Wow that’s really impressive so far. The shading looks very clean.

Awesome tattoo, especially for your first one.

I have a fairly large design planned for the same placement for my first as well.
Keep us updated with pictures after the next session.

Welcome to the forum and nice tattoos!
I really dig the font on the heaven sent piece.

WOW. That is incredible. Definite thumbs up to you and your artist.

Outlaw;50625 wrote:
you could not have any of those designs above unless they were quite large, they would not make for good tattoo material otherwise.
choose your artist well , and personally i would advise yoou go to somebody that does portraits

Yeah I realize that. The links were more of an idea of what type of style I like. Not exactly…[Read more]

Hmm that’s not a bad idea..

The thing thats worrying me is that even scaled down it is a fairly detailed piece. I’m afraid of going to small to appreciate the intracacies. But at the same time something as large as I’m picturing it should be, on my ribcage as a first tattoo seems like a pretty big leap. Definately cool. But a huge commitment.…[Read more]