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After wading through the 433 pages of great art here i thought i'd include my own art too :) Currently my artist and I are working on my second sleeve (and chest piece), this sleeve is Tamatori-Hime themed. And a close-up of the chest piece: Next week we are going the continue with the background on the upper arm, and start on some coloring. This is a picture of my other sleeve that we did last year: And the chest piece: All the work is being done by Bonel of the Corazon Santo tattoostudio in The Netherlands.

Hard to beat that hooper sleeve, but I got this little party cat from my buddy Chris Cotner from Austin. More people should check him out, he rules.

I don't think we have a thread dedicated to Ed Hardy, so let's use this one to share anything Ed related. If anyone deserves their own thread on here it's gotta be him, right? I spent my evening rewatching some old Hardy interviews, and I even found a couple new ones (to me at least). Here's a few of them. Joel Selvin chats with Ed Hardy about his life in tattoos at Book Soup in Hollywood Interview in conjunction with "the unruly art of Don Ed Hardy" exhibit that was displayed last year Part 1 Part 2 - - - Updated - - - I have more, but there's a 3 videos per post limit, so I'll have to wait untill someone else posts something in here.

The only long term effect will probably be looking awesome.

Long sleeve shirts.

Nothing to add, but I am excited to see how this thread develops and this will also let you post another three videos.

@BrianH that's a great idea! Looking like shit exactly as it should look like shit :)

i'm getting some more work from o'donnell soon

My biggest regret is not getting tattooed by him when I had a chance back in the 90's. Didn't quite have the cash flow. I should have robbed a bank...

This thread is getting locked because there is nothing really to add to this.

Took a trip down to Virginia yesterday and had my consultation with Brian Bruno. First appointment some time in November for a half-sleeve and chest plate. Changed up my original plans of Henning do this because I decided to have him do my ribs instead as that is something I wouldn't mind as having in progress for an extended period of time.

Also btw if its less than a year old it will be a long long time before it begins to break down if it was done well. Applying lotion or sunblock every day several times a day is pretty tedious, esp if this is a life long plan to keep them looking 'new' or fresh or whatever. That will get old real fast. The sun is really the biggest problem. A well applied tattoo can be vivid for a very long time if it doesn't see much sun. I might also want to just give my opinion that a tattoo that has 'settled' into the skin looks better. That means it won't look brand new anymore but it looks a little more natural for lack of a better word, particularly with ink made without synthetic binders.

This is a painting of a skull and a book because HP Lovecraft.

Speaking of Mr. O'Donnell, I start the full back piece experience with him in 2015. I remember at one point in time I thought people were nuts for getting their whole backs done. As time went on though it slowly became something that I admired and dreamed about doing. With that being said it's time to start saving!

We got married last Thursday if that applies :D Wedding last thursday and my new larger tattoo started the sunday! good week eh! :D

Second session on my back tomorrow with Grez, and then another little tattoo from Ron Wells. I'm excited and probably a little nuts.

The best thing you can do is what I did - wait until you are old to get your tattoos and that way you'll probably be dead before they begin to fade! That's my plan and I'm sticking too it. I also don't have to wait to see what they look like when I get old. I can just look in the mirror! :)

Ed Hardy and Ron Nagle Ed and Bob Roberts Interview with Don Ed Hardy and Phil Sparrow (Thanks for uploading @ShawnPorter)

I doubt it's all that awesome in the big scheme of things, but Molly (the Big Dug!) was looking pretty pleased with herself last week on the top of Cairn Gorm. Scotland's 6th biggest mountain, no less! I was with her, for the avoidance of doubt. ;)

Saving and waiting to get more work on my back from Chad K..............hope to get 2 more appointments in before years end. Would like to get another tattoo from Jason Scott this summer and maybe a new york walk in when my wife gets her sleeve worked on. Then I gotta get more laser so I can join in on this chris o donnell love wagon...AGAIN.

@Graeme this was solely an opportunity to derail this thread... Speaking of whole worlds in songs:

i didn't even know that those tags are usually the artist signature :-) The tag on the Tamatori-Hime chespiece has my wife's name, 'Kokoro no Tomo' (Soulmate) and 'Ei' (Eternity) in it. In my dragon sleeve there's 'Futago' (Twins), the names of my twin boys, and 'Ei' (Eternity). (They are also born last year, in the year of the dragon). The big kanji on my lower is the name of my daughter, 'Manamusune' (Beloved daughter) and 'Ushidoshi' (year of the Ox) as the seal.

Does anyone else have one of these? - Smart Art Press - "Mad Dog Mutant" Bob Roberts vs. Don The Dog Ed Hardy [poster] It doesn't show it as being signed in the picture on the site (but it does mention it in the description), i've attached mine (unfortunately a lot of glare in this picture).

^ this. Tattoos age, just like we do.

this is everything i enjoy about tattoos, some people don't get why i have traditional tattoos (panthers,daggers,roses Etc..) without any deep life meaning behind them but its because they already have meaning to begin with. also any 90's cartoon style inspires me Ren and Stimpy Angry Beavers Cat Dog Ahhhhh real monsters Rocko's modern life hey arnold Mmmm Nostalgia...

Usually the vanitas paintings with flowers were a commentary on the fleeting nature of life, same as a skull being a memento mori. Flowers die, food spoils, etc. and usually the flower paintings included flowers in the bouquet that were toxic to each other or if you look closely some flowers are halfway wilted. (Art History major in college)

in that horrible chics defense, that johnny dangerously dude is a fucking moron. Anyone who has a mohawk and is not a punk is an idiot.

Stoney by Steve Byrne.

Who are the 5 best rappers of all time? O'Donnell, O'Donnell, O'Donnell, O'Donnell, O'Donnell He spits hot fire.

Yeah...I think it might be. The razor I'm thinking about giving him is a vintage 1940s Schick Injector (they used to issue them to the troops during WWII) and he specializes in traditional american, so I think it would be right up his alley.

if you are jealous i must be doing it right

"Tie 'em in" by getting something totally unrelated.

I just find a lot of that stuff...DIJ, Sol Invictus, Of The Wand and the Moon, etc...to be really one-dimensional. It gets boring. Current 93 has so much going on musically and lyrically that listening to it is sort of like trying to figure out a puzzle and there's always something new there, especially when you start looking into the references David Tibet is making. There's whole worlds in those songs.

^ This. While my tattoos definitely look "different" after they settled, they look much more natural (and better in my opinion).

New Uncle Acid

HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E Howard and in general a lot of that Weird Tales stuff Thomas Ligotti The music of Current 93 Frank Frazetta Michael Whelan Greg Irons Arthur Rackham Gustave Dore Folklore and mythology Cosmological drawings Ernst Haeckel So many things really.

It may have been months since I been on this forum, but Ed is the G.O.A.T! I am glad I got to meet him back in 2010 at Taki's and Roman's convention.

She looked like an alien.... now I'm all for people getting tattooed as they please, but didn't she kind of come off as the real try hard, "look at me im so edgy with my face tattoos and bald head?" She looked like an alien, and she couldn't tattoo for shit

Here's where I'm at so far. It's still super rough, I need to actually figure out where the light source is and put the highlights and shadows in the correct places, and a million other things, but I'm still working things out and just enjoying it:

"Does your mother know you have those?" (I'm 47 years old btw) Answer: "My mother's dead ma'am. Her skull is on my back." (not really, but i felt like messing with her) :D

Kuniyoshi Hokusai Kunisada etc...

Style, not really. Tattoos tend to look a certain way for a reason and while I think there are some artists who can push the boundaries of what a tattoo looks like, I think it's important to recognize the constraints and limitations of skin, and part of that means that you can't do just anything with a tattoo and expect it to age well. I think the tendency as of late towards "watercolor" style tattoos is an example of that: I think that some people's tattoos in that style may be okay, I'm thinking in particular of Amanda Wachob's tattoos because they're abstract and don't rely on readability in the way that something figurative does, but a pastel-coloured bird with no black outline...forget it, that's nothing in five years. As for subject matter, pretty much anything is game as long as it can be tattooed as a strong image.

The old lady was awesome.

Apologies for the crappy picture, I screenshotted this from IG. I'll post a better picture tomorrow, but check it out! By Sean Perkinson at FTW in Oakland. Steve Boltz flash.

Ah what, the hell, I'll give this a try this month. This was done by Thomas Hooper in five sessions between October 2012 and June 2013, mostly at Saved but with one session at the Rochester Convention:

This will be awesome.

I will keep doing it for as long as I live lol

haha I will solve this right now with wikipedia. - - - Updated - - - and we are both right, it just so happens when I learned about it, my teacher only focused on the meanings of the flowers and other stuff. We never discussed skulls or death, only certain flowers and instruments meant certain types of sin and bad behavior

we sure will. I'm fully booked but he might still hve a couple of spots free. There will also be Stefano, Oliver and Emiliano working at the booth :)