havetsherre

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. This is as far as we got. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. This is as far as we got. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Beast mode! @havetsherre
Marius work makes me wish i had 2 backs

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. This is as far as we got. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. This is as far as we got. 

Wow - tremendous dragon. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. 

Started my back with Marius Meyer yesterday. This is as far as we got. 

Starting my back with Marius Meyer in a few days. Going to cover up a Polynesian tribal, so this should be interesting.
Wish me luck! 

@scottyg Looks rad man! Lining is pretty awful, feels a bit like being cut in half haha. But as said before earlier in this thread, the stoke will pull you through! How far down are you taking it? To the ass or to the knees?
On Saturday, I just tipped over 20 hours in on my back and very satisfyingly started colour. The black is completely done and it now looks like a proper backpiece. Three and half hours to finish up blocking out the thighs, and a quick sit on some red before calling it quits. Going from the last couple of sessions on soft, squishy areas back to over spine and shoulder blades was quite a shock. Definitely not looking forward to the massive block of colour over the middle of my back.
 

The thread has definitely taken on more and more meaning as progress on my own back has progress. A back piece is definitely an all consuming thing.
 After a bit of a hiatus (life happens ka know) we got back at it with a big shading session. Now to bang out the thighs and we can start getting some colour into this thing. Kind of funnily, some tattooer friends of mine joked that Scott was mad at me because so much black ended up going into the butt ha!
Was pretty sick with a cold this week, but after not working on it for 3 months I wasn't about to cancel my appointment. Potentially a mistake as the session ended with Scott calling it because I was solid up until about 4 hours when I started shaking uncontrollably. I almost passed out on the way home (pounding in the ears, tunnel vision, and all that jazz). First time I've felt totally wrecked after a session. After looking at it everyday after my session in August, I couldn't be more stoked on the amount of progress. I love seeing how this design gets clearer and clearer as black get put around it. 16.5 hours here. 
 

I've had 2 consecutive days with Chris Crooks from White Dragon Tattoo in Belfast. First day he did all the line work (7 hours) and the second day he did background and some shading (6 hours). It was an amazing experience with a phenomenal artist and down to earth great guy. I'm blown away by the quality and speed of his work.
He put a video up on his instagram doing the piece more justice. I will be flying back to Belfast in December for the continuation of this piece.

Hit the back up with another session yesterday, and now I can thankfully say that all of the lining of this piece is done, save for some details while colouring. The rest of the background should fill in quite quickly, given that it took Scott three and a half hours to line my thighs and about twenty minutes to blast the massive wave over my ribs. He used a 15 mag, so probably the least sharp pain so far, although that whole area is feeling a little bruised. 12.5 hours total chair time here. We got another sit later this month. Hit it hard!