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Maybe check out some Roxx stuff if you really want some really black tattoos

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.

Agreed with @Hands On here. If you were to think of, say, Japanese sleeves I'd imagine that you would have a lot of options for a coverup. Chrysanthemums and wind bars, for example, could be really nice, and the coverup would be part of a much larger tattoo, it wouldn't draw attention to the coverup in the same way that stand alone roses would.

Horitomo posted a pic of the work in progress on my gut. Check it.
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So I earlier tonight I booked my next tattoo - in March I'm heading down to Austin to have Steve Byrne put an eagle on my chest. In one shot. Because I am an idiot.
Ah, well. As @Graeme said, "If you want tough tattoos you can't be a wimp about it."

Just confirmed that I'll be off to Denmark to get tattooed by Henning Jorgensen in May. Starting a big old Dragon up my leg and on to my ribs.
Can't wait. Yay.

I'd picked up a few pieces of shit when I was 19 then when I was 21 I found a artist in Leeds called Fil Wood really nice guy and I went for a double headed eagle on my chest, which I still love,

It kind of reminds me of trash polka

One from today by Bert Krak at SSTP:

Small burning ? devil by Marc Nava at Da Vinci Tattoo

I know a dude who covered a Nikko Hurtado tattoo with a panther. My friend makes good decisions.

Congrats, Bunny! I imagine finally getting that tattoo after seven years of waiting is a very satisfying feeling.
Greg and I didn't get to two tattoos last night, since we got an unavoidable late start. We did go with the creepy Lo Pan hand holding a dragon that we were joking about the last time I was there. It's pretty much all a result of talking about Big Trouble in Little China with he and his coworker when I was the last one in the shop on my last appointment.

@Wilhell holy shit this is so good, not my type of thing by a long way but for some reason I love it

Tim Lehi oneshot

Thanks @KBeee! I've had a blast working on them. And I dunno, but you're right - smoking reapers are awesome!

Decided to quickly drop my pants in a field
Crow - Bert Krak
Rock of ages - Steve Byrne
Strongman - Stacey Ann
Golliwog - Steve Byrne
Pharoes horses - Steve Byrne
Gorilla - Dan Santoro
Tengu -Steve Byrne
Rose of nomans land - Steve Byrne
Grimm Reaper - Eli Quinters
Not that many right now but until last July I only had two

Help us welcome @Pugilist as our newest Moderator!
She has had a solid presence on LST for the past two years and we look forward to having her on the team!

Last Sunday I had an appointment with Deno. Got this on the back of my left leg. Sorry if the pic is too big.
@CultExciter - Gave him the SOIA dragon and asked him to do his version of it.

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

Two of the tattoos me and my girlfriend picked up at the calgary tattoo show, stolen from Todd Noble and Shaun Toppers Instagram , can't take one of my Noble piece because my arse has gone purple with bruising haha, and it's really hard to take a pic of your own bum

Never posted on this before but here is my barbershop quartet done by Steve Bryne at rock of ages Austin last July, it's not going to win but thought I'd share it with people

Thought I'd posted this earlier but hadn't I got up to use the bathroom earlier and knocked Todd nobles light over and smashed the bulb :(

Two of the tattoos me and my girlfriend picked up at the calgary tattoo show, stolen from Todd Noble and Shaun Toppers Instagram , can't take one of my Noble piece because my arse has gone purple with bruising haha, and it's really hard to take a pic of your own bum

Two of the tattoos me and my girlfriend picked up at the calgary tattoo show, stolen from Todd Noble and Shaun Toppers Instagram , can't take one of my Noble piece because my arse has gone purple with bruising haha, and it's really hard to take a pic of your own bum

Well, we (finally) started - after almost 2 years waiting for him to move and cut down his list a bit.
Start of a full half squidpant. I wasn't going to post it yet - but he did, so I stole this image off of Thomas' instagram: