i have a tattoo on my foot i kind of regret.

it was supposed to be an anatomically correct heart but all the detail faded out of it so i have a pink and blue strawberry on my foot.

not gunna get it covered up, ill just goto a proper artist to revamp it next time instead of thining a 50 buck tatt was a good idea.

I’ve never see a bro with a foot tattoo. Only chicks

Psyral Infection said
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i wanna get the AA tag on my foot with “hi my name is stupid’.

i also was curious about the pain. everyone says it sucks, but nothing prepares you for it, its incredible. i have never felt anything like it. i can sit like a stone getting inked, doesnt bother me. but i almost punched the dude square in the face. i was like being stabbed. but worse.

Novocaine, That Aussie Asshole said

i also was curious about the pain. everyone says it sucks, but nothing prepares you for it, its incredible. i have never felt anything like it. i can sit like a stone getting inked, doesnt bother me. but i almost punched the dude square in the face. i was like being stabbed. but worse.

Talk about pain? Try getting your dick peirced. Yea

scruffy said  
chunk:  a cop can put you on a gang list for whatever the fuck he wants.  the excuses they use are just window dressing.  

That’s what I’ve always kind of assumed is they can if they wanna

you see i personally never liked the idea of getting a tat simply for the “art” of it. to me tattoos are suposed to mean something to you.

if you get a tat because it looks cool, it’s kinda like buying that god awe-full green fedora on ST. Patty’s day, yeah it’s cool as fuck to have it then, and you may even want to  where it for a week or so after, but after a while, it stops being so awesome and just gets put on the hat rack to gather dust.

so a tat that was cool when you where 18 may not be as cool to you when you are 26, if you get it because it actually means something to you, you can look at it later and remember what it means to you, you may not like the art as much, but at least you can say that it still means something and that’s why you love it,

if you get a tat because it looks cool, it’s kinda like buying that god awe-full green fedora on ST. Patty’s day, yeah it’s cool as fuck to have it then, and you may even want to  where it for a week or so after, but after a while, it stops being so awesome and just gets put on the hat rack to gather dust

Great comparison, personally, I do have a few St. Patty’s Day tattoos that’s for sure!  When your a teenager in the 90’s, its a must that you have something tribal and something in old English!  haha  I also have tattoos that mean a lot to me as well.  To be honest i don’t even notice my tats anymore, there just a part of me now.  Actually, it would be really weird if there were gone!! 

ok scruffy, i dont usually do this because i have alot of respect for you. but here goes.

been heavily pressured to get myself into the business.  not gonna do it, though, for many reasons, the biggest being that no one wants a tattoo from a guy that has none.  and, that the whole ‘apprenticing’ thing is some bullshit.  

wrong. i have tattooes from untattooed (or extremely lightly tattooed people) and they are fine. the amount of times ive heard ‘oh ive been pressured to get into tattoo but i wont because its not a real apprentice ship’ is some REAL bullshit. your right its not considered a trade, but you have to learn and by learning you start at the bottom. dont call it an apprenticeship, you start out as a floor sweep and gopher. work your way up.

realistically, you dont have the talent. and know it. but are too proud to admit it openly. (i am only assuming here, as ive never seen your artwork)

My first tattoo was from an apprentice, and aside from being a little heavy handed it has held up 10 years. 

if you are passionate about your art and good at it. stop being a little bitch and go for it.

anyway…  they all, without exception, scoff at people who walk in off the street and tap some random flash on the wall.  even the ones whose forearms and thighs look like sketchbooks, from all their ‘practice’.  

cracks me up, too.  i dont know why they even bother to hang flash, except to fill up wall space;  its always the same two dozens designs, over and over and over.  or some shit they saw on facefook.  ‘i want something that sets me apart, and really fits my personality, so im gonna get this trendy silliness that every other kid is wearing’.  

Anyone, and i mean ANYONE who acted like that around me would get a black eye.

Alot of tattoo shops in perth dont hang the generic flash anymore. but flash art is a very important part of tattooing. not everyone is gunna be a boog  star or chris nunez. most of the flash i see nowadays are from the artist themselves from when they were learning to design tattooes or when they are bored. IF your tattoo artist isnt designing flash on a regular basis and focusing heavily on ‘custom art’ they are probably not very well trained and should go back to their apprenticeships.

Most tattooers will have a substantial amount of down time. why not hone your skills in drawing while givign yourself the potential to make more money?

Flash art will make up a large portion of your income. don’t hate on it.

My dragon is a wall flash design, but it is one of the artists own designs. 

I wanted a William Webb flash art sleeve for years, ive moved on from that now, but it gave me the entire basis for my chest piece. Don’t hate flash.

I know stores that do flash days every couple of months, they will design 2 or 3 pages of flash and pump them out and do 10 – 15 in a day at 100 a piece. when was the last time you earned 1500 bucks in a day? didnt think so. Yeah scoff at flash. 

It really grinds me how some artists treat flash art. I read once that joe capobianco has made over 300 flash books (not sure if that was the exact nubmer, but it was around there and in the 100s) in his career. I’m sure your awesome artists are doing better work than him though. 

mmmmbrainz put it best:  decide what you want to wear, and where you wanna wear it.  then wait a year.  if ya still want it, its a good choice.  if not, youre probably better off without.  incidentally, brainz is one of maybe five people i know who has tattoos that im jealous of.  

if/when i ever get around to gettin tattooed, its absolutely gonna be custom art, applied by a master [of all the artists i know personally, theres only three, just three, that i would let tattoo me].  most likely, itd be art that i provide, or at least, the basic layout would be mine.  these guys [actually two guys and one chick], i would trust to be able to actually improve the design.  most artists cant even draw as well as me, and im no pro.

paragraph 1: i used to think like that. but then i realised that i went 9 years without a tattoo. because i wasnt able to let anything grow on me. I’m sure brainz has some very pretty tattoo’s. I get what i want now, when fancy takes me most of the time. as long as the design is solid and the artist is reputable then im happy. if i like it now it can only grow on me.

If i had sat and thought about it, i wouldn’t have this amazing tattoo that i love more and more everyday. I cop alot of shit for it, but fuck what anybody thinks. its dope as fuck. 

Paragraph 2: I am sorry to say this, i truly am. But i will laugh so fucking hard, like shit in my pants hard, bleeding from my nose hard that if and when you decide to get a nice dirty big piece of custom art you sit through 2 hours of inking and throw the towel in and never go back.

Seen it happen alot of times. Get some smaller pieces to get to know the feel. go to your desired artist and get them todo some (god forbid) flash designs out of their personal collection (and if they dont have one, RUN. they arent that good). you may find your artist is a heavy handed blowout king/queen who is good at covering shit up. 

if the artist says they ‘do tats’, thats a bad sign.  

if they say ‘tattoo gun’, instead of tattoo machine, bad sign.  

if they dont try to talk you out of gettin a tattoo on a spot that will wear away, like most of the hand, bad sign.  

if they talk about how fast they are, bad sign.  

if youre drunk, or even slightly tipsy, and they dont tell you to come back tomorrow, bad sign.  

mostly good, but as long as they remind you that heavy traffic areas (hands/feet etc) will fade with time and need to be redone i dont see a problem.

personally i will never get my hands/neck/head tattoo but if i wanted one, nothing short of the artist flat our refusing to do it would stop me. 

if you ask about a jokers card or hatchetman or sumn, and they say anything about how lame icp is…  very bad sign.  they will do a half-assed job on it.  heard that story a zillion times.  and people wonder why i tell them that their riddle box tattoo looks like a green smurf.  itz cuz thats what it looks like.  

Incredibly simple solution. Research. 

look for someone who has done juggalo related tattoos well before. Or people who are professional. If i decide on a design, i look into people who specialise in it.

i wanted a video game tattoo, i found a nerdy tattooer.

I wanted and awesome new school tatt i looked for a new school artist and so on.

i can go on and on about this stuff. most people have incredibly low standards, considering that they will be wearing the tattoo for the rest of their lives.

actually most people are uninformed. not have low standards. yeah people who are willing to jump in bed with a scratcher have low standards, but those who actually rock up to a tattoo shop shouldnt be belittle by a douche bag who cant be bothered.

Don’t like your job get out of the service industry. your only going to fuck up peoples lives with half assed tattoo’s.

So i just spent about an hour writing all this down. im done.

eh, just got off work and in a shitty mood. got a 6 day work week. dont like working the extra day. puts me ina foul mood. nothing personal. you just happened to be the first motherfucker in line (been listening to the wraith all day haha).

i still cant see where you openly admitted ot not having talent. but if you did then i redact my dick comment.

Not being interested in it definitely means you should not do it. and i disagree completely. if you suck at art then you should not be a tattoo artist. its not the 70s anymore, and thick as fuck lines and bold straight up thick colour doesnt really work aswell anymore.

I know you werent, that was more aimed at tattooers in general. you just happened to be the person to bring it up. again my bad.

Actually i was more assuming that you didnt like the idea of apprenticing because its not a trade. did i say it was about money? i dont think i did, or maybe i did. i wrote that for an hour. lol

research, yeah i wasnt blaming you, just happened to bring it up. gotta yell at someone.

anyways. no beef. just bad mood. wanna hug it out?

im going to bed, fuck this computer. gotta be up in 6 hours. stupid dogs need walking. see, i ahte my dogs right now too. and i love them more than i love my wife.