Tattoos

[seawolf]

@goosehd As my tattoo artist is fond of saying, "getting tattooed sucks." And he's right. But he's also the fastest artist I've ever been tattooed by, and between his skill and speed, I'll keep going back. I have a piece from about 20 years ago that took 22 hours over several sessions, and I'm confident my current guy could knock out that same amount of space in less than half of that time, and it would look a whole lot better.

[seawolf]

@Matt It's such a classic! My tattoo artist said that in his 15 years of tattooing, nobody had ever come in and asked for a speed skull, and he absolutely loved tattooing it on me. And it came out great!

[JerkStore]

Had a touch up done and got a new piece yesterday. My son’s Winnie the Pooh is actually yellowish now. Actually matches the shade in the scene perfectly. Really happy how this was fixed.

And a pine cone for my recently passed father. Thought they came out great.

[Daniel San]

today the second 6 hour torture ‍️
some impressions

[goosehd]

@Daniel-San Very nice

[Mizmazzle]

@Daniel-San looking very clean!!!

[Daniel San]

@Mizmazzle
yes , Moe my tattoo artist is awesome
waited 1,5 years to get the appointment
the 3 peonies are for my 3 kids 🥰

[pechelman]

I don't have any tattoos but still appreciate them and this thread in general. One of my favorite youtube channels did an interesting feature on them as to what's really going on when you get one. Probably all old info to those of you who have them, but still found fascinating.

[EdH]

@pechelman There's also this one, which makes it look brutal (though Gav is not a professional - my guy thought he was going too deep in places). It's less about the healing and immune system, more about the mechanics of actually getting one.

[pechelman]

Thanks @EdH! The slow mo guys have a few other videos I enjoy too, but I confess to get impatient with their videos and go right to the highspeed video I wanted to see. The kurtzgesagt video has one animation of the mechanics which looked just as brutal as that actual video closeup. At least it was to me!

[Giles]

Keat designs one.....

He's not even 7 FFS........

[endo]

where are your's @Giles

[Daniel San]

next session yesterday
only color missing now

[EdH]

@Daniel-San I'm wincing at the thought of all that solid black going in, but it looks incredible

[scarfmace]

looks like you took it like a boss!

[Denman John]

Picked up a couple of new tattoos today while in Hanoi…

[EdH]

@Denman-John Damn that's really nice work.

[jfk1117]

Used to get tatted a lot back in my NYC days by the guys at Smith Street. Been exactly 10 years since the last, which seems crazy. Posting pic of the last via Dan Santoro

[Denman John]

@EdH Thanks for the kind words! It was a long day in the chair, but I’m really happy how they turned out.

[injunjack]

my speed skull. First I was like hell no, looks like 5 years olds drawing, after about 12h I decided to have one...