As for the placement, if I put it on my inner bicep should I “flip” the image so that when I stretch my arms out, Bebop would be facing right side up? Or place it like my other two? I feel like if I do it like the other two in that particular spot it’ll be hard to see/tell what it is.

@buttwheat 135764 wrote:

I was thinking it was to dark hiding the contrast. I was thinking maybe he tattooed it that way so it would look better healed .

Been a couple months. There it is healed. I actually liked it WAY more fresh with all the black as opposed to now with all the light grey. 🙁

What do you guys think?

@buttwheat 118100 wrote:

To the OP this is done very poorly. Do not go back to the same tattooist no matter if it is free. Find a much better tattooist and have them fix it.

Just wanted to update this story. I ended up going back to the same shop to get it redone (by a different guy). The guy who did it was no longer working there and apparently a lot of people he did tattoos on were coming back for touch ups because he doesn’t put the ink in deep enough. It’s still not a good tattoo, but it’s certainly an improvement (at least IMO) and I can live with it. He did some shading on the neck to hide the green spot, and put some on the tail too so it wasn’t obvious he just did it in that one spot to hide an error. The pupils in the eyes are the same size now. The coloring in the shirt isn’t super splotchy, and the lines look cleaner to me now.

Like I said, I know it’s not a good tattoo so please don’t rip me a new asshole telling me how bad it sucks. Just wondering of you guys think it looks better than pictured above?

@buttwheat 123822 wrote:

Yes I meany fast not fat butt Iker is plenty fat..

I would go with Bob Tyrell but since that isn’t likely I would go with which of the two artist that feel more pumped to do that tattoo for you. I would much rather go to someone that really wants to do my tattoo then someone who is just making a buck off of it.

I can’t really tell who is more pumped to do it since I haven’t met either of them personally. Just talked to Pete on Facebook, and Steve I haven’t even spoke to, just Brittany who answers emails for B13. How do I find out which is more excited to do it? Also, just based on everything you’ve seen from both artists, who do you think would do a better job, Butt?

@buttwheat 123804 wrote:

I’m glad you have followed the advice of seeking out the better artists.
Every artist works at different speeds but I would say on average it would be about 5 hours. Bob Tyrell would take about 10 hours to do it compared to someone fat like Iker Ruiz that it would be about 2 hours.

Why would the artists weight affect the tattooing time?

Bump……

1000? That’s outrageous.

Is he actually working there full time or a guest artist that will only be there a few weeks? I looked at his work it’s really good. He did a Frankenstein but I don’t like it…I cant tell if he used a different photo to do a portrait of or if it’s just his spin on the image I want.

Butt, go look and see if you think he did a portrait of a different image or what.