Can anyone recommend a local artist for portrait or photo realism work? I'm looking to get something similar to the piece below except in black and grey. I'm looking through books and online for the exact pictures that I want to get.

http://www.prickmag.net/sarkozizsoltfeature2.jpg

Right now I'm considering getting it done in Las Vegas by Robert Pho, since he only has a three month wait and his work is absolutely amazing. I'm not really concerned about price since the piece will be on me forever.

Where is rain city? If/when I go for another one, I'd like to find Kirk again.

edit* instead of being super lazy, I just went on his website.

if you are looking for that type of style in black and gray and money is not a problem, might i suggest jose lopez from lowrider tattoo cali

if you could wait beanzzz, my tattooist is comming from Asia, and hes amazing.
7 times medalist, will update his info when he gets his site back up running

My first tattoo, still a work in progress - hope to add on and cover most of my upper arm. My mom died of cancer, the characters represent her birth date and day she died. Pretty tame compared to the awesome work most of you guys have done, but here it is:

sorry for you'r loss man,.. ink is well done !!

^sorry for your loss bro...kk finally gonna upload mine outlines been done for a month just been too lazy to upload...not the greatest quality pic either sorry ill get a better one at my next session

http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/...1111-00086.jpg

Sorry for your loss. Great memorial tat.

I am contemplating memorial for my Grandma, she died of a stroke.

IMO memorial tattoos look better with art rather than gravestone writing.. but that's just my opinion

So I'm probably going to get some more work did in February

I have no idea what to get though... time to start brainstorming. Probably another animal or creature

3 hours today , and i'm done !!... have 2 full sleeves and chest now.


http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g3...w/IMG_9024.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g3...w/IMG_9026.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g3...w/IMG_9050.jpg

i will have some pics of my sleeves and chest up soon.

nice collection you have there

thanx dude,.. next is lettering on mu upper chest lower neck and then i start my legs !!!

anyone have any recommendations for artists who can actually do chinese characters with brush strokes in everything? Not the generic chinese block letters you see on eveyrone

Appt booked jan 5th for my chest to get started by pat at port side. Then March is start of my ribs by justin ormiston in whistler, and whenever the hell I get 2 days off to get my 2nd half sleeve finished by my friend back in edmonton. Gonna be an expensive few months, but well worth it.:)

getting it shaded in today

Going to get my first tattoo next Thursday anyone some advice? I heard to get a lot of rest the night before and eat a good meal before.
Getting it done at adrenaline by from Logan
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As a general rule, they actually tell you not to eat anything within a couple hours before getting your ink done. Some people's nerves and reflexes act up when they're getting their tattoo. So a common one is people vomitting after a few minutes under the needle.

For some reason, I've been told that drinking diet pop during/after your tattoo helps. Something with the aspartame, I guess.

Hope your design isn't anything too big or complex.
Adrenaline's known to be a little sloppy with their work.

I had a word in handwriting done by Funhouse and it came out perfect. Took a bit over an hour, felt sore as fuck after.

I had another one (the same size) done by Adrenaline and it came out all blotchy. Took 45 mins. I didn't feel anything. I could've fallen asleep under the needle, and I barely felt any soreness afterwards. Right then I knew that the ink wasn't as deep as it should've been, and he didn't put as much effort in as the artist from Funhouse.

It's only a small tattoo, so I wasn't too worried. Probably gonna get them all touched up soon anyways.

what is that?i cant really tell

snakes with flowers... how hard is that? lol

^yup...pictures bad quality...looks a lot different now...ill try to take a good picture tmr

If you're willing to drive, my friend got a decent sized tattoo done a year or so ago and it looks like it was brushed on, it turned out really well. I can find out the name of the artist if you're interested.

Got the linework on me heart today. All the pieces popping out are little chunks blowing out with light rays shining through. Doesn't really mean anything, just wanted a heart. Stoked on it already. Eventually will find a way to tie it all into my sleeves, but thats a ways away. Going on 22nd for shading, then a few weeks after for colour.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l3...06/photo-7.jpg

Yes please do, thanks in advance

pretty recent. 1st sitting. almost 5 hours.. need to finish the top, touch up some of the blacks then start on the inside