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Der Tattoo Thread.
ackblom12:
Shawn Porter continues sharing his stories, this time about hs mentor, Jack Yount.
SPC: Jack Yount
The end of the article includes links to a couple of other Modblog entries about Yount and I highly recommend checking them out.
ackblom12:
Shawn talks about the very first ModCon this time around.
SPC: ModCon One 1999
Welu:
I'm curious how many people here have designed their own tattoos? As in drawn it on to paper and handed it to an artist and been all, "Put this on my skin."
Jace:
I find, more or less, most of the artists I've worked with are not fans of that style of tattooing. They are all generally artists too, so (to me at least) it seems like sort of a slap in the face to them to basically say "I just need you as the tool to put this on me."
When I got my knight sleeve done, I gave the artist (who'd done 5 tattoos on me prior) the front of a Warhammer box and said "something along these lines." He drew a beautiful piece of art and was super excited to work on it. He charged me $400 for 11 hours of tattooing, criminally low when the hourly shop rate is anywhere from $75-100. After one of the sessions on my arm, a guy came in wanting a sun with sunglasses tattooed on his elbow (no creativity really needed at all from the tattoo artist), he was quoted $120 for it. Keep in mind this is after he had literally just taken $200 for like 6 hours work on something where he had basically complete control.
ackblom12:
I'll just back what Jace said and add that generally I think it's a fairly bad idea to not let the artist have their own say in what to do with a piece. For one, they're going to have a much better idea how a piece will work with the canvas available.
But I've got a quick question for folks. My ears are currently at 1" (25.5mm) and trying to find 1 1/16" (aka 27mm) single flare glass plugs or eyelets, but I'm having issues. I can only find a couple of custom orders on BAF in that size, which just about doubles the cost, and nothing else anywhere that sells retail. I'm thinking about stretching to 1 1/4" over the next several months and I'm currently at 25.5mm. The next size I can reliably find is 28.5mm. There is no way in hell I'm going to attempt a 3mm stretch, especially at this size. Anyone know of a place with the jewelry I'm needing?
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