Hogrider

Sorry, that just hurts. I had a Shepherd who passed 10 years ago and I still start crying if I try to talk about him.

It's just waves and windbars and cherry blossoms. We talked about a bunch of ideas, but there really isn't a whole lot of space and we have so much going on it would probably have been too busy with more images. My back piece is my avatar, I have a tiger and a meditating samurai and koi on one leg and a female samurai riding a tiger along with a snake and skull on the other leg so I was OK with keeping it simple.

I started working on my ass yesterday! Tattoo I mean. I’m working on a body suit and that pasty white ass was really bugging me so I decided to get that tattooed too. I told my artist he could do whatever he wanted, which has always worked out well. My wife said, “ You told him he could do whatever he wanted with your ass?” It’s not as creepy as it sounds.🤔 it didn’t hurt nearly as bad as I thought it would. A little tender around the crack, but not unbearable. He did the outline yesterday, we’re going to color in two sessions, depending on how well I sit.

What is the problem with the placement? You probably have a specific vision in your mind so you can see where it doesn't fit your vision, but for someone with no idea what you are trying to accomplish, they will never notice.

I doubt anyone would notice, If you want Japanese, get Japanese. I think mixing is probably more common than having 100% of your tattoos the same style. I think I'm the exception. I'm about 95% done with a Japanese body suit.

I would continue the Japanese theme. Go to google and put in Japanese dragon tattoo sleeve and you’ll get thousands of images and ideas.

You can't have too many skulls!

You’re fine. No tattoo is as bright 6 weeks later as the day it was done.

I agree with @oboogie. Nothing looks infected. Infected tattoos are generally hot, very painful, extremely red, oozing, or smelly.

Nice!

Even if it hurts, it's a small body part, so it doesn't take a long time to tattoo.

True. Different people react differently. I hear how bad the back is, but I almost fell asleep several times when I had my back done.

Nice. Elbows are no fun. Glad I’ve only got two of them!

That looks really overworked to me. Just give it a couple of months. If will probably heal fine. I don’t think I’d go back though,

Whatever the artist is feeling. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone into my artist expecting we would work on one thing on a big piece and we wind up working on something different. Let the creative process dictate.