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im ridin round and im gettin it

anil gupta's a boss. look at his work apart from the micro tats he kills it. i saw him getting tattooed by guy/filip/booth/jack. if the only tattoo i had was from those 4 dudes i wouldnt be rushing out to get covered in a bunch of other rubbish either. also nice bob shaw pic! wanted to add i think ben grillo is one of the best doing it right now. both deserve respect. grillo's stuff might be more what's "in" or something maybe that's another reason he gets a pass for tiny tats and anil gets crumbed on.

i like how mclovin lives on momona street. momona means "fat" in hawaiian. my screen name means like "rascal" or "mischief maker" in hawaiian.

honestly no your boy isn't on the right track at all. if he's tattooing less than 1yr, he shouldnt have even tried those tattoos. way beyond his skill level. when i started learning almost 13yrs ago my mentor only let me do quarter-size kanjis, hearts butterflies etc.. i got impatient and decided to do big pieces at home on my friends. now i'm super embarassed of those tattoos and realize i never should've done them back then. i hope your boy will be embarassed for posting those on here someday, that would mean he's really on the right track. for now dude just needs to fall back and work hard on his drawing cause his drawing and his tattooing both fall way short of being a professional right now. ps--had to add that before i even got to do the quarter size kanjis i spent like 8 months being the errand boy scrubbing tubes and all that. so i would say that whoever is apprenticing homeboy is letting him bite off way more than he can chew which i dont personally feel is the right way to teach someone. baby steps mang.

i thought that pic above was about how white people love the redsox. the only time boston suburb townies have something good to say about black dominicans is if they're hitting homeruns for the saaahx dudeguy.

is this mike brown who used to work for south china sea, good time charlies etc.? i was fortunate enough to meet that dude when he was working at skin deep in honolulu. a tattooer's tattooer. that's a big loss RIP!!!

any or all of the above. in jail you still have soap and water. also sometimes you can get listerine at the commissary to cut the ink which disinfects it--they also make graywash with ink and listerine. i'd never get a tattoo in jail but thats how they don't end up looking like that (except when they do end up looking like that lol)

is that the same nover from the bad tattoos thread? lolololol!!!! i hope ur armtat drawing is in your portfolio.

zlayer!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1051212533&sk=photos my personal faves are the portraits and lettering but the whole portfolio is gold.

also, for graphic design a certificate or 2yr program is more than enough. you're still gonna have to compete for jobs with people who learned the software on their own and are willing to do the work for $8hr. contrary to what they tell you in 4yr art schools, you will be making clipping paths for a living for years and no one cares about all the bauhaus design/swiss typography b.s. you talk about in those mind numbing "critiques."

as a art school dropout i'd describe it like a summer camp for adults. if your parents wont mind supporting you into your 30's, then go for it. the industrial design prof. at the school i went to said anyone majoring in the fine arts should save their tuition money and use it towards living in some hipster part of town, being at the right parties with the right look, and "schmoozing" with people (his words.) he said thats a better path toward becoming successful in the art world than going to the school where he taught. but if you have an extra $150,000 laying around then go for it.

wow. the fingerwaves. giant face panther cover up for sure. edit cause i cant even see a panther. face 8-ball oner.

if you wanna tattoo in miami beach or by a military base that dream can easily be a reality. i just did a tribal 1/2 sleeve into a tribal tiger chest panel that also connects to a full upper back tribal with a black and red yinyang in the middle. dude did a 6hr sitting every week for a month. zone out is a great way to describe it. i watched every movie i've wanted to catch up on for the last year.