remove it slowly.. you know, that’s a pretty big band-aid :p

buttwheat;92668 wrote:
Fuck the metric system these numbers dont mean anything to me.;)

You English lot are useless at measurements 🙂

Well yikes, that sure looks like it’s put on there with a sharpie.

Any libra/scale image with thicker lines would do just fine, and I don’t think you even need to go for full tribal black.

I start with the imagery, trying to build it in my head. The layout of the scene then pretty much dictates the availability of locations to put it.

Didn’t see the dragon there on the pic. See it now. It’s certainly less empty, but I’m still not seeing it working.

Hmm… not entirely sure what it is, really.

A single Buddha in the middle surrounded by nothing but smoke… then out of the smoke comes a car careening into the sunset next to a dead tree. Then the smoke also starts to solidify and turns into tribal.. which I rarely ever like….

I dunno man. The whole thing just feels off, somehow. Would…[Read more]

Oh.. crap. I mixed up the instructions… if I was supposed to tattoo the virgins, who was I supposed to stake?

I thought you also needed to tattoo a pentagram onto yourself with the chicken blood to purify the needle?

CaptJon;92900 wrote:
now you offer substance only after be called out.

That would be because this needed no more substance to begin with. My opinion is my own and does not require me to explain why I have it. I added the explanation only for you, but it was a pointless thing to do since it added nothing to my initial statement.
Bathing fresh…[Read more]

What kind of dragon? Surely that influences your choices. Tribal? Eastern? Western? Color? Black & Grey?

That is a pretty interesting question.

As far as I understand it, the ink is injected into the Dermis, which is beneath the Epidermis.. the Epidermis is the area with all the tiny blood vessels and nerve endings and what not, and I would THINK that this is the area that gets bruised.. not the Dermis it self.

A Dermatologist would probably be the…[Read more]

CaptJon;92890 wrote:
You are a moderator and THIS is how you answer someone looking for help?

Yes?

Wrecking Balm consists of acids and other chemicals designed to boil and tear away skin. Although the concentrations are low enough to border on it being completely useless, you are still rubbing acid into an open wound… which is going to…[Read more]

Well I can’t for the life of me see it working out, but you only need one artist that shares your vision.

The question is, does this artist exist somewhere in your extended network or not 🙂

The big problem with my tattoos, for instance, is that I don’t know of a single artist anywhere that truly shares my visions and enjoys the same…[Read more]

jacob310jacob;92801 wrote:
the tattoo guy said buy wrecking balm … does that work on new tattoos its about 6 days old

You want to rub toxins/poisons/acids/whatever into your open wounds? Go right ahead dude… it can’t hurt at all!

As for filling it up, that would not look good in my opinion.

Sadly I can’t see how some colors and some thicker lines could fix that. For me, that would only make it even harder to salvage.

Getting this memorial cross and wings covered with another cross and other wings would still be the same memorial dedication to your brother.. it would just look good.

The cross can definitely be saved by using it as…[Read more]