Start to the bottom half:

Finished the top half off yesterday. Coloured in the moon, put a bit of pink shading in the flowers, finished the swords and horns, touched up a fair bit and bolded a lot of the lines again to make it pop. Looks a bit choppy atm because some of the lines have been touched up but once the ink settles in and heals properly, it will blend and look a…[Read more]

Thanks guys. Had a quick 2 hour session today because he had an opening and offered it to me but I had work to go to. Got most of the top finished off and just have chuck some more pink in the cherry blossoms, shade and colour the blades of the swords and put a little yellow in the moon.

Thanks guys! Had session #6 today and almost finished the top half. Probably one of the least painful sessions so far and for some reason about 40 minutes in I was feeling light headed and had to take a quick break. Had a panadol and I was fine for the rest of the session. Artist said it may have been because I wasn’t used to the type of needle he…[Read more]

Cheers guys, next session is just under 2 weeks from now and the majority of it should get finished. At the very least, the temple will be completed and most of the colouring on the samurai, I think. So keen to finally see what the samurai will look like in colour.

Thanks for the comments so far guys. I’m all the way down in melbourne, australia. Would be pretty cool if someone knew a great tattooist down here.

Samurai follow Bushido which is in high relation to how one should act (for lack of a better word) during not only war but life. Involves qualities like bravery, family pride, selflessness and amazing devotion. I personally believe a Samurai fighting a dragon (depending on it’s colour) can symbolise these particular qualities overcoming whatever…[Read more]

Personally I guess I could say that I stare but it is more admiration than anything (depending). However, when I stare at some of the guys that go to my school and the shitty tattoos they got done illegally, it’s in disgust really. Almost all of them are typical tribal or/with a clich’e sentence in fancy font text.

One of the girls actually just…[Read more]

Scissors;65853 wrote:
With risk of sounding repetetive:
As Sherav said, the tattoos will only be affected if you gain or lose a lot, but it think it also has to do with how fast. Steroids for example may cause your skin to burst which may damage the tattoo. However, when you grow at normal speed the skin stretches naturally.

Just a question…[Read more]

Just looks like average Old English text with curls on the bottom of each letter. Shouldn’t be too hard to even just work with a tattooist on each letter if necessary.

Thanks, that comforts me a lot. Tbh I’m not quite sure, I was always going to get a black Tribal based tattoo with other personal meanings incorporated into it. However, when I came here I saw some of the colour work and it looks absolutely amazing.

I’d like to design it myself but even though I’ve been labelled as quite artistic I don’t seem to…[Read more]