Wow, what a beautiful piece.

Didn’t fancy Jim’s compassionate nature and caring hand then? never happier than when he’s causing pain is Jim 😀

Mantis will be a boring upper arm position, but I think that the coral reef background will probably extend onto my shoulder and back a little but I’m not entirely sure yet.
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Looks nicely done, congratulations 😎

I know what you mean about Dan, I absolutely love his work but have no idea for something for me that would suit his style. I’ll probably buy one of his sketches for the front room though 🙂

Your Sleeve or rib piece sounds great, and it does sound as if David will be the man to do it.
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Believe it or not, that’s called a skin rip 😀

As above, bio-mech or bio-organic styles work extremely well with skin rips and just happen to be my favourite tattoos although they aren’t particularly popular.

There’s an example in my signature although it’s a lot more specific than just a skin rip example .
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That can’t be real, surely….

Ah! saw this on the RFUK thread, thought it looked a bit too good to belong on there 😀

As I said there, looks fantastic so far, congratulations 😎

Butcher is fantastic, but you have seen Dan Chases work? his B&G is beautiful.
He works from ritual Art tattoo in Rainham, Kent, so not far from you

http://www.n9ne.co.uk/

(warning, website is ‘kin annoying but worth the hassle)

Got to admit I quite like tribal too, if it’s well done.

Yours is looking good, congratulations 😎

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I think I must have been in on two days when Jim was picking 😉

I shall definitely be going back 🙂

Ouchie 😀

Did you get to looks at some of Dan’s work? he’s another on my list although all the artists seem to be of a high standard. The new artist, Tracey, has been doing some lovely old school work as…[Read more]

Looks real nice so far

Butcher is a great name for a tattoo artist.

Looks fantastic, congratulations 😎

It is a nice studio isn’t it 🙂 depending on which artists music is on on the day!

Siamese fighting fish? vivid colours and a bit more “foot shaped” than a humming bird

I reserve the right to make what ever decision I see fit regarding job applicants.
That’s my job, to protect the shareholders interests, that’s what I’m paid to do so that’s what I do. Sorry.

Superb, congratulations 😎

Just pop your cheque in the post for the good luck to the usual address… 😀

Hopefully you’re right although judging by the work peering out from the torso, it’s not looking promising !

His bike is powered by bricks, don’t fuck with him.

Good luck for tomorrow, too 😉

Good luck dude, it’s not easy out there.
I imagine you’d have a lot of transferable skills though, hope you land something very soon