Just checked out your album and like what you’ve already got on your arm. Looking forward to the update!

I think it depends on the caliber of your artist.

Yeah, I like the 1st one better than the 2nd. You’ll still have to explain it to non-basketball people – but most of us do that with with most of our tattoos anyway.

Sorry, don’t know anything about Manchester, but let’s see your girlfriend’s tattoos.

I don’t think you’re going to fit a dragon around what you’ve got now. Are you open to your new work overlapping/covering part of your old work?

Very nice rendition of that painting. I love how that water is working.

Please shoot us another picture after it’s healed and all that chicken skin has flattened out.

I’ve already covered up the only one I regreted getting, but more over I regret the uneducated process by which several of my tattoos were chosen and done years ago. Poor planning. Helter skelter placement. On top of that I thought my artwork was as good as or better than the next guy, and I made the mistake of thinking some random tattooist was…[Read more]

maniacthw;79869 wrote:
Any suggestions then?

Not really without understanding the balance of the symbolism, but for starters you’ll be happier years down the road if you find a better-than-average artist and go bigger.

Tajen;79843 wrote:
Looks much better after adding more detail.:)

Yep. It’s starting to shape up nicely.

That would be hard to pull off, even without the lyrics.

And forget the lyrics, you don’t need them. No one else but you is going to understand why they are there without asking you 1st anyway – and without’em they’ll still need to ask if they want to know.

yodaddynukka;79809 wrote:
i kinda like the placement in the pic because you can get more detail in the owl head. if you do it north/south you would have to scale down the image a little bit.

Not only that, but in it’s current postion, it’ll be staring back at anyone who happens to be looking at your outstretched arm – generally the position…[Read more]

It could get real interesting for people with all or part of a finger missing . . .

Ugh.
I actually had to go back and look at my post.
Psyche.

Welcome, welcome!

Yo!! Welcome to the light side.

reefdiver;79455 wrote:
how do i unsubcribe to threads so that i do not get an email when there is a new post ???

open a new e-mail account :rolleyes:

there are several of us here, and welcome!

Reef, do you keep shaving that parrot?

garyc6663;79634 wrote:
my japanese work is about 4 year old,
i think all colour tattoos will fade in time but not sure how long it takes

Fading is in direct proportion to the amount of sun it gets.

clay1680;78739 wrote:
with a smokey color field of haze with maybe some wind bars traveling throughout will at least bring some relationships between all pieces.

or with more of the little stars and dots. There are several ways to bring together traditional style tattoos into a more congealed unit.