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legacycontinues wrote:who or what should this artist pracitce on? Mr. Bigglesworth? Himself? Bums off the street? Corpse?

Interested in knowing.

I'm going to be apprenticing with my girflriend's mom, who owns a shop where I live. she said I'll have to practice on fruit (melons and stuff) until there's someone brave enough to let me ink them! (probably myself, at first )

I asked my artist about that last time I was in there, and he said that you'd be surprised how many people are willing to get cheap/free tattoos

Same^. A friend of mine owns two tattoo/piercing parlors.

Steve

A friend of mine is an aspiring artist. I've seen some of his ink, and it's pretty damn good. Shading and everything.

I want a solid line, super simple, traditional colored, semi-tiny, coverable with a sock, Kokopelli riding a velocipede. And my friend will probably do it for me.

Forgot to mention that I saw the hottest piercing ever! It was in a magazine at my friend's shop and it was this smoking chick with small hoops in two vertical rows up the back sides of her legs which had black straps going through them up from her heels and leading up to the short skirt she was wearing. I stared at that picture like Michael Jackson in a boys' shower. I'm not a leg fanatic, I like legs, but there's something about stappy shoes that drive me nuts and this ... was even better.

That is all.

Steve

like a corset piercing, only on the legs? that's kinda hot

That's the idea, but they were spaced farther apart vertically and were even on both sides so they laced like a shoe that had been stretched out. The effect was similar to the shoes with the straps wrapping around the whole leg. I imagine it looks weird without the straps in place, though.

Steve

They're only "play" piercings, or special occasion piercings. The percentage of surface piercings that reject(no matter what way you pierce them) is so high that it would not be plausible to keep them in and looking good. It's usually done for special occasions, like dances, parties, conventions or photoshoots, then removed either that night, or the next day.

Good to know. Thanks.

Steve

steve, I know the exact ad you're speaking of.. it's in a couple issues of "PAIN" magazine that dana has at the shop

Yeah, I think you're right. I know I looked at at least one issue of that magazine (along with others looking for a specific tribal flower my friend wanted to get). I have a few ideas for some tattoos, but I can't see myself getting a bunch of them so I probably never will. I was thinking an armband of the Colloseum, maybe with one in mint condition on one arm and how it stands today on the other. And definitely a rearing or charging elephant, possibly tossing a human in the air, but that detail would require it to be huge or maybe in the logo of the Evolution Movement cult (I may do this if my books get published). Also a white shark as I think those things are awesome.

Steve

I'd have to agree with being a good artist different than being a good tattooist or whatever. Someone that can shadow and tint a design on skin is pretty damn good.

Well, I have to say, went out today, and got a new piercing. not anything crazy or outlandish, I got a monroe. my only facial piercing. I like it, it's sparkly, and WRB. Too bad it's so damn swollen. lol

i'll have photos when art gets home

[edit] here's your photo

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Hey good lookin'!