Quote from: herm on May 23, 2008, 01:43:02 PM
no pic with your post.....

i have one professional tattoo, and 3 very small "unprofessional" ones.
i regret all of them, but not cause i dont like ink.
the professional one is on one of my shoulder blades. cant tell you which without looking in a mirror (and then i am likely to get it wrong...) my regret is getting it in a place that i can see it regularly
the unprofessional ones, are, well, very unprofessional. luckily the hide easy

herm...are you being a leg humper or can you really not see it....i'm slow today sorry...

Quote from: JBubble on May 23, 2008, 05:18:21 AM
Here's mine. Had a friend draw it out for me...

I have another in the works, just trying to find the right person to do oit.

I don't see it either

bastard. try this:



Does that work?

You are not a winner, please play again.


Ok You are a winner now. Here is a year supply of Turtle Wax.

Noyhing major.  Just some Latin text.  There's a third one down the back of my arm but have you ever tried to take a pcture of the back of your arm?

Quote from: teddy037.2 on May 23, 2008, 01:06:05 AM
I'm not sure about most... that seems to be... a bit of a stereotype.

the youth culture is alot more westernized, and (from what I've seen) the tattoo culture reflects that sort of 'americanism'

whether or not it's legal to 'show' ink in japan, I have no idea. it used to be illegal, last I heard.

I'm 99% sure that it's not illegal, just very uncouth.  If you have them you're not supposed to show them in public.  When I was there in 97-98 the general rule was still that tats on Japenese = Yakuza.  The social stigma on them is so great that the only ones with the juice to have them and not catch shit, are gangsters.  At least that was the general rule 10 years ago.

I worked on aircraft for the Air Force and loved aircraft nose art.

The artist did a lot better on the drawing than the actual tattoo...

Dana

 

Quote from: the_Journeyman on May 23, 2008, 05:20:37 AM
Here's mine.  Not a great pic, it's hard to take a pic of your own shoulder 



JM

dude i hope thats a pic of a mirror , casue some of those words are backwards.

and is that word on the left side top, suppose to be the number 7 or the word for strength

i keep editing my post. i cant tell some of the symbols (too IZ_) and i cant tell if its backwards or not.

Quote from: CDawg on May 23, 2008, 09:34:52 AM
the_Journeyman,
The photo, you posted up, was it shot with a mirror?

Possibly, I can't remember.  If the characters look reversed, I probably did 

Quote from: the_Journeyman on May 24, 2008, 04:39:42 AM
Possibly, I can't remember.  If the characters look reversed, I probably did 

Just tell people that it's secret code that's meant to be decoded using a mirror. 

Quote from: He Man on May 23, 2008, 05:53:39 PM
dude i hope thats a pic of a mirror , casue some of those words are backwards.

and is that word on the left side top, suppose to be the number 7 or the word for strength

i keep editing my post. i cant tell some of the symbols (too IZ_) and i cant tell if its backwards or not.

Probably is, I can't see how I could have held a camera and managed to shoot it properly.  AF doesn't work well with mirrors, so where it's IZ_, that's probably the case. 

The characters are strength (behind the dragon) love (by the chest) and good luck (above).  The accuracy depends on how well the artist was able to duplicate the characters ~

JM

Here's what I have.  Been getting ink'd for the past 12 years or so.  Some of my originals need a retouch (now that I see them in a picture   )







Then this past winter I wanted to do a moto-related tattoo but didn't want to get a logo or something like that.

So i took the Isle of Man flag



And turned it into this:



Which my artist turned into this:

Quote from: the_Journeyman on May 24, 2008, 05:00:51 AMThe accuracy depends on how well the artist was able to duplicate the characters ~
JM

I know about about 2000 of those characters. Yours are actually very well written in my opinion.

Quote from: Wanwo on May 25, 2008, 07:03:52 AM
I know about about 2000 of those characters. Yours are actually very well written in my opinion.

Good to know, thanks! 

Jm