My back has an owie!!

Underground
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Nice tat. Wanna... uh, nevermind...

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...you coulda been in there nick...in future, dont give up so easy! :p

while we're at it, could i please get some opinions on the following...

  1. colouring of the dragon (scales, underbelly, eyes, etc) - greys or colours? (and which?)

  2. what kinda background? swirly flames or lighting storm or ... ?? (and what colours?)

...i'm mostly leaning to the whole greywash and a blue and purple swirly firestorm thing behind it. would be cool to see what yall thought tho, so please hit me!! :) ... you never know, you might make it onto my back! ;) hehe

while I'm still at it, maybe I shouldve broken the news to the old lady differently... we now go to the home of mr and mrs cooper, where their darling only child is appearing for the first time in over a week...

open scene

matt (to mummy): 'hey you wanna be really annoyed?'

mum: "huh?"

matt: 'do you wanna be really annoyed?' motions to shirt

mum: face goes blank "anything but a tattoo"

matt: shrugs shoulders, removes shirt and turns around

mum: face drops, incoherent mumble, walks away in disgust

...and scene!

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Nice stuff Matty...LMAO about your mum...happy times at the Cooper household. So what will she give you for Christmas, a wire brush??
I bet she's asking herself "where did I go wrong?"

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Check these

My favourite: http://www.eccentric.jp/

Ryan BOWS tattooist:

http://www.yellowblaze.net/e/index.html

This is where my left arm is heading (similar):

http://www.nootrope.net/koi/long.html

Goopd Jap links: http://www.tattoo.ne.jp/

Good Euro links: http://www.tattoo.co.uk/links.htm

Cool Jap stuff: http://www.psyten.com/index2.html

And for Dragons, the LEU family are the most respected in the world!!!!!!! (probably Filip)

http://tattoos.com/jane/tattoo.html

More stuff I checked when looking at my arm Tatt -

http://www.etattoos.net/tattoos_designs_dragon.htm

That'll keep ya busy :D

J

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Colouring: Get black lines. grey(getting allmost black around the lines) and maybe a hint of like yellow-orange-brown. subtle.

Bacground. I would say the swooshy flames and they should be more redish orange but still subtle.

Colour looks gay after some amount of years. Plus you can allways add colour over black. Your call ofcourse. Just my opinion.

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Justin those sites are awesome!
Matt, I'm vetoing the greywash.
Why go grey when you can have so many fabulous colours?
Millions of little old ladies can't be wrong...
I rest my case

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http://www.eccentric.jp/ is off the hook! Check the works by both artists, rememberring they have 2 volumes each.

Justin

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IMO flecks of colour is the best, so subtle that you dont really see it at first, have to have closer inspection. I dunno about the the background, wtf is it going to fit in? haha

BTW, aren't you not supposed to sweat while your tat is healing? Living in aircon 24/7 or something?

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You told me about the three-headed dragon over the whole back, but I thought you were just joking! Last time I doubt anything you say mate - or should that be "I aint never gonna question you pardna..."

I'm sure sleeping is a whole lot of fun. You crazy bastard...

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i think you should do a leopard skin dragon with a little pink in it

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In general black / grey wash will look better for longer as they do not fade like some colours can.

I would continue the whole back in grey / black shade. Could try minor points though, I have a skull and swirls under my arm which is all mainly blacks and greys except for the super bright yellow eyes with a red centre, really stands out!

Cheers Ross

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yes, cool sites justin. purty colours! ..and if you're gonna try and rain on the greywash pde astro, you at least have to suggest some other colour combination! :) (or did you mean just bottle hair colour blue? :p)

...i appreciate all the other ideas, please keep em coming too (what about a pink dragon with leopard skin around it?)

daryl, i thought you would've realised by now that i dont play around! ok, so maybe thats not the best way of putting it. :p ...but what i mean is that when i do summin its usually all or nuthin, no point doing things by halves! as a wise man once said...

karate yes, ok. karate no, ok. karate meh, squish like grape!! (or words to that effect)

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tattoos suck

we say you should think about how you will feel when you are thirty and your kid is asking "daddy why do look like a bikie?" or "Daddy did you enjoy getting ass fucked in prison"

love cobras, gremis and the canadian crew!

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worst thing i have ever seen....Cobras

looks totally gay....cobras

i've been imped...gremis

i love canadian beer...cobras & gremis

canadian boy's tattoo's are better.....cobras & Gremis

your a fucktard....tegan

ill fuck you.....eckford brothers

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I guess thanks are in order gremis/cobras. I've always prided myself in being anti...well, whatever the hell it is you two guys are. your thumbs down means the world to me then, thanks guys!

hope you get impaled by a moose in your travels! or should that be moose'es

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Perhaps I just thought you were joking about the dragon because I was secretly hoping you'd go with the unicorn-dolphin-rainbow idea... ;-P

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I believe a tat that turns your belly button into female genitalia is real classy.

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As per my personal mail:

YOU'RE GROUNDED MISTER!!!!!!

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Thanks for the links Justin, keeped me going for hrs last night and this morning.

While I have heard what Matt wears to into the ring they are the the most colourful pair of pants I have ever seen on a Tattooest, what ever happened to the black or at least blue jeans? I thought this with a black T Shirt was the uniform Tattooest had to wear ;)

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I have to pay Coops some credit. At Xmas lunch one of my Aunts asked me if I really had a tatoo in a snidy tone. After I told her yeah its a unicorn jumping over a rainbow she actually seemed relieve when she saw it.