9Years

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

'Derm is great and I've had a lot of success with it in the past.
However, since application is an issue, I wouldn't recommend it in this context. I'm 7 sessions deep in my backpiece and haven't had any issues sleeping on the fresh tattoo doing the following:
1) Wash tattoo the before bed after the appt. 
2) Re-wrap using saran wrap and medical tape
3) Wear a loose T-shirt overtop
4) Carefully remove in the morning (soak T-shirt in shower and remove there if your wrap-job didn't hold up and some of the tattoo is sticking to the shirt). 
5) Wash tattoo and go about your day
After the first night I haven't had much issue with a lot of plasma weeping. Sleeping was pretty "normal" after that. Not saying it's "pillow-soft-comfortable", but it's about as normal as can be the first few days post tattoo. Also, with my backpiece the sessions are almost always more heavily biased to one side of my body than the other, so I've gotten away with sleeping on my less tattooed side, pretty comfortably. 
Good luck!

I'm not great with photos but here are a few progress pictures from this last month with Lehi.

Made another Oslo trip last week to start a cover up on my lower stomach. While i was there i picked up a namakubi from Nicholas at Blue Arms.

The cover up is ongoing and i don't mind admitting i'm very apprehensive about the next session! This was not a fun tattoo to get although Marius did his best to keep my spirits up and a visit from LST's own Mr @Iwar definitely kept me distracted from the significant pain!
 

Got this kitsune from Matt Arriola yesterday.

'Derm is great and I've had a lot of success with it in the past.
However, since application is an issue, I wouldn't recommend it in this context. I'm 7 sessions deep in my backpiece and haven't had any issues sleeping on the fresh tattoo doing the following:
1) Wash tattoo the before bed after the appt. 
2) Re-wrap using saran wrap and medical tape
3) Wear a loose T-shirt overtop
4) Carefully remove in the morning (soak T-shirt in shower and remove there if your wrap-job didn't hold up and some of the tattoo is sticking to the shirt). 
5) Wash tattoo and go about your day
After the first night I haven't had much issue with a lot of plasma weeping. Sleeping was pretty "normal" after that. Not saying it's "pillow-soft-comfortable", but it's about as normal as can be the first few days post tattoo. Also, with my backpiece the sessions are almost always more heavily biased to one side of my body than the other, so I've gotten away with sleeping on my less tattooed side, pretty comfortably. 
Good luck!

@Kracov
I know that:
"Man mildly inconvenienced due to voluntary, likely to be ostracizing, cosmetic choice" isn't as fun a headline but come on...
This is not a civil rights instance. Or at least it shouldn't be. Equating this circumstance to the terrible divisions and hate people faced (and still do in many parts of the world) is "embarrassing". Lumping things like this in with legitimate cases of discrimination trivializes the injustices those people are facing. 
And, since you side-stepped it in your other response: Who's rights are being violated if you are required by law to provide a service or labor for someone against your will because of a cosmetic life choice they made? Do others have a right to your labor simply because they ask? 
Rights have to go both ways if they are rights. 
 

that's cool,thanks for rescuing,and that blend is a dog that's super smart !  we have a mini aussie and we call it "scary smart". 

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

Thanks, he's a total nut...the humane society where we got him thinks he's blue heeler and border collie mix, so his tendency to be an obsessive-maniac isn't pictured here 

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

1) Paul Dolbleman, Spider Murphy's 2013, Dietzel design. 
2) Herb Auerbach, California Electric 2013.
Both photos taken today. My hound wanted to be in the pic. 
 

 

...18 hrs ?

@exume
Oh man! Saw that on the 'gram...soooooooo cool! I've gotta ask; how did you guys arrive at this design? What was the magic phrase that unlocked this???

@exume Terrifically envious of that. Walt is an amazingly unusual tattooer. Also, you look like you may look just like my older cousin, who happens to live in Denver. At least in the red beard, glasses respect. I have a moustache that I hate to say, may have to be posted in all its glory soon. Good luck with the shading.
 
I made an initial contact with Ben Cheese at Everlasting. I am getting a Chinese tiger v. blue wolf Battle Royale. Super excited to get started with the most important tattoo I've yet. 

3.5 hours put in today by Tim and I. We covered a  lot of ground, outlining my entire arm. the ditch of my arm wasn't awesome. Unfortunately for me theres an oni head right there so its going to seeing a lot more abuse.
The atmosphere at atlas is rad, theres absolutely zero ego floating around. Everyones interested in what their peers are doing. Stoked to head back next week.

Got my first leg tattoo by Victor J Webster @ East River Tattoo in NYC yesterday. It's his interpretation of the Bakunawa, the Philippine mythical dragon which devours the moon and causes lunar eclipses. 

By Marie Sena.

Just dropped by Atlas to see the rendering Tim drew up. The 3rd can't come soon enough.

@9Years @suburbanxcore. 
 
I knew I wanted either a Rock of ages or like that Ed hardy drawing of the tattooed tiger, we talked about combining the two into something wild and this is what came out of the walttron4000s brain.  A little bit different than what we planned initially but I'm so stoked on it so far.