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Memorial tattoo. My young nephew and I just got matching tattoos 🙂
A bit red at the moment but should settle over the next week or two. Lots and lots of personality important and sentimental elements in this.
Made my nephew have his a bit lower 😆
Didn't realise I had a rash/birth mark under my hairline either!!
Nice work
Nice tattoo's
(reminds me to get some more ink too)
Very nice
Wow, that's sharp.
Nice skills. Lovely design.
Very nice
Wassit mean?
Wassit mean?
Where do I start?!
I've got terminal cancer. Always fancied a neck tattoo. I love wings: they signify strength and freedom to me. My 18 years old nephew got wind of this and he decided that the pair of us should get matching tattoos.
The compass? I also love the outdoors and adventure. And my nephew is going to need some direction in his life as his mum (my sister) is also terminally ill (We are both only in our early fifties).
My nephew's older brother died when he was just 3 days old. We have a rose named after him, "Remember Me".
I was brought up largely by my Nan. She died 13 years ago and I still miss her every day. We have a rose named after her, "Bring Me Sunshine".
I designed the tattoo. I wanted it to say "Remember The Sunshine" but the word "The" messed up the balance. So I left it out!
Remember Sunshine... Remember me when I'm gone. Remember the good times. When it's a difficult time, then know that better times will return. Remember the sunshine; forget the rain.
Awesome 👍
How much does that tattoo cost?
Is the price based on labour hour or complexity of the art?
How much does that tattoo cost?
Is the price based on labour hour or complexity of the art?
We paid £450 each. Well, I paid a bit more because I'm the uncle 🙂
I think the price is based on how long it will take (size x complexity I guess). The whole process took about 8 hours or so. That included: the artist spending a couple of hours transforming my sketches into something that would fit properly; making the templates; marking centreline and applying templates; making sure we were happy; tattooing me; setting up with new gear; tattooing nephew; aftercare, etc.
The actual tattooing time was probably 2.5 hours each.
The studio (Salvation Tattoos in Knutsford) have several artists from all over Europe. They win competitions and their order books are overflowing. Still felt like a lot of money, but my last tattoo was done over 30 years ago!
We paid £450 each. Well, I paid a bit more because I’m the uncle 🙂
I have to say the design looks really good. Good story line and meaning. Especially when it also gives you the strength in life. Good job. Must have put in a lot of thought into it.
The tattoo artist has also done a good job too for the before and after care.
Woww ... not cheap at all but again that's the skills people are paying for and it will have to last a lifetime.
2.5hr under the needle ouch! Not to mention the rest of the hour put into preparation.
p/s: slight hijack ... was watching youtube of a tattoo artist in The Philippines tattooing some "guest relation workers" in the, you know that part of the body, and I bet it hurts even more. Not sure what I was watching to be honest, the tattoo (very nice) or something else.
I’m building up my collection, I had the most recent one about three weeks ago, and I’ve got another in a couple of weeks, with a really old one due for a touch-up and the edges re-defining.
This was the first of my latest ones, they represent Odin’s messengers, Hugin and Munin, ‘Thought and Memory’ in English, and they’re for my late partner, who loved having the birds in the garden, and we’d see a pair of ravens flying over quite often…
The hare is an old one, it’s based on the Uffington White Horse, and that’s getting a refresh and touch up, it’s about fifteen, twenty years old, as is the ‘fist’ and the Ogham text, the origami crane’s from last year, and the constellation of Ursa Major and Polaris, my tattoo artist did as a freebie, took her about five minutes.The red mark below the crane is a burn from an industrial heat-gun, nearly messed up a tattoo I’d had done a couple of weeks before, stung a bit, did that!
‘Bikeopelli’ is an old one, the origami unicorn is just a whimsical pop-culture reference, which a couple of blokes on a tube train in London spotted, and got the reference, which pleased me.
These two are from calligraphy by an American, Steve Weiss, who studies Zen and Buddhist calligraphy, the bottom one is just a Zen circle, the top is a character in sōsho style, it’s the character KAN, meaning‘barrier’, defined as the ‘perceptive barrier’ that all students of zen must cross over.
This is also a copy of a piece by Steve Wiess, it reads Mu Nen Mu Sō, an old martial arts saying, meaning ‘no thought, no desires’, a highly developed state of mind where thinking about your opponent or technique has been transcended.
The Ogham text is a quote, it says ‘this too shall pass”.
I’ve got a couple more recent ones, but I’ve not got photos of them yet, and it’s too late to mess around now.
How far in advance did you have to book? I got my first simple one done earlier this year, and as I had the design done they gave it to the apprentice who could have done it that afternoon.
Got an idea for another one but will need time to get the design together with an experienced artist
I think the usual wait is a few months.
We got in a bit sooner as we were happy with any of their artists and then one of them (Gabriel) had a two day cancellation.
Yes, some nutter was planning on being tattooed for two days!!
Very nice ink Stanley. Sorry to hear what you are going through.
@Stanley - nice ink, and it always helps to have an inspiration and a concept for the artist to work with. As far as booking times are concerned, if you’re having to book several months ahead, it’s a pretty good sign that you’ve got a good artist, that clients keep going back, and that they’re sending new clients their way; word of mouth is the best advertising! Best wishes for the future!
So far, I’ve supplied all my designs to my artist, but I’ve got one idea that I’m going to give to Gemma and ask her to come up with the design.
These are my most recent ones:
I’m glad I asked the Q up there. Interesting (if rather sad), and impressive artwork.
Price of em these days is extraordinary, when my ex got her first (just a scorpion) was £10!
Yes, some nutter was planning on being tattooed for two days!!
It's often painfully essential for bigger pieces where there's significant coverage. My current project (knees up to lower back) started off with two days back-to-back of line work. At times it was very tough indeed, but pretty necessary to get all the line work done in a one-r.
Where practical and possible, I tend to do half day sittings. You get plenty of progress that way, but it's not so long that you get the crashing sugar lows of a longer sitting in my experience.
Nice , expensive though but ive only paid for day sessions and I know smaller stuff is actually high priced though. I've got a full japanese bodysuit that took me 52 day sessions, not including countless sessions of lazer to remove my previous 13 tattoos over the course of 2 years, the suit took me 6 years of inking, glad to be finished but miss the needle lol