Tattoos

My new one done on my recent trip to Thailand. Wanted to go to Wat Bang Phra to the temple for a proper Bamboo tat, but got smashed drunk on the Khao San road the night before and slept right through. It was my last day there so I thought I'd make up for it with a nice little traditional Thai demon warrier. Sorry for the shit phone pic but the second image is from the page of the book i chose it from. Something about an ancient battle or something.... ANyway.. I'll shut up now.

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That's very nice. Adding any colour or would that be sacrilege?

Guy le Tatooer

What's the life span for something like this?

i.e. how many years have you got before fine linework dissolves into a blur, and what options do you have then if you want to sharpen it up again?

Not sure about the lifespan, have never seen aged tattoos from that guy.
I think it will hold up rather well, because the shading is done via a lot of single dots,
but I really am no expert on the matter.
I think you could 'sharpen up' something like a tribal tattoo that has blurred (by re-doing it, basically),
but I'm pretty sure there is no way to 'sharpen' something like the above.

Aged, good tattoos look cool, its only shit tattoos that look shit.

What part of the anatomy are they tattooed to?

thighs by the look of it

Aged, good tattoos look cool, its only shit tattoos that look shit.

Some shit tattoos are awesome....

Anyone had any work done by Andrea Furci?

That's very nice. Adding any colour or would that be sacrilege?

Thanks. I think it would be a shame to add colour, I guess its not what the original artist would have intended. I have 3 large colour pieces elsewhere and 2 (now 3) other monocolour so it ties in quite nicely (well i think so anyway, and I couldn't give a rats ass what anyone else does)

my little brother went to a tattooist in bristol to talk about getting a peacock tattoo, he took a pic for a rough guide but the tattooist said 'it ws too detailed, any chance of getting a more cartoony picture?'
suffice to say he walked out.

on a lighter note, here is my weekly Peter Lagergren i like
(i will get over to Sweden one day and get one by him)

I like this muchly.

Francesca de Angelis. Her colour work is mostly unimpressive, but I love her tiki designs.

http://www.tatuaggitikitattoo.com/polopoly_fs/1.7565904.1326809587%21/httpImage/img.jpg

http://www.tatuaggitikitattoo.com/polopoly_fs/1.7764637.1326811842%21/httpImage/img.JPG_gen/derivatives/landscape_490/img.JPG

http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/114/a102d0f2ef64429d9e62cfa314bd4478/l.jpg

I like this muchly.

I'm not impressed with the position of the script below the wheel.

^ & it's written really badly... why go to the trouble of guild-lines & then ignore kerning or weight.

I'm not impressed with the position of the script below the wheel.

Kind of ironic.

could of done with some guidance eh...

Does anyone know what's happened to Shangri-la Tattooes? I cycled by today and it looks like the interior has been demolished?

^ really? I've been vaguely planning to go there soon

http://zunoelectric.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/14.jpg

^do like very much. Where were they done?

Anyone got tattooed by Frank Carter?
I want one to say I have, but can't really find much of his work to get inspiration from.

Does anyone know what's happened to Shangri-la Tattooes? I cycled by today and it looks like the interior has been demolished?

It always looked like that didn't it?

Been painting/drawing a lot recently. Thoroughly enjoyable