Welcome to the forum! I like that design too. Talk to a good artist, they’ll surely come up with some ideas for embellishing it a bit. To me, doing black and grey with that would be the right way to go!

Welcome to the forum! Sorry I can’t help much on the cover-up, since I’m a lousy artist, but there must be something cool you could do there. I agree with the suggestion of maybe a laser treatment to lighten it up a bit first. How about a cobra snake or something similar that would wrap around the area?

Hey I’ve been married for 35 years and I…[Read more]

Well some basic sites for ideas might be:

http://www.targettattoo.com

http://www.bullseyetattoos.com/

http://tattoojohnny.com/

http://tattooflash.info/

I’m into pinup designs so a lot of time I’ll just go to Google Images and search on something that appeals to me. Otherwise I look through pinups in places like…[Read more]

LOL, yeah I agree, I don’t come here to see that crap. Glad to see the forum moderators staying on top of it…thanks to them!! 🙂

I read them when I go into my artist’s shop and I’m waiting for him to work on me. Other than that, I don’t buy them at the news stand. Personally, I’d rather search the web and spend lots of time looking at pictures and art to get some ideas. At least it’s free that way!! 😀

Hey good luck with your design, and post some pics of it when you have it done!

I like it too….great line work BTW! 🙂

Well I’m not an artist, but the guy who does my work is a good one. Thanks for the friend add though, you can never have too many friends!! 😀

I’m no tattoo artist, so I go with what my artist says, and that is you can tattoo over things like scars from injuries, vaccinations (and I’m guessing stretch marks too), but there is a chance that things may not look quite right. The ink may not react with the skin texture the same way and you may end up with part of the tattoo that looks…[Read more]

Unfortunately, it ends up giving good artists and tattooing in general a bad reputation with the uneducated public. And it just reinforces the saying that “you get what you pay for.” I’ve had people look at mine and wonder how I can spend hundreds of dollars on a certain tattoo. They’ll usually say something like, “I’ve got this small tattoo…[Read more]

Welcome to the forum, and congrats on the upcoming marriage. May you travel a happy road and have as good a relationship as I have (35 years)!! 😀

Dang, you’re going to make me do an extra 30 minute workout each day to burn off the excess calories! Sounds good though. 😀

Welcome to the group Dala…post some pics here too if you get a chance! 🙂

Welcome aboard! 🙂

Nice pics Lady B…thanks for posting them! I’ve never gone to an Expo where it was strictly a contest, but I’ve been to conventions where there are dozens of artists tattooing people and they have their booth set up. Those are really cool, you get to see a ton of people with really good art. Highly recommended if you haven’t been to one. Glad…[Read more]

Welcome to the group Paul 🙂

Looks pretty cool. What are you doing with the circle…I’m assuming that’s a globe. Are you going to add a world map to it of some sort? That might look kinda neat!

Good luck Lady B! Take a camera along and take some pics for us! I haven’t been to a tattoo convention yet this year…I’m over due.

Yup, what they all said. Welcome. And visit lots of tattoo shops, check out the artists, look at the work they have done, talk to other customers. That’s how you find a good place to have your piece done!

Welcome to the group! I’m sure it must be pretty hard to break into the tattoo industry. Because you’re dealing with things like blood-borne diseases etc, there is a huge safey factor. Take you’re time, learn from the professionals! It’ll be interesting to follow your progress…keep us updated.