The Tattoo Thread

[Dropbear]

Finds from today’s tattoo scrolling:

 

[Dropbear]

This guy might have been better off booking a few hours with a therapist:

 

[Dropbear]

Artwork: 9/10
Odds that model is a high maintenance girlfriend: 11/10

 

[Dropbear]

The perfect camo while hiding in a Japanese bath house!

 

[Dropbear]

Watercolours are really cool, but not for me.

 

[Dropbear]

I really enjoy following a lot of artists whose work I like but would never ever want on me. Like this:

 

[Dropbear]

You went WHERE to get tattooed?

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Dropbear]

 

[robertito]

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Arnathor]

What design are you going for?

 

[Dropbear]

What design are you going for?

I’ve got a few things in mind for me, but mostly I’m just enjoying looking at other people’s stuff and designs that are interesting even if I wouldn’t want them on me.

 

[Dropbear]

I really dig this chick’s pervy stuff, but I gotta wonder about single guys who who think this is a good idea.

 

[Dropbear]

This studio in China does some interesting work:

 

[Grand Potentate]

This studio in China does some interesting work:

Thats incredible

 

[doghouse]

I really need some more ink

 

[Dropbear]

Thats incredible

It really is unique. Definitely worth scrolling their Insta to see the rest of the work.

I really need some more ink

Got anything in mind?

 

[doghouse]

It really is unique. Definitely worth scrolling their Insta to see the rest of the work.



Got anything in mind?

Eh, few things. Mostly trad shit, I basically love WW2 bomber art

 

[Dropbear]

I’m thinking about something neotrad this year. Plague Docs and vampire bats for the whole pandemic theme, but in the lighter neotrad stylised way.

At the same time, I’m really getting into some really dark shit from a couple of artists at the same studio who are doing pervy stuff and genuinely creepy witches, demons and crazy stuff like that. 95% I wouldn’t go through with any of that: wife and kids disapprove and they may be right that it’s creepy for an old dude getting hot young chicks tattooed on him.

 

[Arnathor]

If I get another one it'll likely be the Lion Rampart.

 

[Dropbear]

Millennials are really into this style, known as ‘ignorant tattoos’:

 

[robertito]

A classic....

 

[Dropbear]

Dropbear:

 

[Dropbear]

Details and fine lines:

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Dropbear]

Too much symmetry:





acceptable symmetry:

 

[Dropbear]

Lol.

 

[Jan Libourel]

Good Lord! Who would want to put that pornographic stuff on their hides for the rest of their lives? While I am not anti-tattoo (I've got three), I am very Old School (as you might expect, given my age) about these matters--eagles and other fierce animals, military insignia, hearts with "Mother" on them (a much safer bet than your heartthrob of the moment), coats of arms, etc. Do the people getting the pornographic tattoos give any thought that in 10 or 15 years they may living more normal lives, and what are their kids going to say when they take them to the beach?

Some of those, especially that snake one, would be real dick-wilters for me if I were still young enough to be interested in such matters. (And, yeah, I did my share of carousing with tattooed strumpets back in my wilder, younger days.)

 

[formby002]

Eh, few things. Mostly trad shit, I basically love WW2 bomber art

Nose art.

 

[doghouse]

Nose art.

Quite.

 

[Dropbear]

Quite.

 

[doghouse]

Poor shots, I'm on my bike trainer in garage

 

[Grand Potentate]

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Poor shots, I'm on my bike trainer in garage

Behold the pale rider

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Dropbear]

Nice placement:

 

[Arnathor]

That looks great!

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Dropbear]

I booked a couple of sessions in July with an artist I like. That gives me plenty of time to figure out some subject matter.

This stuff isn’t cheap!

 

[Grand Potentate]

I booked a couple of sessions in July with an artist I like. That gives me plenty of time to figure out some subject matter.

This stuff isn’t cheap!

neat! what are you thinking?