I think tats in general are pretty bad, but with women it’s extremely worse.
This is somewhat how I feel. The correlation between trashiness aside, I just think tattoos look awful on women. Tattoos are kind of like facial hair in that they connotate toughness and ruggedness, so it just doesn’t work out well when women have them.
I duno man, I think it’s kinda tight in a way (The OP’s tat). At first I thought meh, cause it doesn’t look as good as some art I like. But then I thought, this is kinda tight, cause it’s unique and kinda got that garage art type feel to it. (I mean that as a compliment)
Lol. I don’t wanna entertain this but well, it does help aim. Anywayz…
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r103/flymike_bucket/tat1.jpg
Left bicep. I couldn’t decide what name and image I wanted on me. My friends all call me “Fly Mike” and most of my family calls me “Baby Mike”. I thought about it and sketched this in an attempt to cover both nicknames. Yea I know it’s the Bad Boy logo but I changed the hat cock to the right side and added wings. So in essence it’s a “Baby Fly Mike” of sorts.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r103/flymike_bucket/tat2.jpg
Right bicep. Drew it also. Bled like hell tho. It’s a Pisces sign surrounded by a sun or whatever. Folks said it was some Dennis Rodman shit or a “surfer tat” and unbecoming of me. I think it’s cool and different and decided on it around the time ALL my friends got “Cross Tattoos” and shit. Had it re-done two years ago.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r103/flymike_bucket/tat3.jpg
Right-side chest. Simple. My Mom’s name.
All of those are old. Plan on gettin both shoulders and back sometime, whenever I figure out what I want.
I was going for a big mural when I got my first tat, but then I got bored.
It’s a crucified skeleton w/ devil lock hair. Not cross behind it tho’.
I think this winter(after like 9 years) I’m gonna get the rest of the torso done. It’s chillin by itself smack dab in the middle of my sternum.
Funny thing is I didn’t realise until I sat in the chair that “This is going to hurt like a bitch” but it didn’t. If any you have nails right now. Lightly run it across your chest and that’s it feels.
EDIT- I thought the tatto artist is supposed to do it on a piece of paper THEN apply to your body THEN do the tat. Am I mistaken? 'Cuz that’s how it went with me.
If the artist’s good enough they can free-hand the drawing right on you then tattoo from that. It actually works better a good amount of the time because when they draw it directly on your body they can account for natural contours and such.
I have a tribal-ish stylized lion head on my upper right arm (for my Hebrew name, Aryeh) and I’ll post pics when I can get my hands on a camera. Actually got a pretty good deal for it even though it goes from about my shoulder to a little bit above my elbow, partly because it was done in one sitting. Definitely planning on getting more, I’m just saving up + getting into shape before I do.
But wouldn’t the application be able to tell them how it will look and make the necassary adjustments as you go instead of free balling it first try?
It’s a lot quicker to draw it straight on, and with good artists there isn’t really a difference in quality. I imagine it’d also be harder than you might think to make adjustments to a stencil based on how it looks when applied to someone’s body.
I dunno about you guys, or if they do this everywhere, but when I got my first tattoo done, the artist took the design from me and used a lightbox (used for tracing) and traced it onto a piece of paper that had like, rub off ink on it. He placed it to my body and pressed down so the ink from the design just transferred to my body and then basically just traced it.
I thought this was pretty standard procedure actually, but you guys are talking about freehand and shit.
Fuck freehand, I’ll be damned if I ever get that shit. I’ve heard the horror stories and been through downtown olympia too many times to see that bullshit. Always makes me lol my ass off when I see a trailerpark/Tumwater bitch with a freehand playboy bunny that one of her guy friends did, flauntin it around when really it just looks like she got burned in a cooking accident or something. Somewhat like http://www.zhippo.com/badtattoosHOSTED/images/gallery/ACF93F6.jpg
By freehand I mean that instead of doing what Wild described they draw the design straight onto you with ink and then tattoo that. It’s really not that risky; you still get to see what they drew and make sure you like it before they start.
Ah yeah I see whatcha sayin. Theres a chance that it might even be better than tracing if the artist is good enough, if that’s the case.
Anyhow when I got mine, they didnt use a backlight or anything. He put a piece of trace paper up to my arm, said, how big do you want it (that is, after we discussed what it was gonna be), spent the next hour drawing, then adhered it to my arm when he was done and it made a purple ink outline of it all. Then he made it all clean lines and shit. It looks pretty bomb and though I trusted his talent, Im still thankful that it was a very carefully done tattoo… it took longer to plan and draw than it did to actually do, which I thought was interesting
http://www.myspace.com/kcbeast
My 1st pic is of my one and only tat, on the back of my head.
Didn’t hurt, was loud though.
Just a design I drew up and the artist did the shading on his own.
that’s fucking played-out.
…like roses and coy.
Lol
What’s your name? Mark?
What’s that tattoo man?
Its a tribal arm band.
What tribe are you in, Mark?
just got a new tattoo recently… here it is and no i didn’t get it in response to the transformers movie…wanted to get a transformers tattoo for awhile now…http://a170.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/95/l_89fa6f9f8ef0c9e012c53caf560ec4c1.jpg
this is my old one
updates from my last post on this thread…lastnight i got my first tatto…its damn near a sleeve on my arm…its funny as hell and hard to describe…i got it out of a EGM magazine from 1994…i will post pics tonight
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6063/immagine20525dt8.jpg
This is my back. Of course it’s no finished yet.
EDIT: I thought I posted in here with my older ones…guess not…
You got my respect.