One of the places I use is 65 miles away, so its 130+ mile round trip each session. The other is 5 miles lol.

Inner arm is not too bad, depending on if its solid colour or shading. Shading gets soooorrre!

 

lol, the SN collective should really be the judge of that

 

 

Don't be daft

 

Here are pics of me.
Apologies for my Scottish whiteness!!!

 

Oh I like that

 

Why thank you.
Started off with the Jap dragon on the left and while in for that 2nd sitting I was booking myself in for the koi on the right.
Oh, and Abigail is my daughter. Not the dragon

 

I'd guessed it would either be your daughter or your wife, but glad you cleared up it wasnt the dragon

 

Time for another sitting today, in a couple of hours time, but guess who woke up with a bout of gout.... In the foot that is being tattooed.......? Yup that's right, meeeeeee!

So far there is no swelling, so should get away with it, but it's gonna be interesting to say the least. They might refuse. Just got to hope the skin doesn't get sensitive like it does some times.

Only me! Lol

 

Joking aside, I have heard that is really painful. Good luck today

 

Haha that's just like me in the tattoo chair!
Thankfully it's in the less painful part of the foot, down the outside, down from the little toe. Just a little delicate.

Will see how I go. But further to this, I have also just managed to slice my ankle, not once, but twice, while shaving my foot..... Only me eh lol.

 

Well its as I thought, not bad at all. Just having some texture added to the ropes at the mo.

 

Another hour to go, more shading on the same side, different part of the piece though. Just cos I'm comfortable lol

 

Looks really good, Snazy.
How come you aren't all red and blotchy?? My last one was

 

All done for today

 

Depends what's being done. Block shading like the later bits go like that for a bit.

 

Last couple of pics for today.

 

A few days later, redness calming down now. The little piece of rope over my ankle is raw and sore as hell lol.
I also managed to get the best all around picture of the whole piece which I have added.

Just trying to decide on the final pieces now. Idea was to do the bandana contrasting in red, not solid of course. With the detail of the eyes beneath it. The bandana is to represent a bandit mask, seeing as John died on his pride and joy Bandit.

 

Some nice ink your all wearing.
Im a fan of the one on your foot too Snazy.

Ive got a few myself as my friend owns his own tattoo parlour.

Heres my most recent, and now ive just had my sons name (Caleb) added between the beaks.

And waxing my chest before having it done, actually hurt more than the tattoo itself!

 

Cheers mate.
Waxing foof that! Lol
Off to my other tattooist in the morning to have some more work on my dragon/warrior piece.

I love my foot piece too, Michelle is brilliant!

 

Haha yeah tell me about it!

I shaved it when i had my lads name done.

I need to get my mate to shut shop for the day so i can get some of my pieces finished.

 

Don't get me started on shaving, I cut my ankle a few times last week when I was shaving it, feckin ouch!
Which reminds me, I have not shaved my thigh, doh, too late lol.

I need to get my thigh finished but it's got a looooong way to go lol

 

Well, here we are in the chair again... Couple of pics, where we started today, and where we are so far.

 

All finished for the day, and finally home, another 150mile round trip over with lol
Got a fair bit done today, had a longer sitting than expected.

 

Had the first three hours on the lower part of my sleeve on Monday afternoon. As usual done by Leigh Oldcorn @ Cosmic Tattoo in Colchester.

Gone for a very traditional design, which should hopefully blend in nicely with the Jap dragon i've got on the upper half.

Obviously lots more work to be done. Just a few pics to give you an idea how it went

 

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Lol just kiddin, lookn fantastic. I showed a pic of your upper arm piece to someone on a BBM group who vowed to take it to their artist to have something similar.

Loving the work mate, look forward to it's progress.
I'm in the chair again on Saturday

 

Nice bodski

 

wow boyd,looks awesome mate,love it! dont know now if i can afford to get leigh to do mine,might have to go to sith tattoo in norwich,have a look at their site amd let me know what you think mate?
tim

 

Tim, seriously money is not a reason to choose another artist, I'm sure most would agree. If one was 50 an hour and the other, better one 80, have shorter sittings at the better one, and take more time getting it done.

It's with you for life, don't accept second best. If you have your heart set on one artist, stick with it. If their work is identical, then fair play.

PS , sorry if that sounds like an ott lecture lol

 

Totally agree with Michael. Not sure how much they charge @ Sith in Norwich?? Leigh's no more expensive than any other good artist.

Mistake I've made is not booking more time when I booked in the 3 hours I've just had. Gotta wait till mid June for the next 3 hour sitting

Gonna nip in tomorrow and see if I can book in a few 1-2 hour sittings before then