Full Back Piece Thread

[DevilMan]

My back is now officially done! :cool:

We had a little 1 hour session today, which was totally brutal unfortunatly, probably a lot of places weren't healed enough from the previous session (about a week and half ago ;-) ).

Some statistics : My backpiece was done in a 6 month period in a total of 31 hours :cool:

[tatB]

@DevilMan that is fast for a full back! how tall (or short) are you?

[DevilMan]

I'm around 176cm tall

[tatB]

I'm around 176cm tall

fyi that is about 5'8'' for metric impaired americans like myself :)

still impressive.

[Shaggy]

That is very quick.

I wish I was at that stage with mine. I am 33 hours in and only have outline and 3/4 of the background done.

It looks great, congratulations on finishing.

[Lance]

Congratulations @DevilMan!!! That's a beautiful and strong tattoo. And as others have said, very quick too. Cheers!

[Cork]

@DevilMan good thing you got that done before the artist moved away!! It looks so good. I'm very happy for you and thanks for sharing all of the progress.

[Iwar]

Congrats @DevilMan! It's been fun watching this come together. Beautiful backpiece.

[SeeSea]

Boy, looking at this makes getting a back piece look easy! Awesome! I just love the fox :-)

[Wilhell]

Yesterday, after two years in progress, Marius Meyer finally finished my back piece. It was 6 painful well worth hours. Going back for a touch-up in the belly plates and white in eyes/claws/teeth. @Iwar has some cool footage from the session that he maybe will post, I think?

[DevilMan]

@Wilhell Looks awesome man! Congrats!

[MrToby]

@Wilhell @DevilMan both of your pieces look incredible. Shines a light at the end of the tunnel for mine. 2nd session on Monday.

[Eilin]

Damn @Wilhell this is the best thing I've seen in a long time! Bra jobbet! Grattis igjen! :cool:

[Lance]

Your back looks amazing @Wilhell. Congratulations!!!

[ironchef]

@Wilhell FANTASTIC!!!! Love how dynamic and powerful it looks and the colors just POP!

[phickey]

Started my back with Aaron Coleman last weekend.....shit hurts so bad haha. Got through 4 hours of lining the back and butt, next session lining the thighs and hopefully some background.

[hogg]

Right on, @phickey! What are you getting?

[MikeL]

@Wilhell congrats brother!

Mike

[phickey]

Right on, @phickey! What are you getting?

Rock of ages with a dragon added in! I'll probably post a picture on instagram after all the lining is done to see!

[MrToby]

So Monday was the second session on my dragon back piece. There were definitely some interesting moments in it that were less than fun, but I am very happy with the progress and can't wait for the next session at the start of September.

[Cork]

So many lines! Looks great @MrToby How long are your sessions?

[MrToby]

@Cork You are correct there are definitely a lot of lines. Some of them were less than fun, especially around the base of the spine.

The appointments are booked for 3 hours at a time but I reckon with drawing time we end up with about two and a half hours of tattooing so we're maybe 5 hours in at this point.

[Shaggy]

I thought it was about time I posted my recently in progress backpiece, started end of Feb this year.

This pic is about 36 hours in progress. I am quite tall and also have a bit of extra meat around the "love handle" area so is a big amount of skin to cover.

I have been doing constant 3 hour sessions every 2-3 weeks with 2 x 6 hour sessions thrown in. Generally have been pretty good with each session but I have to say left thigh background shading for some reason sucked incredibly, probably one of the least favourite sessions of all my new work. Strange thing was the right thigh shading a week later (not shown in pic) was easy.

I just noticed btw the snakes body going across my arse does line up, it looks like it doesn't but must have been the way I was standing in the pic. It was taken after the left thigh shading session and I was not a happy camper. :)

Also just attached the outline after the 1st 6 hour session.

[Iwar]

I thought it was about time I posted my recently in progress backpiece, started end of Feb this year.

Looks great so far! Who's doing it?

[Shaggy]

Looks great so far! Who's doing it?

Thanks Iwar,

Kian Forreal owner of Authentink in Surry Hills Sydney is doing the work.

Love his work and a great guy to boot. Unfortunately on my back he has had to work around 3 previous tattoos which I have had laser removal on. Already without it being finished and colour added I struggle to see 2 of the pieces and the 3rd is being covered next session. :)