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A few more hours put in on my back piece. Also did last night background from under the pits on both side to mid rib cage. All work being done by Rodrigo Melo from Northstar Tattoo NYC. Super stoked at the progress. Mike

When I step into another person's house, I wipe my feet as to not track mud around. Or, if it is their house-rule to remove their shoes, I will gladly leave them at the door. This is done out of respect. Even if you don't think it makes sense, a person should observe the customs of the house, or risk looking like a mannerless boob and possibly get kicked out.

Jeff Gogue just posted the Back Piece hes been getting from Shige over the past 3 years on facebook....Wow!!

Thanks for asking! It's on Jesse Tseronis from Winchester's facebook page.

New Grimm heart, done by Ben Rorke. It's only a week old, so it's still really bright - to me, it kind of looks out of place by itself. I guess I'm going to have to fill up the space around it. What a shame.

This isn't super related to the thread, but kinda. Anyways, a few days ago I noticed a pretty nice looking rose tattoo peaking out of the shirt sleeve of the professor who I'm a TA for, and I asked him about it, something like "Hey I saw you had a tattoo on your bicep earlier, I didn't realize you had any it looks pretty nice." And he tells me that he has that one and another one, a panther on his other arm. So I knew he lived in San Francisco for a while, so naturally being the tattoo nerd I am, I ask him where he got it. Apparently, in the late 90s he just happened to walk into Ed Hardy's Tattoo City and ended up getting a crawling panther from Tim Lehi when he was working there. He said at the time he had no idea who Ed Hardy was or anything. He was also pretty surprised when I started nerding out about how big of a deal Tim Lehi and all those dudes who were at Tattoo City at the time are now (Dan Higgs, Tim Lehi, Jef Whitehead, etc). Anyways, the tattoo is pretty rad and it blows my mind that there are so many people out there who just stumble into getting amazing tattoos with no idea that the artist might be one of the most well known and respected in the world, meanwhile, I (and probably lots of others on this forum) spend hours and hours and hours looking up artists in different cities, traveling 10+ hours in a single day (some of you are flying halfway across the world) just to get tattooed by these very same artists.

Tiger kneecap by Destroy Troy. Timeless Tattoo Kansas City, MO This was done earlier this summer. Awesome dude. I cannot wait to get some more work done by him. If you look closely there's a scratch on the bottom right, that happen a week before the tattoo and was not done during the session. Split in to two 2 hour sessions, with a short touch up afterwards. This was taken directly after the second session, I just can't seem to get a better picture than this. I highly suggest getting a tattoo from Troy if you're ever in the KCMO area.

Get an invisible tattoo , as long as the artist gets paid, so he can buy more resources to make proper tattoos with skulls n stuff for people who want tattoos .

got this classic filler from chuck donoghue as a final souvenir from a us-road trip. across the sea i got tattooed by him an stuart cripwell (posted a genie lamp a couple of weeks ago).both experiences and environments were different...but both in a more than positive way!

Hey everyone, haven't posted much lately but finally have a reason to. Despite the new baby, found some time for a new tattoo. Artist Ryan Gagne, Classic Tattoo, Red Deer, AB. Thanks for checking it out.

This one was done by Dave Cummings in seven sessions over two months. So yeah, it need not take years. I don't think I have the ability to be tattooed that much in that short a time period though.

My wife and I will be in and out of the convention all weekend. We would be down to meet up whenever. Unfortunately, we will not be getting tattooed. My wife had an appointment with @Valerie Vargas but had to cancel because she is pregnant. (A very positive thing coupled with a bit of disappoint in not being able to get tattooed.) Anyways, I look forward to meeting everyone.

Yes, let's try to meet at the convention. I'd be more than happy to since I'll be missing the pre-party. I'll probably dive into the city Friday to see some old friends at some point, but I'm staying at the Hyatt all weekend. Horrible description, but I'll be an Asian guy with long hair, glasses, black & grey Japanese sleeves, probably wearing black or some shade of grey, trying to be discreet about staring at everyone's tattoos but too shy to approach you and ask ;-) Anyway if you see me before the meet, just come up and say Hi!

we've said it before, and we'll say it again... If you don't belong, don't be long.

I'm down! I'll be at the convention from opening Friday, feeling very shy and possibly overwhelmed/overstimulated/euphoric from the sea of tattoos parading before me (I really like looking at tattoos! I know ALL of you feel me on this!) . Getting tattooed literally all day on Saturday...is it polite to say "come say hi to me here!"? 'here' being the tattoo booth or whatever. @Lance I will also be rocking the black/grey awkward look. :)

you know, tattooers are evil and elitist for not wanting to share their trade with everyone! but most evil of course.

hello and welcome to the amazing LST forum! my advice, which is nothing really...but I wouldn't put any kind of cloth on a fresh tattoo. ask your tattooer. he/she/it will know. and uuhhm yeah, hope you'll find LST as useful as me and many others have!

Yeah, fuck all you sociopathic corporate tattooers. ... What?

you're giving away all the secrets bro

No welcome from me until we see that back. Oh, fuck it. Velkomen!

About time Kai! Nice to see you on here. Now stop fingering your ass, and post your incredible backpiece!!! ;)

Eh. I have dragon heads on both knees and a dragon on my left forearm. I have a snake on my elbow/right forearm, a massive snake on my back, and a snake (with a hot stuff head) on my shin. Four girl heads so far, three spiders, four birds, three skulls, four hearts, and countless flowers. I'm probably missing a few in the previous counts, but you see what I'm getting at. There will be nothing remotely bummer about a huge tiger from Bryan Burk. Nothing.

getting tattooed by bryan burk first thing friday. im gonna have to rush because my flights in at like 415. and im staying down the street at crowne. the promo for hyatt sold out before i had the chance. im stupid and procrastinated. gonna walk up hopefully with someone saturday.

no spam posted this in another thread.. gypsy head by Dru Bias at Saints and Sinners. Overall happy with the piece just having a tough time trying to decide what to put around it. Bugging me having a floating head haha.

Just went into town and got these two from Ben Fraser of Good Luck Tattoo (melbourne), the dudes a cool cat and the shop is nice aswell, the walls are dominated by awesome Steve Bolts and Scott Sylvia flash. - - - Updated - - - sorry for sideways flick

But, I thought it was for me?

But it's for me!!!!!!

Matching tattoo pigment to skin tone so the tattoo isn't noticeable? Some people shouldn't get tattooed. That shit is retarded.

Got a little impromptu tattoo yesterday! Had been talking with Carlos Diaz down at Tattoo Charlie's Place in Baltimore about a tattoo idea we had had......and he drew something up for me so I went down and got it! LMFAO.......

Looks like it starts at 5pm and runs till 11pm on Friday. Bummer for me, since I'll have to run for the BART by 6 or 7 to see previous said friends in SF. Hmmm, friends vs. tattoo convention. Decisions, decisions... It runs 11am-11pm Saturday and 11am-6pm Sunday.

My name is Mikal and I tattoo at New Rose Tattoo in Portland Oregon. I was drawn to this site to see the Scott Sylvia interview ( he did my sleeve about 11 years ago) and thought I would join and see what it's all about. Keep in touch with the tattoo community. Nice to "meet" y'all

I always make a poor man's transfer. I take the back of my line drawing and rub lots of graphite down onto it. Then I tape it down onto the watercolor paper (graphite side down) and go over my line drawing again. When you take off the line drawing, you have a light transfer.

well, if they didn't make it into a tattoo, why would we be interested here? :p

Hi! Im Geggi from the west coast of Norway. I have been spying on this forum for a while, mostly looking at the contest page and drooling over all the amazing tattoos everybody is getting. Been collecting some stuff from Marius Meyer and other Oslo based tattooers, so hopefully I`ll get the fingers out my ass and start posting stuff myself. Pleasure hanging out! Thnx to @Willhell and @Iwar for recommending this forum.

Cromags / Prince now thats an lp I want to hear

wow!!!!! the future scares me......

I got this in aug of this year,I like this style a lot. I got this from Jess Yen,until I got to the show,I did'nt even know what it was going to look like,I told him to do what he wanted. there are also a lot of other styles of tiger tattoos that I like as well though. I am very happy with this one. . .

Got this a few days ago from Jason Reeder at Little Vinnie's in Finksburg, MD. Going to hopefully get it colored at the end of the month. Not the greatest pic because 1) it's hard to get a picture of your own leg, and 2) it's getting into the peely/scabby stage and not looking its best at the moment. But you get the idea. It wraps onto my shin a little because we both wanted to expand the theme in the future and wanted to leave lots of calf space open. Thinking about turning this into a leg sleeve for nocturnal/crepuscular plants and animals.:p

I think part of the appeal of a back piece is the required patience, discipline, and sacrifice.

Got this Panther head by Fergus Simms a couple of days ago and had the Flaming torch by Johan Ingemar done about a month ago , I also took these photos of my current progress ,still got a while to go

I have not been tattooed since SFO last year and I thought this yr would be a no go but got some funds and wife nodded so a solo trip for me is looking good

Hella drinking with friends. You know your tattooed when you can pull your pants down in front of strangers and it's ok because you are showing your tattoos.

a buddy of mine came up for the afternoon one day so we were trying to throw something together real quick and he and his family were throwing out ideas and we can up with a cholo hot dog throwing a thumbs up and a mustard bottle in the other hand with some script that said "eat me". he son told me to add "a weiner" on it...which we did and then erased. it's pretty rad, but he baile don the idea but i still have the drawing waiting...

When I got my Leg done about a month ago, the dude I was getting tattooed by had drawn up a picture of The Dude (Big Lebowski) as a zombie, throwing up devil horns, smoking a joint, and the script read "The Dude Abides..." Kinda cliche for the script, but the drawing was insane. Wish I had of gotten a picture of that.