The Official DMF Tattoo Thread

[cyrus buelton]

Nautical Stars done by Billy Hill at Envy Skin Gallery in Columbus Ohio. This guy is good. He has been featured in Tattoo magazine as well as appeared on some reality shows and recently been approached to host a show in Las Vegas, but doesn't want to leave his shop.



Tiff just got this done this afternoon. This is piece one of two. Unfortunately, Billy's Grandfather died today so he couldn't do both of them. Without getting into details, as this piece is politically motivated, look at the United States Seal and see what is on the left side and the right side. You can connect the dots.

[cyrus buelton]

note: picture quality on Tiff's ink isn't good. Makes some parts look like shit. Not the case at all.

[somegirl]

^ aw, thanks guys! It's about the constant search for knowledge and wisdom, in many different forms... it also demonstrates the fluidity/dynamism of knowledges to change and collapse (if the girl pulls a book from the middle of the stack, they'll all fall). The girl, based on the Disney Alice, represents one of the few female characters in traditional Western literature/myth who actually demonstrates curiosity and sets off on her own adventure, instead of being captured/under a spell/sleeping/otherwise prone/incapacitated and waiting for a man to rescue her. :p 
Plus, I wanted it to be anatomically interesting and look like vertebrae from afar... which it does.

[Monsterlover]

Wow- there are some great tattoos here!!!  Can't believe I didn't see this thread until now...

Ok, here's mine!  12 hrs, 4 sessions, by Tom Berg out of SoCal Tattoo in San Pedro, CA. (If anyone saw Prison Break- the first season- he designed the torso/sleeve tats for the main character)

That is unbelievable!

Great concept and excellent work

[cokey]

here's one of mine, yea I'm pretty white lol but i am rican..  this is 9 hours so far (not done yet) but it was for free.. my boy did it as my best friend drew it.. its my nickname -cokey- in wild style..


sorry for the glare.. still not sure if I'm doing color to finish it up or what.. most likely i will though.. i have more, PR flag and a cross for my pops (first cokey) above that both on upper arm.. a tribal dragon on the right upper arm for my sons mother who passed away.. and one on the chest of a girls name (ex fiance) i will be covering up soon.. i tried that balm stuff, but guess i didn't stick too the schedule enough..  will be getting something to do with poker and pool intergrated on my lower left arm eventually.. and i want to turn the right arm dragon into a sleeve.. ..

[Rameses]

New one I got earlier today...












Going back to get it colored in with a couple shades of red as soon as today's work's all healed up.   

[Monsterlover]

to you for getting that in that area.

I'm up to 11 tattoos and I have one that size in that same place, just not as involved.

It hurt like a mother. I thought I was going to explode.

I don't know why or how but my brain doesn't release endorphins when I'm hurting. It just hurts. Then hurts more

post pics when it's all colored in

[brix821]

gonna get my back finished on friday!

[Rameses]

gonna get my back finished on friday!

You gettin it done somewhere around here?

[Rameses]

to you for getting that in that area.

I'm up to 11 tattoos and I have one that size in that same place, just not as involved.

It hurt like a mother. I thought I was going to explode.

I don't know why or how but my brain doesn't release endorphins when I'm hurting. It just hurts. Then hurts more

post pics when it's all colored in

Yeah, all that work on the mane, head, and top leg and paw, everything up on my ribs, were pretty damned painful.

I'm really pleased with how it turned out.  I'll definitely post pics when it's done.

[Betty Rage]

I have a tat that goes from my hip bone up part of my side. That bone and the ribcage is PAINFUL!

[Rameses]

I have a tat that goes from my hip bone up part of my side. That bone and the ribcage is PAINFUL!

Yeah, I'm not exactly looking forward to that portion of the color work.

[Betty Rage]

Thought this would be fun to post here....

Three different shots of my tat and belly as it got bigger. It's interesting to see how the tat creeps below the belly, it never got stretched or distorted!

At 5 weeks preggo


At 22 weeks


32 weeks

[cokey]

yea lucky it was more towards the side..

[Betty Rage]

I'm going in Sunday to get mine!!