I’m also from Dallas, and I know the artists at Randy Adam’s are good. I personally go to a smaller shop in Hurst called pipeline tattoos. The chick that run’s it is pretty chill and also a great artist.

These are the only two I’ve actually been too, but there are plenty of shops all over the place, so look around or just go with your friends…[Read more]

My arms did the same thing when I got them done. It just takes longer than other tattoos, but it will go back to normal.

That is amazing!!

Granted I’m not the artist and I’m completely guessing. But it looks like what you have now is just guide lines for when you go in for the shading and all that.
However like I said just a blind guess, cause I’ve also never seen anything like that before.

That’s a fantastic looking sleeve. I’m also looking to start one soon, don’t know what style yet though. But it doesn’t matter cause I need money anyhow 😉

Pictures would be helpful, other than that talk to artist that you know. They make a living off of this so they know what looks good and what would totally ruin the whole arm.

I would also take line work over shading, just bothers me more when the shading starts. But that could just be do to that I’ve settled down and all the adrenaline is gone, who knows.

How long was the sitting for this one? Like I said I’ve never done a color piece on myself, so I was wondering how much longer adding color is.

Shaneslawn: Your posts read like a text from a 12 year old girl. I will at least make an effort to write my post with proper use of capital letters, sentences, and punctuation. If I misspell a word, I am only human.

shaneslawns;77596 wrote:
since u called me out by name ill jump in….i can handle it topkitty….is that plate your catfood your…[Read more]

hahaha I think you missed the point on that one Topdog…look at how he spelt dyslexic 😀

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Not gonna lie I laughed.

Looks good, I also went with a rib tattoo for my first 😀 only way to get the right introduction to tats in my opinion. Congrats on the ink

Best thing to do is go to the artist, I know you’ll see that alot on this forum. But that’s simply cause it’s the truth, go to the artist with all these ideas, and if you have things you already know you want take images and start brainstorming ideas. They’re going to be the ones working the ink so they’re going to have the best idea of what they…[Read more]

I prefer black and white for myself, but I do agree that color was the better choice for this one 😀

I really like the black and version of it, however the color makes it pop. All and all it looks great, have fun with the healing now (:

You should keep working at it. Really really hard, or just stick to getting professional work done. I would go with the latter.

ArniVidar;76986 wrote:
Not a single millimeter of mine is raised, and I thought that was the norm. Raised, as I’ve understood, means that the artist was heavy-handed. I’d like to know which is true.

The heavy-hand is probably the case cause I know my artist is, she’s good at what she does but indeed heavy-handed.

Like Apostle said it’s pretty normal. I’ve had my back done since last summer and it’s still feels a lil raised, shouldn’t be as drastic as when you first got it, but you’ll be able to feel it.

Congratulations on the finished product, it looks great!

This was a awesome read for how quick it was, always interesting to hear of others adventures and to see pics of the ink that has incompanied it. Keep us posted and best of luck with the rest of the work.