Dumpleton

realism and portrait work = Nate Beavers in Houston
traditional = Steve, Tony & Chad at Rock of Ages in Austin
blackwork = Thomas Hooper at Rock of Ages in Austin
new school and/or biomech = Jeff Ensminger and Nick Baxter in Austin

This is a Video we took of the arm before starting the last Session...
Video before the Last Session...
https://flic.kr/p/pT29Ft
It was a great experience overall...
:)
Photo from Sessions 1 to 3
Dragon Tattoo In Progress with Tony Hu @ Chronic Ink - Toronto Ontario Canada by davidcwong888, on Flickr

Back in the chair with Wt Norbert 22nd January for a bear head on my left knee.......Hell yeah!

Back in the chair with Wt Norbert 22nd January for a bear head on my left knee.......Hell yeah!

Back in the chair with Wt Norbert 22nd January for a bear head on my left knee.......Hell yeah!

We needed a new thread to get back to talking about what matters. I would say this is pretty dang close to "Latest Tattoo Lowdown" so mods, feel free to adjust accordingly. Bubble-berries need not apply.
What is your next planned tattoo? When? And what?
I'll go first (even though most of you all know):
Working on my Fenris-Wolf by Chris O'Donnell. Next appointment is at the end of September.

Welllllllll....if it makes you happy get another one, right?! Went and saw Paul Dobleman at Spider Murphy's last week...please excuse the inflammation


Hope everyone is having a great New Year so far!

When I went for my eagle, Chad K. basically had me look at flash and pick one I liked best, then took it from there. An earlier eagle of his I'd admired was from a Jensen drawing, I later learned by accident - I decided I wanted a rose with my eagle because of that earlier tattoo, though the position's totally different. But it's all based on images that have been around for ages. As an onlooker with limited knowledge, it does seem like eagles have a pretty defined set of positions at this point.
@Graeme's situation sounds quite different. Yikes.
I think @peterpoose might have the most-copied tattoos of anyone here. Like at least 3 that have been redone on other people.

I had my Chad rose morph copied, maybe not line for line, but very substantially, by somebody on here (I'm not going to name names) and it really bummed me out. It wasn't even so much that it was copied--and to be clear here, I'm not talking about the handful of people on here who have gotten rose morphs from Chad or from other tattooers, I'm talking about one specific tattoo--because having tattoos copied is pretty much inevitable in this day and age when so much is available online. What really bummed me out about it is that it was on somebody from here. I don't know the interaction this person had with their tattooer: did they bring in a picture of my tattoo, did they say they wanted that sort of design and the tattooer found a photo of my tattoo? This is the sort of thing that happens all the time and it is what it is, but I guess there are a couple of things that really bother me about it, one being that this forum should be educating people and giving them knowledge so that they aren't doing things like bringing in photos of other tattoos and wanting more or less exact copies of them and that this happened just underlines the fact that a lot of people are here not because they want to learn and get better tattoos, they just want to take from here; that somebody thought it was okay to copy the tattoo of somebody they interacted with. It's not just taking a picture from instagram and handing it to your tattooer. Plenty of you people here have tattoos that I am jealous of because they're so rad and I wish they were on me, but the right thing to do in that case is draw inspiration from that, not straight-up copy it.

Upper inside of the arm tonight. Feels like burning. With Greg Whitehead, as usual! A fun panther-leopard with a Tibetan shell.

Starting to close in on it with this arm. Room for two modest/smallish pieces and then just filler after that. Crazy.

I finally get to give this a shot!
Dana Helmuth, 95% completed at Read Street Tattoo in Baltimore, the rest done in his private studio.

Here's a couple of recent oils. The Rock of Ages is 5" x 7" on birch, the skull is 10" x 12" on canvas board. Both are for sale if anybody is interested.

Been trying to improve, starting with getting a clean line. Also found the 4 colours i like to use and have decided to use only these colours.

I got my first-ever hand-poked tattoo last night from our own @cltattooing:

It's also my first scorpion. Let's be honest: I needed one.

I don't even know why I read these contest threads anymore. All they do is give me ridiculous tattoo envy.

Front of my El Monga leg. Done at Tattoo City in March. Pic is from today (healed).
Entered the back of it a few months ago, figured the front needs to toss its hat in the ring.

Why not...
Horizakura peony/junco from last year:

My arm by Joel Madberg, Salvation Tattoo Stockholm:

few recent ones.

Have not had to much time for painting lately, trying to paint more often.

Got this from Timothy Hoyer last month. Really stoked about getting a tattoo from one of my absolute favorite tattooers.

Got the ladyhead by Max Kuhn yesterday!

Not the best pic. It wraps a bit!

Got this from Greg whitehead in Portland.
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Go to the library! Google sucks for this stuff, but our nearby library has a pretty fantastic collection of art books including lots of Japanese print books, etc. It will be a much more productive use of your time than filtering through all the junk on the internet. I know we all forget that libraries exist these days, but it is the best place to look for reference.

It's not in the same league as some of the beauties in this thread but here's a little black and grey number I did last week.