SStu

welcome!

cameltoe!

welcome!

Welcome, and you don't need to sell the idea of removal to us. check out the forum - we have a whole section devoted to it already.

Welcome. You'll find lots of visual inspiration hanging around here.

I was hoping for bearded tattooed women when I saw this.

Hubba Hubba. Now we're talkin'!

Welcome!

Any animal holding another different animal.

How far away is Ft. Wayne?

nice, clean work, though. Welcome!

Not exactly tattoo oriented, but the 1st piece of artwork I've accomplished in about 25 years . . .

Any thoughts on the one above?

Honestly?

Hey, welcome. That split bug / bee(?) tattoo is really cool.

ditto (again).

A tiger, maybe fighting a snake, maybe not, from Dave Cummings at PSC Tattoo. We're scheduled to start at the end of July, maybe earlier if he has cancellations.

I vote snake.

agreed

ditto

welcome, and ditto.

welcome!

welcome!

lets pretend i still look like this...

uh-huh.

Forgive my ignorance. I just go my 1st tattoo a month ago and I am trying to learn the correct terminology and style differences so I can be respectful of the art.

What's the difference between tribal, blackwork and dotwork tattoos ? If a tattoo has geometric symbols or designs like a doily or mandala does that automatically fall into a specific style ? What if the tattoo is solid no dots or has some color or has a mixture ?

In my mind, blackwork is more of a generic name for all the categories of (mostly) non or minimal grey included styles, kind of like the way "traditional" has several sub-styles. Hell, there are several categories of tribal.

I'm visiting my parents right now and my mom found a sketchbook I had as a little kid. I must have been six or seven when I was drawing in it, and I was totally stoked to find that even as a little boy I was drawing skeletons, demons, and upside down crosses. I have no idea where this stuff comes from, but at least I come by it honestly.

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You should totally get that skeleton (in the grave?) reproduced as a tattoo on you.

I like it when it's done in conjunction with and contrast to normal outline in the same tattoo. I think Dusty Neil uses that technique.

That's really gonna depend on your artist and what you want the end result to be.

You've definitely got a variety of fading going on there. Some of it's ready for anything and other parts are still fairly dark.

Don't forget that you'll likely get continued lightening even 4-5 months after your last session. My artists says that he's had new ink fade on him in places that had been lazered inside of that time frame.