Tattoos

Loving that work, also loving his manifesto for tattooing you, translated from the original polish by google, so apologies for some grammatical issues, my emphasis in bold.

IMPORTANT! Read before you ask or send a message:

• I work in Katowice
  
• Please write to me by my name:)
  
• Projects prepare only on the day of the session (you can not see them before)
  -** Tattooing only original projects prepared individually for each client
  
• I do not make 2 times the same pattern
  
• I do not make cover-ups (not I cover old tattoos)
  
• I do not make derivative works of plagiarism and other tattoo artists and illustrators
  
• I do not make work in color
  
• I do not make uniform sleeves / legs
  
• I do not make a habit of microscopic projects 0-8cm**
  
• I do not make the subtitle
  
• Details of the project at the earliest I consult for 1-3 days before the agreed meeting
  
• It is possible to arrange two people in one day
  
• The issue of valuation is set individually on the basis of the estimated range of the
  
• Messages not required to book a date data can completely ignore
  
• I do not send my projects to implement them by other tattooists
  - I put the recently increasing emphasis on a completely original projects
  

Snob

I just want a barcode and a registered design mark on the sole of my foot.

Eric Rieth

Brian Gomes

I can't stop staring at this. It's perfect.
I don't want to look at 2013.

Best ink I've seen for ages.

Gakkin

Thomas Hooper

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DfeBzkpwUAA/UuFnffxevzI/AAAAAAAAVcg/9gC26Atpr7E/s1600/Kamil_Czapiga_2013_Tattoo_245_I.jpg

http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-tattoo300114/7.jpg

http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-tattoo300114/8.jpg

http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-tattoo300114/4.jpg (might be NSFW)

http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-tattoo300114/2.jpg

Really like the detail of the linework and shading on these.
(Also probably the fact that they are good photographs)

From:
http://kamilczapiga.blogspot.sg/p/tattoo-2014.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-13e-klLFt3o/UuFnartKI1I/AAAAAAAAVbk/YKJQDfEokmo/s800/Kamil_Czapiga_2013_Tattoo_242.jpg

I can't stop staring at this. It's perfect.
I don't want to look at 2013.

Wow, love these.

I like this a lot.

Not for everyone, but I love Hannah's work. @hlctattoo on Instagram - she's an apprentice at Rain City.

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I like this a lot.

Reminds me very strongly of Chaim Machlev's more abstract work...

... which I don't actually like very much. Both of those artists have strong ranges with much that I do find attractive, but most pieces in this style really don't do it for me. So impersonal and abstract, looks as if the artist has just been doodling on the customer and isn't really connecting to them. When I see a bunch of these images together, it has the feel of an advertising campaign.

The effect depends very much on it being the only tattoo. You can't put anything else near them or, in most cases, on the same half of the body without diminishing it. I wonder if some of the customers go on to develop the itch for another tattoo and how they resolve that.

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I haz no idea what you're talking about ;-)

I got another Tattoo by Gary Donnelly today. Definitely felt this one.

Are you a Capricorn?

one way to disguise a sunken chest I suppose

I don't actually like very much.

Some good points. I really like this abstract style. I'm aware that my tastes differ a decent amount from most of the stuff posted on this thread but I dig it.

Good point about not putting anything near it. I'd just consider the conspicuous space around it as an element of the larger design.

one way to disguise a sunken chest I suppose

nope, just fat.

Sternum = no fun

Nice piece sumo.

I got another Tattoo by Gary Donnelly today. Definitely felt this one.

Why a ram's skull? And what does Scoot think? I have to say, I think I'd be fairly startled to see this staring back at me in a moment of intimacy.

Miss Mouse - are you really that short?

^ do you even cowgirl?

Animist