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my favorite is on this chick here in town that reads: BEAT KIDS. pretty funny. Mine say open eyes.

i thought it was pretty good. i never got to read the comics though so my opinion is strictly tv based. I am pretty pumped to see what happens next.

i think a picture is needed for this...

i will get a picture of the drawing today and post iup.

a buddy of mine came up for the afternoon one day so we were trying to throw something together real quick and he and his family were throwing out ideas and we can up with a cholo hot dog throwing a thumbs up and a mustard bottle in the other hand with some script that said "eat me". he son told me to add "a weiner" on it...which we did and then erased. it's pretty rad, but he baile don the idea but i still have the drawing waiting...

i'd say my chest was the worst spot for me so far....my thigh would be a close second because my leg kept falling asleep and that was one of the most awkward/painful feelings

hi! i have to agree, your work is amazing.

hahahah. wow that is brilliant

Ms Rad- try these guys out for wax. they sell a set of wax and mustache brush. i bought it. it was used when that pic above was taken. good stuff. http://www.oregonwildhair.com/ unfortunately i get lazy and don't wax it up alot...maybe once every couple months...too much trouble. anyways...

If i would throw in my 2 cents would be that obviously flash sheets are meant to be "copyright free" so to speak. I mean since alot of sets could come with line copies and what not...which has always left me to assume that sketchbooks have the similar purpose...or more of a..."here's what my ideas look like before i use them", which i would think more for getting ideas or incorporating the way someone would do badass wings or something and tweak to make your own. i think seeing a piece that someone did that you saw in a magazine is straight biting someone's work. most likely the piece used in the photo was original enough to be put in there in the first place.

there is some shop that has tried to add me on facebook a couple times that i keep ignoring because in their photos, the only stuff i see is poorly done versions of pieces i have seen on the "real" tattooers pages...and i can't back that shit at all. if you have the balls to straight rip off someone you better make it better than the original!

i grew my first beard in 1996 (as soon as i could). Before that there were a couple incarnations, chops, un beard... I have only shaved completely 3 times since then. my beard and i are best friends and have been for a long time. i will never go back to a non bearded face. older photo but whatevs. and traveling with beards is hard to relate since i travel with tattoos so i can't tell if i am any more offensive to the common public than w/o the beard. probably not.

awesome thank you :)

You are on my list of new things to try.

what he said!

Ms Rad- I did.

Everyone else- thanks for the kind words and encouragement! Pictures are in the pictures page!

my sylvia liner has never failed me. bought other machines, but always come back to it.

Hey everybody

My name is Brian. I have been tattooing for a little more than 5 years at American Classic Tattoo in Athens, GA. I try to learn something new everyday when it comes to this industry, and i am blown away by how many amazing artists there are these days. I am sure it has always been this way but now that the internet is on full throttle, i guess it is just easier to get exposed to all the awesomeness. I am humbled to be hanging out on this site with some major names, and i hope to not look like a total dipshit! anyways, wassup!

hahahah. amen to that julio! do you guys do white tattoos? what about blacklight/glow in the dark tattoos? answers: no. and, well do you want cancer?

no they are not that popular...yet. haha we have done 11 of them so far there are a few in the works...all of them have gone on friends, but don't think we don't try to sell them when people "want a tattoo but i don't know what i want". they are fun and they honestly help break the ice with alot of customers.

This is my funniest one. We were sitting around the shop one day talking about the movie johnny dangerously and i drew this little guy up. By the end of the week everyone who worked with us had their own version of it and it has turned into a local joke and we now sell them for $40 bucks if you're "ballsy" enough to get one...