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Yikes. Well, if that's what you were going for it, then well done? 🤣

and appreciation of any specific art work is highly subjective. 

well, regarding the "goddess",
there are  many issues IMO , to go into a few, the shading on her face looks like a beard, her nose is not really there, the outline on the lips looks terrible, the lips are not even, the shading that is suppose to maybe be eye brows is different sizes and does not look like eye brows, she looks like a man, the shading under her eyes and on her forehead make no sense, where is the light source coming from ? the outlines around her nostrils ,lips, and eyes are really bad.
sorry, but it's just a poorly done tattoo IMO.
I just felt being honest might help you in your next tattoo.

I believe I'd get that checked out pretty quickly, doesn't look like normal healing that I'd ever seen.  

done - at least for a while - 
 

So I already had an appointment today, which turned out to be a coincidence since my Facebook memory this morning was my very first tattoo - 8 years ago today :).
 
Saw my man Kevin at Mothers in Erlanger KY again today and got this goddess to go with my green man...
 

Hey everyone, here's my most recent tattoo, done last weekend at the Bucharest tattoo convention by the awesome noayanni.
I'm extremely happy with how it turned out and how it ties to my other Ripley tattoo :)
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So I already had an appointment today, which turned out to be a coincidence since my Facebook memory this morning was my very first tattoo - 8 years ago today :).
 
Saw my man Kevin at Mothers in Erlanger KY again today and got this goddess to go with my green man...
 

Hey, overall nice tattoo. There could be a few little issues but in my humble opinion, no one will notice except you. Talk to the artist to get their input. Sadly, blowout happens for a variety of reasons including skin type. I think it looks okay but tattoos are not perfect. 🙂

When I got into tattoos in my late 30's I got a Grateful Dead tattoo in Las Vegas as a way to pay respect to the tattoo I would have gotten if I'd had gotten a tattoo when I was 18. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that you should probably get a really damn great Duran Duran tattoo. 

Hey Kaizu,
Welcome. Here's my two cents and I'm not trying to be a downer, so please take my opinion in the right way. This is way too much. Unless you have someone who KILLS lettering, you won't be happy. Has your artist seem your idea? 
I would invite you to consider going with maybe one or two of those words that mean the most then put the rest of the meaning into an image. Think about why those words resonate with you and how you landed on this idea. 
Cheers!

Haven't been around for a bit...just got this Green Man from Kevin Brandenburg at Mothers Tattoo in Elsmere KY on Friday, this was the "4 seconds after he finished" pic
 

Haven't been around for a bit...just got this Green Man from Kevin Brandenburg at Mothers Tattoo in Elsmere KY on Friday, this was the "4 seconds after he finished" pic
 

Haven't been around for a bit...just got this Green Man from Kevin Brandenburg at Mothers Tattoo in Elsmere KY on Friday, this was the "4 seconds after he finished" pic
 

Haven't been around for a bit...just got this Green Man from Kevin Brandenburg at Mothers Tattoo in Elsmere KY on Friday, this was the "4 seconds after he finished" pic
 

My latest is posted in the War Stories thread as well, but I might as well tell more about it here. I got it this past Saturday. This one was at the request of my kids. I had said I wanted something completely whimsical, so I asked them what they thought I should get. They suggested Perry the Platypus, also known as Agent P, from the Disney show Phineas and Ferb. I am almost as big a fan of the show as they are, so I thought it was an awesome idea. I found that the artist who has done my previous three tattoos is currently taking a break from the business, so went to another loval artist she had recommended - Robyn at Mothers Tattoo in Erlanger KY. I am seriously pleased with the outcome - great experience and she did a great job of capturing the character. She also used a nearly silent tattoo machine, which I found interesting, I didn't know those existed....

The first thing I look for is the quality of the work. I want good lines, good colors, and good shading. After that, I look to see if they're specializing in a style, or if they cover a wide variety. I compare what they have up to they style I'm looking to have done. If they don't have an example that fits the general style I'm looking for, I move on to another artist.
For me, in this day and age, the MOST important factor is to have an online portfolio. I'm busy, and don't have the time to drive from shop to shop looking at physical portfolios, as much as I would enjoy it. When picking an artist, I browse the shop websites, looking for a portfolio that speaks to me. When I find one, I'll visit the shop to take it a step further, and then book an appointment from there. Artists without online portfolios get skipped. I may be missing out on a great tattooer or 4, but I'll never know....

The first thing I look for is the quality of the work. I want good lines, good colors, and good shading. After that, I look to see if they're specializing in a style, or if they cover a wide variety. I compare what they have up to they style I'm looking to have done. If they don't have an example that fits the general style I'm looking for, I move on to another artist.
For me, in this day and age, the MOST important factor is to have an online portfolio. I'm busy, and don't have the time to drive from shop to shop looking at physical portfolios, as much as I would enjoy it. When picking an artist, I browse the shop websites, looking for a portfolio that speaks to me. When I find one, I'll visit the shop to take it a step further, and then book an appointment from there. Artists without online portfolios get skipped. I may be missing out on a great tattooer or 4, but I'll never know....

My most recent is an image from a Black Crowes t-shirt.

My first was last October, at the age of 42, and was a design I'd had in mind for about ten years. I figured if I still wanted it after that long, I should go ahead and get it. It was done by Crow Grando, who was then working at Beelistic Tattoos in Cincinnati. That one has spawned three more in just under a year, and I'm sure more are to come, though I have no designs in mind for the immediate future....

I'm still in the beginning of my tattoo collection, but I've been stigmatized for years, due to the fact that I am a very large man with facial hair and frequently very long hair (I had no hair cuts at all during the 90's) who tends to wear rock t-shirts whenever I'm not at work. So, I know the glares, and the avoidance, and older women fleeing when I approach an ATM.
That having been said, I had a very different and amusing experience this weekend now that I have my Perry the Platypus tattoo. We went to King's Island, an amusement park just north of Cincinnati, and it was warm enough that I was wearing shorts. I overheard several parents pointedly telling their kids to look at my tattoo, and telling them how cool it was. I had a couple of them approach me and ask "Is that a real tattoo of Perry?" and answer with "That's so awesome" when I told them yes.

I need more vacation time and cash before I think about travelling...but the day will come. I've recently seen work by Cecil Porter in California that makes me want to get some from him. Here in the Cincinnati area, I have Kore Flatmo, and I'd love to have work by him at some point too, which would probably happen before I travelled. I'm still new to all of this, so am researching and finding out more about the wide variety of artists and styles out there.
In the meantime, the work I'm getting from Crow at a local shop called Beelistic is keeping me quite happy...

I need more vacation time and cash before I think about travelling...but the day will come. I've recently seen work by Cecil Porter in California that makes me want to get some from him. Here in the Cincinnati area, I have Kore Flatmo, and I'd love to have work by him at some point too, which would probably happen before I travelled. I'm still new to all of this, so am researching and finding out more about the wide variety of artists and styles out there.
In the meantime, the work I'm getting from Crow at a local shop called Beelistic is keeping me quite happy...

Dave's the guitarist for Jane's Addiction - WTF do the Foo Fighters have to do with anything here??

I got my first two done here, I love the look of the shop