DevilMan

I have a surgical scar from a shoulder injury (from a crash with a roadbike).

This is a picture the day after surgery

The scar didn't heal very nicely (as you can probably imagine from that picture ;-) )

And this picture a couple of minutes ago, you can still see a part of the scar without ink, and you can see the covered part.

I also have some road rash on my elbowd, which is now covered by my sleeves.

Ladies and Gentleman, we've got (some) color :cool:

Tonight we managed to do a 3.5 hour session of mostly greens and red.

Unfortunatly we can't continue until the end of may... A six week break after 3 months of bi-weekly sessions... how am I going to survive that?! :p

And here's my progress picture of today. It doesn't seem like much has happened, but my ass thinks otherwise :) Today the shading on my leg was finished, the black 'diamonds' in the clothes, and that large patch of black on my ass :)

Next time (in two weeks) we are going to start with some color :cool:

And here we are again :)

Today/tonight was the 4th session, this time 3 hours, I could have gone longer but my artist needed to pick up a guest artist from the airport.

Anyway we still made good progress, my other side is now completely shaded as is my right left. Next session we are going to do the rest of the shading on my left leg, and on my ass (ouch! : ) ) and put some black in the clothing, and then we're done with the black and its onto color!

What's there to explain? Just show her the pictures, that's all it takes ;-)

(Btw, my next session is this thursday, so expect new picture(s) :)

Like I said earlier, its just normal wound fluids, there will be some ink in it, but nothing to worry about.

The saran wrap i take off the next morning also have 'black' fluid in it, and when we start with color the fluid will also have some color probably..

Even a day later i have some small black stains in my bed sheets, even though the tattoo was dry during the day.

Again, don't worry, the tattoo looks fine.

Looks normal to me, just regular wound fluids. I normally put on saran wrap for the first night and the wrap is usually pretty soaked in the morning.

Don't worry, just give it a wash a couple of times a day and leave it alone as much as possible, you'll be fine :)

Well, we didn't manage to make it 5 hours, I gave up after 3.5 hours :)

But we did cover a lot of skin in those three and half hours, so I think we did OK :)

Next session in two weeks... can't wait ;-)

Great looking snake man!

I've got another appointment in 1.5 hours.. hopefully we can do a 5 hour shading session :)

Yeah, I already have a couple of appointments booked at a two week interval.

At first I was planning to go slow on my backpiece (because of the cost :) ) and had planned to finish it somewhere next year, but then I heard my tattooer is planning on moving back to Argentina or possibly moving to Spain so that plan changed rather quickly :-)

Yesterday afternoon/evening we did another session, this time just 3 hours. We did the outline of botan, so the outlining is now finished (thank god!), and we started on some shading.

Next session is in 2 weeks, we hope to do a five hour shading session then ;-)

Don't forget my favorite Kuniyoshi : Kadzusa no Suke Hirotsune battling with the nine-tailed fox on Nasu Moor

(which is going on my back ;-) )

I also have this book, and I think its great.

It has a LOT of very good/big pictures, and all of the interviews/stories are very interesting, but the stories get a little repetitive as they all seem to have gone through the same process, but that it to be expected i guess.

Well today i had my first session. On my back. And after 6 hours i was woord out. I was shakey And couldnt hold my pain anymore ( normally I can sit up till 10 hours at the time) so we called it a day. We did most outlines but next time we do the last couple of bits. And do the shading part. I underestimate how much pain and work this was going to be. And to be honest I feel like a pussy for tapping out. I feel really bad right now.

I had the same yesterday, we had to take a brake a couple of times because i couldn't stop shaking, and today i'm sore all over, every muscle in my upper body feels like a had a fitness session yesterday :)

I also posted this in the backpiece thread, but i'm soo stoked i just had to put it in here too :-)

Well, Since today I am an official member of the Back piece squad :)

We had a (pretty brutal) 5+ hour start of my backpiece, we managed to finish all the lining (except for the big flower that need to go on my upper legs).

Next session will be for lining the flowers and the rest of the leg part, and to start shading... I can't wait ;-)

Well, Since today I am an official member of the Back piece squad :)

We had a (pretty brutal) 5+ hour start of my backpiece, we managed to finish all the lining (except for the big flowers that need to go on my upper legs).

Next session will be for lining the flowers and the rest of the leg part, and to start shading... I can't wait ;-)

I'm in the same boat as you, only my appointment is in 1.5 hours :-)

I'm gonna wear some sweatpants that can be easily pulled down,and i'm going to take a vest or something that i can put on on the front so my chest and arms stay warm if i'm freezing :-)

That's going to be so good. I love samurai/warrior tattoos and the interplay of all the patterns in the tattoo. You must be super stoked!

I am man! :) I'm dying to see what he will come's up with design wise. It is going to be a full back piece going down onto my upper legs so we've got a long way to go :)

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Yeah I love samurai as well. @DevilMan That's an awesome design too. I'm jealous man. I'm looking forward to seeing the progress on that beast! Who's got the pleasure doing that on you may I ask?

My back will be done by Bonel (Instagram) of Corazon Santo in The Netherlands, he also did both my sleeves.

Yeah for sure,

But I wonder why that design hasn't been used a lot more. I know of only one tattoo (currently still in progress as a front piece i think).

I think the top right and bottom left would both look awesome as a back piece.

I had a talk at the shop today and we decided on doing the Kitsune (top right) :-)

I've got thursday next week booked to start on my backpiece, to get rid of that white 'spot' between my two sleeves ;-)

But.... I'm having a hard time deciding on what (kuniyoshi) warrior design to go with, I know you can't really go wrong with a Kuniyoshi design, but thats what making it hard to decide, they are all sooo good ;-)

I'm kinda leaning towards one of the top pictures, but maybe I should just go with a big ass full back tiger and be done with it :cool:

I don't knowwwwwwww..

To me the best lady heads (and the occasional mans head) are made by Guen Douglas:

Slightly different topic, can anyone give the accurate name's for the different suits depicted here -

A little late reply, but i just found some more bodysuit information on Horimatsu's website

My wife's Phoenix backpiece was finished today at a convention, she (and I) are real happy with it (well, after it's healed ;-) )

Backpiece was made by Bonel of Corazon Santo here in The Netherlands, which did my two sleeves, and is probably starting my own backpiece in februari :cool:

Hiya,

Today I found the website (and mobile) apps of Tattoo App-Tattoo World App For Android, iPhone and Windows Phone.

It's a 'database' of all tattooshops, piercingshops, conventions etc worldwide, with location and information about the shop, ratings, reviews etc.

It's seems there aren't a whole lot of shops active yet (at least in my part of the world), but it looks interesting.

Anybody else seen it/used it yet?