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Tats

gfisher2002 said:
Nice tats guys and gals.
I thought I'd contribute as well.
I just had a lovely (read not lovely) 4 hour sitting to have the outline on my back done. It's a grave yard to immortalize my 2 sisters and grandpa that have passed. As well as representy when I met my wife and how life changed. I was a very different person before that so I wanted a way to kind of "put her name on me" without actually using her name. That's what my tomb represents.
It's just the outline and I have 5 more 4 hour sessions booked everyother weekend. The shading has to be done, and the tree branches will come over my shoulders and wrap around my arms and across my chest to an opeing where you can see an anatomical heart with the branches squeezing it.
I'm also adding a picture of my recently deceased Ambanja Panther cham and a Beardie head, on my right shoulder and bicep.
Everything is greyscale, no color. I got alot of ohhh's and ahh's for getting something so big for a first tattoo. But I have been designing it and waiting for over 5 years to get it. I won't lie, it hurt like hell. :yesnod:

I'll post some more pics as we progress.
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Not to be a nitpicker or anything, but methinks he forgot the second T in your name? here on fauna you use two, so im just curious? :p
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
Not to be a nitpicker or anything, but methinks he forgot the second T in your name? here on fauna you use two, so im just curious? :p
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No, your just a nitpicker.......MOO HAHAHA :hehe:
 
Ed Clark said:
No, your just a nitpicker.......MOO HAHAHA :hehe:
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Thannnnks! :rolleyes: :raspberry :rofl:

I was just sayin... you know, before things were MORE permanent and such! i know if my name was like his is spelled, and spelled wrong on something i payed big bucks for, it would bug the heck out of me!

Its a very nice tattoo though! the idea is something i havent seen before too! :thumbsup:
 
Ed, a few posts back I recommended Bob Tyrell as a good realism artist. Since then another member here introduced me to the work of Tom Renshaw. It was also highly recommended to choose Tom over Bob.
I wanted to make mention of that since I was the one who mentioned Bob in the first place.
I'm hoping to get some work done by Tom when he's relatively close to me doing a convention.
Here' shis website address:
http://www.tomrenshaw.com/index2.htm

Click on Galleries to see some of his amazing work.
 
I have 24 of em!! everything from guns,daughters name,koi,nautical stars,skulls,demons...yea for being only 20 I gOT A GOOD Start
 
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The tat guy I have worked with have plans and ideas to go around more and up to the shoulder.
 
Nice tats, everyone. I need to get a photo of mine and my hubby's posted (will do that tonight maybe). Speaking of reptile tats - a coworker of mine got a really realistic armband of his columbian boa. I'll see if he'll post a pic. His was done at American Skin Art (not that it helps a lot of you, since I'm in the Buffalo area). I personally like Jon Mirro - he does excellent Japanese detailed tattoos, and has a special liking for dragons (once he took a photo of my boa's belly scales so he could get more detailed with the way dragon scales transition from belly scales to side scales). Plus, Jon also does work in the NYC metro area (heh, the commuting tattoo artist). His shop out there is HRT in Hicksville. Out here, his shop is HOD Tattoo.

Will post photos later! I love the koi he did for me. I also have a dragon that Kate Hellenbrand (Shanghai Kate) did for me.
 
Love the work Rozann!! And Moo, I plan on getting some more work done. I am in the process of having some boas drawn up by Gib. The piece should be interesting because I want no outlining at all.

I cropped this the best I could to show the derail in this piece, the artist..Linda from "Outer Limits" in Orange Ca.
 

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Thank you Alicia and Laura.
There are some very nice tats on here. Laura it looks like we have some similiar ideas, I condensed mine as you have trailed yours, which looks very nice also. :thumbsup:

I do not regret getting this tat or any that I get in the future. It can be hid when needed, but I don't very often and it reflexs a bit of who I am and what I am about.
 
Colorful Lizards :)
 

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I'm a big tat lover - have quite a large one starting from my lower back of various vines and flowers with an angel perched on top. I plan on continuing up into the "heavens" eventually. As I'm originally from MA I have been traveling each summer to a guy who owns Sanctuary Tattoo in Portland, ME. who freehands additions each time I go. They are beautiful and seamlessly done but have climbed high up enough on my back that come summer. . . Ah, what the hell - the older I get the less I care! :yesnod:

I would love to know what percentage of herpers also have tattoos. Or has it become common enough that there is no correlation?
 
This was a really fun thread to look through. I don't have any tattoos currently but I've always wanted to get a small one. Now that I'm into balls I may, someday, get a tat of a ball python. Keep the pics coming, folks. They're so fun to see and give lots of good ideas.
 
Well, I have 7 tattoos atm. More to come for sure, Theyre addictive :D
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