Oiocha

well, squid pants getting the layers...finished my Five Deadly Venoms themed thigh tattoo collage ! 
My homie Rich Harding (Champion Tattoo Edmonton, AB) whipped in some some smoke-grey shading behind the 2nd layer black widow spider and centipede he did last month.. The spider webbing is layered on top of my 9 year old p-knee tattoos. really tied everything together and am very happy with the results. it is healing great.

 
...and then I had the very exciting, rare and unique opportunity to tattoo myself for the first time. I did the top square inch of red background behind the 5 year old yin-yang auspicious spider. Rich said, you've got all these tattoos budd, you need to fill in at least a small part of your bodysuit on your own.


Quitting my day job...SORRY BOOKS CLOSED UNTIL 2022 haha

Overlapping is not a problem from my side, but let your artist weigh in on it, too. 

I will take note of that place as well @SStu

yearly visit to @ScottSylvia session 1, will add colour later in the month
all tied in w/old snake, so happy, i love it.
Scott's the best!🙂
 

@otisc If you haven't already visited Lazarus Brewery while you were in the area, you might want to make a point of that in April . . . 

November 28 -- 2nd sleeve begins.
Once again, we returned to the studios of world traveling artist Scott Ellis. He's spent most of the last six months hopscotching Europe. I was happy to know ahead of time that he'd be back in Austin Texas for a few week -- plenty of time to start sleeve #2. 
Scott suggested we try a Phoenix for this sleeve. Seemed to fit well with the dragon. Here is his notebook prior to my arriving:

As before, Scott creates the design in freehand. Took him about 3.25 hours. And as before, he was ever the perfectionist -- at one point an hour in wiping off my arm and starting again because he felt the bird's head was an inch off from where he wanted it. 



As we progress, Scott goes through about four layers, increasing the detail with ever more fine brushes along the way.



Below are layer #3 and #4:


Taken in mirror:

And at least, we ink! 2.5 hours of linework. 

Unfortunately, Scott is back off to Europe... so no shading stage until April. That's okay, it is worth the wait to be worked on by a master. 

It is probably his one and only time going with me so we're making it count!  I'm finally more excited about this trip than I am nervous.

Yea! @Oiocha I like your plan...<3

Back to Tomo for Martin Luther King Holiday!  My best friend is coming along this time and we're going to San Francisco while we're in the Bay Area, we're really excited because we booked a reservation with Saison for dinner.  A completely different kind of wild ride, the good kind, for once as I'm only doing four hours a day with Tomo and will have some free time to explore with my friend.

Back to Tomo for Martin Luther King Holiday!  My best friend is coming along this time and we're going to San Francisco while we're in the Bay Area, we're really excited because we booked a reservation with Saison for dinner.  A completely different kind of wild ride, the good kind, for once as I'm only doing four hours a day with Tomo and will have some free time to explore with my friend.

Back to Tomo for Martin Luther King Holiday!  My best friend is coming along this time and we're going to San Francisco while we're in the Bay Area, we're really excited because we booked a reservation with Saison for dinner.  A completely different kind of wild ride, the good kind, for once as I'm only doing four hours a day with Tomo and will have some free time to explore with my friend.

Back to Tomo for Martin Luther King Holiday!  My best friend is coming along this time and we're going to San Francisco while we're in the Bay Area, we're really excited because we booked a reservation with Saison for dinner.  A completely different kind of wild ride, the good kind, for once as I'm only doing four hours a day with Tomo and will have some free time to explore with my friend.

Back to Tomo for Martin Luther King Holiday!  My best friend is coming along this time and we're going to San Francisco while we're in the Bay Area, we're really excited because we booked a reservation with Saison for dinner.  A completely different kind of wild ride, the good kind, for once as I'm only doing four hours a day with Tomo and will have some free time to explore with my friend.

I’m incredibly bruised and tight but here is the progress!

More red!
Green next time!
 

hahaha you're a riot
 
But seriously some of this is definitely true. I get nervous before hand and all the way out to Brooklyn still, but as soon as I enter the shop I'm chill. While getting tattooed I tried to talk as much as humanly possible--that gets me through it. And then yes, totally, that last wipe down is such a relief!
And then it's on to the next month....

You won't forget. You'll never forget it. The thought of it will make you shudder for years to come.  But you'll still go. You'll dread every moment up to the session and despise every moment the needle is on skin. But that dread and despise will be mixed with excitement and stoke. Then, when you're getting that last wipe down of the session and checking it out in the mirror, all the dread will be gone and the stoke will increase exponentially. Enjoy it!
But then healing. 😐

20 month after my first appointment, after 40h in 12 sessions, my back was finally finished a week ago. I'm so happy that I'm done for now but there are already some plans if and what possibly could be my next step towards an even more colorfull body....😋 Not sure if I'll first go for my right butt cheek and upper thights or if I'll start with my arms... But well, that's the future. Won't probably get anything new until end 2019 or even 2020. At least not until I was able to put some money aside to get it done in a foreseeable period of time.

 

Allright, you weren't joking. Had my first two days this wekend;  the back is horrific to work on. And outlining on the back of the thighs... the pain was near indescribable. Made the arse, spine and back part of the ribs pale by comparison.
All of you are utter beasts for doing this purely by machine. I cannot even fathom.
 
😵
Have a few months before my next session, hopefully I'll completely forget about what this weekend was like by then.

progress....
 
 

Monji on Thursday.  Unless I see something in his book that is too good to pass up I'll get a Daruma.
 

Just got this cobra/elephant by Squid Yu on the front of my left leg just under the knee. Pretty stoked.

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I’m incredibly bruised and tight but here is the progress!

tatts on tatts 

First order of business is going to the section that talks all about this and you can probably find it there. In the mean time keep the area clean and dont wait and go to the doctor because the white pimples sound like a Staph infection @elly318