had a similar thread on another board i use. gonna bump this with a copy paste of my collection to date.
ok, im FINALLY gonna post in this thread with my pics. claywoman took all these for me.
my first, got it the week i graduated highschool. to remind me of home. (i thought i'd be much farther away by now....)
my second, done at the same place as the first, Adam Bomb Gallery in Milwaukee. THe law in illinois used to be 21 for tattoos. so i went to WI to avoid going to a shitty shop. great tattoo shop. this is my own design, we always called it the metal as fuck tree, which it is. though its more hippyish than anything to me.
Chicago skyline. the star is for columbia's campus. Board of Trade, Sears, Hancock. my own design again, he didnt make the bold outline bold enough for how i saw it, ill have someone do that someday. darkest hour lyrics in the banner. kinda feels like a bad omen though, since my friends didnt start literally dying until after i got the tattoo.
my first custom tattoo, and my first friendship tattoo. done by my friend rodney taylor, his color treatment is amazing. bouncing souls heart. lawrence arms "key to the city." (the blade of the key is hard to see in this photo, but look close)
very old rise against artwork done by rodney. says alot about me. my body didnt like the red ink much, and i was working stock at best buy so it healed crappy and the color isnt solid, which should bother me, but it doesnt. he drew it up from a cloth patch i cut off my sweatshirt. then he said he coulda done the drawing with it still sewn on...
suffer kid, its a lighter tattoo because i wanted to see what it would be like to not use an outline, besides a pain in the ass for rodney. it looks pretty cool i think, will stand out more as i fill in the rest of that arm someday.
my chest bar says You Only Live Once in german. done in germany by a girl with a VERY heavy hand. hurt unbelievably for 3 hours while i listened to we are the union and the riot before. to this day the entire thing is raised up noticeably if you touch it. probably will blur out early, but its fun to run my fingers over.
heres some of my in progress sleeve. A guardian Foo Dog on the bottom, some wind and waves, a GIANT phoenix at the top. there will be clounds and a rising sun motif at the top to fill in space. that wrist session suuucked pretty bad. thank god for morphine. unfortunatly i dont have the money to finish the whole thing before i go away. gonna start selling shit i dont need. and rodney is gonna start letting me work for tattoo time, dude is the shit!
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(which is why I recommend against putting a spouse or girlfriends name on your body!). I have since added the word 'Blue' to this and surrounded these words with a Stratocaster guitar head since I named my guitar 'Blue Moon' 