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Here's mine of my cats from this weekend with Grez at King's Avenue.

Got these two pieces at the London convention, Fudo-she-o by Claudia De Sabe (Black Garden Tattoo), Panther-reaper by Bart Bingham (New York Adorned) As you can see I'm very happy with the trip to the convention this year! :D

Pfew, it's all done! :) Today was the 5th and last session on my 'Tamatori-Hime' sleeve, I expected to sit for like 3 hours to color the octopus, but in the end we clocked in 5 hours of tattoo time... and the chest part was kinda borderline brutal ;-) The orange is looking rather like 'radio-active orange' :) but that will soften up a bit/a lot when it's healed. And now, fill up my back! When i've got some cash again :-))

Ryota (@unmon on instagram) did this on me today! love it!

Chris Garver did this Tengu on me, Sunday, at The London Tattoo Convention. Picture taken the day after.

I haven't been getting tattooed for very long and I don't have a lot of tattoos so I don't think that my opinion carries much weight, and nor should it, but can we have a bit of outlaw spirit in tattooing still please? It's cool that the people here for the most part are pretty average people with regular jobs, families, and lives and that the one badass thing we do is get tattooed, and while I can't speak for everybody here, I at least would like it if this part of my life could be removed from the realm of legal responsibilities and obligations and the rest of that dreary world. Take some fucking responsibility for your own actions. If you have any questions about aftercare, especially when you're getting your first tattoo, TALK WITH YOUR ARTIST ABOUT IT THEN AND THERE. Don't wait to be handed a printed out sheet of aftercare advice and then moan about it on the internet when you don't receive one.

This was just posted a while ago, a tribute video to Henning Jorgensen's 30th Anniversary at Royal Tattoo in Helsingor, Denmark. http://youtu.be/iW0062RoRiY

I think the comment quoted below is what prompted a response that may have seemed less than friendly. If you see someone is expressing themselves in a manner that is passionate or you notice that they seem to be already "hostile" and you throw sarcasm into your opinion, just about anyone will not handle you with kid gloves. That's not a forum only situation. "Agreed. You know what else is bullshit? Hospital discharge instructions and lemon laws. I mean, buyer beware. Purveyors of goods and services have no social responsibility to ensure the client's well-being once the transaction is over. Good business practice is for pussies"

If you must be a bear, be a grizzly.

A dude who interviewed adam hays at the London convention asked to take some photos of me as I have been tattooed by him a lot. Here's the photo he sent me yesterday. Little arty for me but you get the idea haha.

Anyone here know of a tattooer that's been sued for malpractice? I'm unsure it's happened, but with the number of people we have here, and the combined years of experience and knowledge that's floating around, I'd be interested to know. Because the fact of the matter is a medical release for a hospital and a tattoo release form are wildly different, period. A tattoo isn't an appendectomy. I'm sure there are states where paperwork and care and such are actually not legally required, based on what I know about many states' lax licensing laws. In terms of what's legally required for people in a tattoo shop to do for their clients, there's no national legal standard overall, and I'd imagine that if you went from state to state where licensing is more strict, you'd still find heavy variances between what's required. I came into this forum originally asking questions and saying things about which I probably had no right to in a lot of ways, I was treated pretty roughly (far more than anyone in this thread is), and it made me think that I should look at myself and level of knowledge, look at others' level of knowledge, and assess my right to blab away. In almost two years here, I have hardly posted as a result of that. I've been around tattooing literally my entire life... I spent a great deal of my early youth with my parents while they got tattooed in a shop operated by white supremacists and bikers while my father tried to keep the guy that ran the place out of trouble/jail... and realized that I didn't know enough to have an opinion that mattered yet. Still not sure that my opinion matters on a lot of things yet, but I try my best every day to learn. EDIT: for the sake of clarification, neither of my parents were white supremacists. However, in the days of tattooing being illegal, you couldn't be too picky if you wanted a good tattoo. If a guy had a sucky personality, you just had to learn to keep your mouth shut, or not get tattooed.

This, and also what Dave Borjes said: If you're an adult you should be capable of asking a question or picking up the phone like an adult (not a dig at the OP, btw, she did contact her artist one way or another). Sure, it's good for a shop to make sure the clients knows about aftercare- that's beyond dispute. But it should also be a given that people have a responsibility to make it their own, and speak up themselves if they're in the dark. After all, it's even free... The idea that tattooists better watch out and ensure they do enough hand-holding with their hapless clients, or else those clients are going to lawyer up...well, there may be people this stupidly litigious out there, but they should have to wear badges so that people providing a service in good faith can avoid them.

I'd imagine that if people decided to leave an artist simply because after care instructions were not given that a lot of prominent and well respected artists would be out a ton of customers. I know I've only been verbally told about how to care for a tattoo once and that was when I got my first one. Also, if an artist sees that you are heavily tattooed I doubt your going to get the spiel about how to care for it seeing how you have done this before. With that being said if you are worried about how to heal or the current state of your new tattoo is it that hard to contact the shop and or artist about your situation? I'm sure if you did that they wouldn't hesitate to give you further instruction and or even tell you to come down so that they can take a look at it. In all honesty, that is the best thing you could of and should of done.

Got this Namabuki from Henning Jorgensen on Saturday.

Got this Hannya from Mike Rubendall yesterday at the London convention. I love it. [/img]

I was just going to cut my own. I read a little on it yesterday and all it is is a piece of fabric 10-14 inches wide and 3 yards long.

Edit : 5 hours of chest stabbing doesn't help for your mental status, i posted my picture in the old topic :rolleyes:

Is the link not working for anyone else? Very curious to see this tattoo!

http://distilleryimage4.s3.amazonaws.com/5e53b864294111e3bcc022000a1fbb0e_8.jpg the photo quality is terrible but i got this little gap-jammer from Marcus Kuhn at the london convention this year its based off of a picture from some hori chiyo drawings...also its a self taken photo of the back of my arm in a bathroom with a terribly bright light but you get the idea. by the way the gypsy gentleman really is a True Gent.

Let's make this a thread about tattooers who haven't been tattooing for very long who you are excited about. Here are some pictures stolen from Maud Dardeau's instagram. She tattoos at Tin Tin Tatouages in Paris and has been tattooing since 2011, and is already super impressive. I would absolutely get tattooed by her: Instagram https://www.facebook.com/MaudDardeauTinTinTatouages

wasn't planning on getting anything at the convention this weekend but had to jump at the opportunity when marina inoue had some free time on my inner wrist

I know @peterpoose shared this on another forum a while ago, but damn that is some impressive work for only a year of tattooing! Her name is Line Mariëlle Kloosterman

One more to my list of fairly new but amazingly talented tattooers: Wendy Pham! I love her creatures and critters and she's a great artist: Conspiracy Inc.: Wenramen WENRAMEN

I'm fairly new to having tattoo's but having been getting this a lot recently, I'm also from Glasgow and as you know nobody does drunk arseholes like Glasgow and just the other week I had some drunk at a bus stop grabbing my arms asking where and why I got my Tattoo's - what made things worse is he was grabbing at one that was still healing. Saying that a similar thing happened with a smoking hot girl at a Nightclub a few weeks ago and for some reason I didn't mind as much!

Some fantastic Japanese pieces in here lately!

Awesome idea @Graeme !! There's a young guy on Instagram that I follow who goes by the moniker: Akuma Shugi which I think is a cosplay tag or nickname. Anyways, he's putting out some really fun tattoos. Appears to have started 2010-2011 but I can't find solid info. I believe he tattoos out of the UK. https://www.facebook.com/akuma.shugi AKUMA SHUGI Then there's Anna Day from Australia. Lots of black and grey line and dot work. Looks like she started 2008? https://www.facebook.com/annatattoos Anna Day | Westside Tattoo And also Tamara Lee. Mike Rubendall picked her out as a rising star in tattooing. She does great dotwork. Started 2010 Dotwork by Tamara Lee https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tamara-Lee/299985620053414

My industry is picking up so I'm going ask some of the managers\directors i do work for what they think about me getting my hands tattooed and how they feel about them personally and professional. Wonder what there replies will be in this day and age?

I'm a big fan of putting a pillow case over the area and slapping the shit out of it. - - - Updated - - - I also just made a Firestorm reference in my office, no one got it...

So I found myself near The Pearl today, and this fun little Bert Grimm flash happened, thanks to Tim Pausinger:

NO GUTS NO GLORY Tamara Santibanez does some great stuff.

I just got turned on to David Parker in (of all places) Pflugerville, Texas. Instagram His work is so damn good. I have always hated skin rips, but his make me want one.

Zack's style is so clean and his Japanese work is super solid, too. Dean Denney also works at Anonymous and is amazing as well. Best clipper ships in the industry, imo.

I struggle with wolf tattoos I love them but I am also reminded of those airbrushed wolf t shirts and fleece jackets old people wear

Wow, awesome work!

eBay and Amazon has a bunch of fundoshis listed and of course man thongs ;) I might have to go that route too. Seeing Rubendall in two weeks for more lower thigh and ass work as well.

I don't know a better way to describe it, haha. I think my future is going to be a full Japanese style body suit, so it would definitely be practical. Plus I can put it on and jump out of the bedroom and startle my friends after I get drunk at parties.

@peterpoose it seems like you're half naked on every website I visit. Not complaining, just sayin'

panther cat!

I heard about Daniel Albrigo through Mother Brother liner notes. True story.

@GrayCatLove I'm amazed you'd call something like this reason for leaving a tattooer compared to the fellow in the "Worst Tattoo Customer" thread (or whatever it was called). Trust me, forgetting an aftercare talk is far more forgivable that what that fellow was doing to his customer. There is a glaring difference between the two. And perhaps the tattooer assumed that since the person who started this thread had a smaller tattoo on the wrist, that they'd remember that bit of instructions, especially if it was recent. I've not been given aftercare instructions since my first tattoo, actually. I do have a lot on my arms, and lots from a small group of people, but by that equation I shouldn't have been tattooed by the person who gave me a job scrubbing toilets to earn an apprenticeship more than once. Or any tattooer that I've been back to, for that matter. And while paperwork in my state includes a little walk through about the basic issues one could have, and you fill that out pre-tattoo, i'd imagine one in five hundred reads the release in full, having watched a few thousand copies of that paperwork get filled out.

I could argue that Chris O'Donnell's hannya masks are better. But I have 3 of his on my arm so my opinion is a little biased...

Got this off Chad K at the London convention yeasterday, back of forearm, swollen and sore :D

Take a hot shower and then do nothing.

My first tattoo was the Rocket From The Crypt logo. Many years later, it was filled in and is now my "little red rocket."

my brother: "WTF? Any reason you selected a young native american woman?" me: "Nope, just like it."

Horiyoshi III's suit is so timeless. It looks as good now as it did back then!

I'm at the stage where who am I to judge ? I dont like the thought of disease being spread and unhygenic practices , but those tattoos are punk as fuck . lol .

I think the reason there are so many Phoenix tattoos, is the same reason there are so many eagle, panther and pin up girl tattoos, because they make a good tattoo. I have never been one for getting tattoos with meaning, but in this case it's a good tattoo idea and it holds meaning to you so it seems like a win win situation. Just make sure you get it as big as you can, make it powerful and bold. That guys portfolio that was posted earlier in the thread looks like he would do a good job, some nice work.