speaking from my personal experiences here, I mainly stopped posting because the majority of this forum is full of thin skinned people who don’t like to hear the honest truth about their shitty tattoos. I still hang around with the hopes of a rare sighting of some decent work, but most of the time it’s people either blowing smoke up each others asses about their subpar work that their “homeboy” did or the people with legitimately good work getting borderline banned for speaking the truth.

is that the jaeger deer on your left shoulder? awesome.

Do you have any tattoos yet? Sleeves are a big commitment, that stretches further than simply time and money. If you want the most fluid way to start a sleeve go talk to an artist, (with a better idea than what you had just shared), give him some creative freedom to run with your idea. After he gives you a drawing and you approve it, then you can knock out an outline in one session, and then slowly shade/color the rest of the sleeve over time. Every artist works at different paces and some are busier than others.

There are way too many factors for anyone here to give you a clear cut answer on how long or how expensive a sleeve is. Expect anywhere from 30-70+ hours depending on the reference material. The thing that you must understand is the fact that this is not an over night process. Sleeves can take months or years to complete. Take your time and make sure you get something quality; because it will be visible for the whole world for the rest of your life. Good luck bro.

I think when you move to the neck and the hands, you are classified in a league of your own. I know artists that refuse to get their necks and hands done. I’m in the food industry and have never had any problems with getting hired because of my tattoos. There are definitely a lot of blue collar jobs that you can thrive in with visible tattoos, and some white collar places are getting more laid back too. I think it also depends on where your located, the middle of the country for instance seems to be a little behind.

All in all, a neck tattoo is no different than any other tattoo; it either looks aesthetically pleasing or like shit. The fact that it’s so close to your face just means, it better be well done because everyone can see it.

it’s your body, get covered by as many artists as you want. And one sleeve is far from being “heavily tattooed”.