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Here is my submission for this months contest. My whole backpiece has been done in a 6-month period (just 31 hours in total) by Bonel from Corazon Santo, Arnhem, The Netherlands. I also have a full size picture available HERE

The winner of Tattoo of the Month August is @KBeee for this beautiful tattoo by Paul Anthony Dobleman. Congrats!! Please PM @steve1461686340 with your shirt info (size and male or female) along with your address. New contest will be up shortly!

Hitting that "10 thoughtful posts" at a record pace!

off to see Grime on Friday for another session on my back. It's really coming along and while I'd rather not put it on the interwebz, if you see me at the SFO convention I'd have no problem showing it...

Got this started last Wednesday by Mike Stockings, he was guesting at Black Garden Tattoo in London. Few more sessions to go and other bits and pieces to add! Super happy with how it's started.

Haven't entered one of these in a while so thought i'd enter the ring with my parrot by Chad Koeplinger from the Amsterdam Convention earlier this year. Looking forward to seeing everyone elses entries!

I can't actually answer your question, but I can tell you that I found my shin to be amazingly easier than I thought it would be. As in, one of the easiest spot so far

For people who actually tattoo, I notice the terms alternating between different styles of tattooing. The more rendered, over the top styles seem to go with artist more, while the traditional/craftsmen minded guys seem to opt for tattooer. Clients almost across the board use tattoo artist, or occasionally tattooist. Some variations seem to occur based on era in which someone came from, as well. Similar to shops or tattooers now using the term "professional tattooing" to differentiate from scratchers/fly-by-night kind of guys, tattoo artist did seem to be a way to try to separate from those who aren't serious. Personally, I call myself and use the term tattooer. I find I work best thinking of what I do on skin as all craft, with art being on paper or canvas, and ending with my final line drawing for a stencil. However, like a potter, or someone who works in a bronze foundry casting people's sculptures, I understand there is an artistic component to the craft.

Chris Brand does the best neo-Japanese in the L.A. area IMO Sung Song & Julian Zeff @ Unbreakable in Studio City also do nice work Horisuzu @ Dark Horse & Small Paul @ True Tattoo both do more traditional-style Japanese, and are excellent There's also Onizuka Tattoo in Little Tokyo, JoJo Ackermann, Robert Atkinson -- the list goes on... My koi sleeve was done by Kim Saigh @ Memoir. She can do anything.

Just went to my first ever yoga class. It was fun and felt good!

I went on saturday around noon. Only spent about 90 minutes walking around. The main room with the stage, microphone, and speakers was very loud. Recognized very few of the artists' names but chatted with the ones I was familar with and ended up enjoying it.

Welcome! Post it here. I love a good "name this tattooer" challenge.

Doesn't matter that ya got bony shins. All of us don't have much meat on the shin bone. You'll be sweet. We have a tendency to over think an area in advance of having the area drilled, I was the same when embarking on the shin, and I gotta agree with what's already been suggested, the calf is way harder a slog than the shin. You'll be pleasantly surprised mate. No need to seek an alternative at all. There's nerve motor points that sit in the calf, hence the twitching. Sucks eh!

Grime said he knows what he has planned, he just wouldn't say which is no surprise.... I'm seeing him Friday for a session on my back...

Read this: WHO calls for urgent action to preserve power of antibiotics and make new ones | Society | The Guardian I'm not a fan of antibiotics unless your limb is about to fall off, too many doctors prescribe them happily for little reason, specially when it comes to tattoos that they think look 'infected'. the more you take antibiotics the more they wont work when you really are in a life threatening situation. your tattooer (if reputable) will always know more about this stuff than a doctor, it is weird that it looks like this 16 days on but i'd keep what youre doing up. Keep it clean and dry untill it begins to feel better. Many moons ago i had a very problematic foot tattoo on myself, it took over 4 weeks for it to be fully healed, and some times it takes a longer than expected and sometimes it looks worse than others. Take care!

I don't know if this is awesome or shitty or not but... this morning I get up, get ready for work, then decide to bleach the rubber bath mat that's discolored. So, in a cup of bleach goes into the tub with some water to cover. Next thing I know, one of the cats has his front paws IN THE TUB WITH BLEACH-Y WATER, sees me then starts to run away. I had to catch him, wipe his paws down (and everywhere he walked, thankfully hard surfaces), then hold him over the bathroom sink and rinse his paws off. He's the squirmiest cat I've ever known, so it was interesting. I decide that the cat's paws need a second cleaning after seeing him lick one, then run to the water dish and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink. So, in his paws go again into a bunch of water. It was a fun morning... Cat's fine, no problems, still alive, all that good stuff. You can't make this stuff up. Here's to hoping this weekend is actually relaxing.

As it's payday my deposits finally went down for Todd noble and Valerie Vargas, :)

Really excited with this fresh one on my knee, Tattooed by Norbert at Hunter and Fox in Sydney.

So Chad finished my back recently. Here it is.

Try looking up Khuonh Ngyuen out of Daruma Tattoo in San Jose.

This by Robert Ryan

lots of yard work today...no no - it was cool ...really

So much awesome shit going down.

Never posted on this before but here is my barbershop quartet done by Steve Bryne at rock of ages Austin last July, it's not going to win but thought I'd share it with people

It's like winning twice.

I've spent enough time in the chair without. I figured the shin would be a crappy area and wanted something to help me sit through completion, rather than splitting the sessions. I did 8hrs on my upper calf without anything. Not the point. I'll go without, though, since y'all say the shin isn't that bad.

In fact...I like this so much, it required a FB status update. Believe me, I never status update. I only post motorcycle events, videos and tattoo related events and pictures. Thanks again. Small things eh? [emoji16]

Makes sense to me @Graeme [emoji106] I love this, going to make reference to this forever now when asked these fkn dumb ass why questions. That'll fuck em.

I think it's hilarious that the supposed deep personal meaning of his tattoos derives not from (to paraphrase Stewart Robson here) deep-rooted human drives and archetypes, but from The fucking Matrix. On the topic of deep-rooted human drives and archetypes, here's an article that appeared in Slate a couple of years ago about how scientists are hypothesizing that anxiety developed in humans as a defensive mechanism against being killed and eaten by tigers, panthers, and snakes. So basically if you want a tattoo that gets right down to the essence of what it is to be a human being, get a panther.

I think he means "...on this site: where art is more important than personal meaning." But, he isn't well informed on sentence structure. As for it not being a slam on the site... I think his idea of trying to hide insults is akin to Ricky Bobby's use of the phrase "with all due respect."

To each is own, I say.

Finally got my elbow done. Was worth waiting, I'm stoked about it.

I hope to have my back done by Grime one day! I'm sure it's amazing.

Does anyone know the breakdown of how much fish actually goes to this sea lion? Like what percent does sea world get and what percent does he get? As specific as possible would be best!

If anyone is planning on going, you should really think about meeting up with all these guys. Good people the lot of them.

A little cleaner pic, taken a few days ago. Missed a couple of lines we need to go back for at the next session, but that was a long day and a lot of lines :)

Thread locked! We do not discuss finances, tips, or green soap budget for that matter here @anomaly1964. Read the newbie guidelines, and please try to read between the lines instead of looking for loopholes. I'm sure you had an idea of how a question like that would be welcomed here. If you don't respect our guidelines you are more than welcome to leave.

I have a consult with Thomas Hooper next Friday and my next visit with Kore Flatmo the following week. Cant wait!

I got my first tattoo at classic. i think that's where ill be getting this one done. hopefully by Lucas. i also have looked into ollies work, the good news is i waited so long to get tattooed i have lots of prime real estate to work with haha

Yeah, the worst part is already done. The rest is way more tolerable. Here's my new tattoo by Unmon at LTW (Barcelona). Line by machine, shading using tebori (holy shit is it slow!) A classical samurai and oni fighting. One session out of 3. Next one will be on september 9th

Just missed running down a school kid who stepped out in front of me by a faaarkin inch! That's awesome, otherwise I woulda been posting in the shit thread. Cold beers, choice tunes and easy company tonight is on the cards. Sweet [emoji106]

I agree with @jimmyirish....great looking photo, awesome landscape, but wouldn't be something I'm interested in if it were translated literally to a tattoo. To me it looks very serpentine. How about a serpent, snake or dragon in water or turning into water with the same basic colors of the picture?

I'm wrapping up the label/branding for my herbal products line, making herbal medicine, working on my blog, schtuff like that. Been pretty busy - looking forward to the long weekend and relaxing (and sleeping!!!)

Getting tattooed by Adde Ramstedt tomorrow. Tibet style dagger on the lower arm. Been wanting to make this tattoo for 2 years so I'm stoked it's happening finally

@MsRad hasn't posted on here in a while due to school business. Anyways, she got engaged today! Congrats!

Powerful piece.

Thrown me sides & a leg in, not me back yet I think. Anyway, back tattooed by CP, Brisbane Australia. Cheers.

I always thought the panther/tiger/leopard head gettin' stabbed was a symbolic reference to mans intellect(the dagger) cutting through his more base, animal instincts. Intellect vs. instinct is what I have always thought.

This would be so much cooler if LST was a bar, and some drunken idiot blurted all that out in front of the regular patrons. Hahaha.

I love flowers on the hands and I also really like this ... Jondix Gerhard Wiesbeck