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Just got this badboy on my shin from Daryl Hart. Super stoked on it!
https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/

Just got this badboy on my shin from Daryl Hart. Super stoked on it!
https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/

Just got this badboy on my shin from Daryl Hart. Super stoked on it!
https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/

Just got this badboy on my shin from Daryl Hart. Super stoked on it!
https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/

Just got this badboy on my shin from Daryl Hart. Super stoked on it!
https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/

Just got this badboy on my shin from Daryl Hart. Super stoked on it!
https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/

Just got this badboy on my shin from Daryl Hart. Super stoked on it!
https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/

2 pieces I finished recently. around 11 x 17 inches for both.

Just got this badboy on my shin from Daryl Hart. Super stoked on it!
https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/

Just got this badboy on my shin from Daryl Hart. Super stoked on it!
https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/

Welcome to Last Sparrow! You've given birth, so I don't think you should worry too much about tattoo pain. We all like to commiserate about it, but if it was really that bad, none of us would have more than one.

I would say that technique aside I'd be really bummed if any of those were on me, but the truth is if you showed me your drawings I'd refuse to be tattooed by you so it's a moot point. @CultExciter offered you excellent advice above. Those people would be a lot better off with some simple Sailor Jerry flash because at least it would be drawn correctly. Trace classic flash. Take up drawing from life to understand how things work and go together. Always use reference. Traditional style should be about taking objects and distilling them down to their essence: look at Scott Sylvia's roses. They're simple but they fully capture the elegance and beauty of a rose. Work hard to draw like that.

Everything is borrowed.
The idea of restricting symbols, art, style, food, music, religion, etc. to the original blood lines of the culture feels more racist than "cultural appropriation".
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I redrew some daggers from a sheet of 1920s flash by an unknown artist that is in Flash From The Past. I had a lot of fun with this.

And here are a couple of other things I've done that I don't think I've put up here. The hannya is from a couple of months ago, the roses I did sometime last year.

lol my 13 yr old dtr taught me how to "screenshot" my DM pic that Sheila Marcello sent me after she did this cool amazing Pharaohs Horses piece - even though I have a few pics of this posted already in the lowdown - please allow me to give you the best of the bunch :)

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By Franz Stefanik, Okey Doke Tattoo, Toronto.

This is my latest one, by Marius Meyer (Photo is also taken by Marius Meyer).
I am super stoked to get it coloured in later on.

Holy hell man, I didn't realize how small that guy was.

I don't know your dog and how the tattoo captures her likeness or not, but I love that tattoo. It has a lot of personality and is folky in the best way.

Just a warning - you may think that you won't get more and bigger tattoos in the future. Yeah, remember that.

Soooo what about the longer, more detailed first part of that great advice then?

An actual tattoo will look different than sharpie on top of the skin, or tracing paper. After a while the tattoo will appear to be part of the skin. Even new, big tattoos have the appearance of being "ontop" on the skin when they are fresh. They will settle with time.
https://instagram.com/livedintattoos/
Flip through this instagram profile of old, healed tattoos. Plenty of them are quite small, but you'd never look at them and think "That's a cool sticker".

Just booked an appointment with Daryl Hart (https://instagram.com/dhart_fbc/) in August to get a panther of no man's land on my shoulder. Stoked!

An actual tattoo will look different than sharpie on top of the skin, or tracing paper. After a while the tattoo will appear to be part of the skin. Even new, big tattoos have the appearance of being "ontop" on the skin when they are fresh. They will settle with time.
https://instagram.com/livedintattoos/
Flip through this instagram profile of old, healed tattoos. Plenty of them are quite small, but you'd never look at them and think "That's a cool sticker".