klauskosmas

That's great Tim! Words of wisdom! Great advice. It would be an honor to get tattooed by you someday!

That's great Tim! Words of wisdom! Great advice. It would be an honor to get tattooed by you someday!

I started with 'homemade machines' and sharpening my needles on matchbooks. All I knew at the time was single needle and black ink, I was totally clueless to anything else. When I met real tattooers and learned to make real needles I was instantly hooked, there was no turning back. I rarely use single needle these days, I want my tattoos to last as long the person I make them on, but I am very proud to know how to wield a single needle when need be. I believe Chicano style comes purely from where you came from as a tattooer and how you learned. Some try and copy it, some actually do an amazing job at creating it as well, but in my opinion the only people who can tattoo that true Chicano style are the people who lived it.
ps - Ben Grillo tattooed my foot yesterday, he busted out the single needle, ouch.

Tim Hendricks did these.
The head tattoo is my favorite.
Serious skin envy! Hahaha
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Tim Hendricks did these.
The head tattoo is my favorite.
Serious skin envy! Hahaha
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mike brown
this is probably already in another thread somewhere but it's worth it to see pics related to this thread.

I'd like to start a chicano style tattoo threat. The style is a favorite of mine. It also translates well into traditional style tattooing.
I'd like to know which tattooers are highly influenced by this style, as I'd like to get more work done.
Some of my favorite chicano style tattooers are:
Jack Rudy
Freddy Corbin
Eli Quinters
Jason McAfee
Tim Hendricks
Daniel Albrigo
Fernando Lions
Chuco Moreno
UZI
Here are some of my tattoos. Based off of Teen Angels Magazines.
By Eli Quinters.
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Tim Hendricks did these.
The head tattoo is my favorite.
Serious skin envy! Hahaha
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I'd like to start a chicano style tattoo threat. The style is a favorite of mine. It also translates well into traditional style tattooing.
I'd like to know which tattooers are highly influenced by this style, as I'd like to get more work done.
Some of my favorite chicano style tattooers are:
Jack Rudy
Freddy Corbin
Eli Quinters
Jason McAfee
Tim Hendricks
Daniel Albrigo
Fernando Lions
Chuco Moreno
UZI
Here are some of my tattoos. Based off of Teen Angels Magazines.
By Eli Quinters.
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Katja Ramirez at Perfection Tattoo, ATX does some nice fineline:

I'd like to start a chicano style tattoo threat. The style is a favorite of mine. It also translates well into traditional style tattooing.
I'd like to know which tattooers are highly influenced by this style, as I'd like to get more work done.
Some of my favorite chicano style tattooers are:
Jack Rudy
Freddy Corbin
Eli Quinters
Jason McAfee
Tim Hendricks
Daniel Albrigo
Fernando Lions
Chuco Moreno
UZI
Here are some of my tattoos. Based off of Teen Angels Magazines.
By Eli Quinters.
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Tim Hendricks did these.
The head tattoo is my favorite.
Serious skin envy! Hahaha
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I'd like to start a chicano style tattoo threat. The style is a favorite of mine. It also translates well into traditional style tattooing.
I'd like to know which tattooers are highly influenced by this style, as I'd like to get more work done.
Some of my favorite chicano style tattooers are:
Jack Rudy
Freddy Corbin
Eli Quinters
Jason McAfee
Tim Hendricks
Daniel Albrigo
Fernando Lions
Chuco Moreno
UZI
Here are some of my tattoos. Based off of Teen Angels Magazines.
By Eli Quinters.
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Tim Hendricks did these.
The head tattoo is my favorite.
Serious skin envy! Hahaha
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The guy with the tattoo is Bernie Perez. He worked at Inksmith and was a pretty awesome dude. Sadly he passed away a couple years ago. He had some amazing tattoos by some of the top tattooers of our time. He was a troubled soul and hopefully is doing better wherever he may be now.
You're right though, it is one of the best chests I've seen. Shit like that makes me mad that I have titties all getting in the way of a tattoo like that!

baby ray
mr cartoon

All of these were done by my friend Pete Raizis at Inksmith & Rogers

So we've got a lady head thread, how about an entire lady body thread!
Here's one that I've always liked! It's by Mike Wilson. And if you knew the guy in the photo, please know I mean no disrespect by posting this, he was a friend of mine to, and he had and did some awesome tattoos.

I really like the simplicity of the design. The shading is so minimal yet so effective.

I agree! For me the top panther tattooers are:
Mike Wilson
Chad Koeplinger
Steve Boltz
Eli Quinters.
I've seen Oliver Peck do rad Tiger and Lion heads as well!
I prefer a panther head rather than a full body panther.
I bet Bert Krak can do a great panther head but I've never seen any from him. Only wolf heads and skulls mostly.

I agree! For me the top panther tattooers are:
Mike Wilson
Chad Koeplinger
Steve Boltz
Eli Quinters.
I've seen Oliver Peck do rad Tiger and Lion heads as well!
I prefer a panther head rather than a full body panther.
I bet Bert Krak can do a great panther head but I've never seen any from him. Only wolf heads and skulls mostly.

I completely disagree with @ian and think you should stick with the four you already have. How about a new piercing instead?
(drunk typing if anyone's wondering)

The other day I came across this piece by Chad Koeplinger

And it got me thinking...
I´ve seen quite a few tattoos done by respected artists with the swastika symbol incorporated in it. I assume that the majority of the members of this board already know that different variations of this symbol has been present for thousands of years before it was adopted by the nazi party in the 1920`s, but for most people today it is commonly assosiated with some form of white supremacism. Atleast in the Western part of the world.
I´m sure none of the tattoos I just referred to was done with that ideoligy behind it, but almost anyone who sees a tattoo like that will immediately draw that conclusion. It makes me wonder why anyone wants it tattooed at all (even if it is a different variation of it and for completely different reasons).
In the bonus episode of Tattoo Age Freddy Corbin mentioned that not even the Indian people would want the swastika symbol tattooed on them, despite it being represented throughout their religious artwork.
I believe the swastika in the Koeplinger tattoo is the buddhist variation, but please correct me if I`m wrong.
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(I´ve considered back and forth on whether or not to post this thread as I don´t want to offend anyone or start an unhealthy discussion. I´ll leave it up to @dari , @hogg , @steve1461686340 and the other moderators to decide it´s worth a shot.)

So far I have been tattooed by Eli Quinters, Steve Boltz, and Bert Krak. Most of my tattoos are from Eli though. Only Daniel Santoro is left to get tattooed by.
I'll upload pictures as soon as I can. Would like to post a separate thread about it. Thanks!