Started my custom half sleeve tattoo today

[-Alex-]

Finally got to tattooist today and got my line work done, he did it freehand and it looks amazing can't wait for it to be coloured. Going to get it REALLY bright :)
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/679/19244127256962500215527.jpg

[Dave-B]

That looks nice :) take long?
When i got mine coloured it take 3 hours but mine isnt as big as that

[-Alex-]

Took him 25 minutes, he specializes in Japanese so he took to it like a bird to water :)

[CHIP]

Looks good dude. I'd love to get a full sleave on my left arm. But i have a fox tattoo there (due to my riding) and would want that to fit in with it. Never come across anything that has given me some half decent idea's.

[gouldy87]

how much more line work do you have to do?

is it going to be trad jap work and come up onto your chest?

[coleman258]

Looks good dude. I'd love to get a full sleave on my left arm. But i have a fox tattoo there (due to my riding) and would want that to fit in with it. Never come across anything that has given me some half decent idea's.

You got a pic of the fox tattoo? Im after something to do with riding.

[-Alex-]

Looks good dude. I'd love to get a full sleave on my left arm. But i have a fox tattoo there (due to my riding) and would want that to fit in with it. Never come across anything that has given me some half decent idea's.
Cheers mate.
Should get yourself to a good tattoo shop they should have some ideas on how to base it :)
how much more line work do you have to do?

is it going to be trad jap work and come up onto your chest?
I think thats it, nah I think I'm going to leave it as is, always room to extend it though! :)

[kcsaxo]

looks lovely, glad you aint oriental as you will scare the local chinatown crew to hell. or get an ass kicking for sporting gang tatts :)

[-Alex-]

looks lovely, glad you aint oriental as you will scare the local chinatown crew to hell. or get an ass kicking for sporting gang tatts :)

Cheers!
I won't be going into china town then! haha

[gouldy87]

Cheers mate.
Should get yourself to a good tattoo shop they should have some ideas on how to base it :)

I think thats it, nah I think I'm going to leave it as is, always room to extend it though! :)

mine was very hard to match up when it was getting extended every few months and i wish i had gone for it all doing in one go to save hours of matching up. looking good though mate

[-Alex-]

mine was very hard to match up when it was getting extended every few months and i wish i had gone for it all doing in one go to save hours of matching up. looking good though mate
I don't think I will be getting it extended anyway, this is perfectly large for me :)
Cheers bud, should look better when coloured :)

[mendy]

looks good mate cant wait to see more pics. im into my tattoos mayb il post some up sometime. got a dragon at top of arm then koi on lower arm still need few hours to bring it all together

[djmartin]

dont forget the green colour goes like a crappy light blue colour the older you get.

so choose your colours carefully or in 40years time the tatoo could look shite!

top workmanship there though!

[-Alex-]

looks good mate cant wait to see more pics. im into my tattoos mayb il post some up sometime. got a dragon at top of arm then koi on lower arm still need few hours to bring it all together
Im thinking a Koi for my next tattoo :)
Get some pics up (:
dont forget the green colour goes like a crappy light blue colour the older you get.

so choose your colours carefully or in 40years time the tatoo could look shite!

top workmanship there though!
Well I'm thinking the dragon will be blue fading into purple for the belly. So will be green but I plan to get it touched up every 5 years or whenever it needs it :)

Cheers mate cannot wait for the colour :)

[mendy]

i will once i got a photo hosting account. yeah i started with just the dragon then thought id go for it all. dont want to hi jack ur thread tho

[D--R--E--W]

I could see alot of bright green, orange and red going into that...

should look good when done man

[-Alex-]

I could see alot of bright green, orange and red going into that...

should look good when done man
Chances are it will.
Aslong as it is bright and looks like a work of art instead of what people portray tattoos to be like lol

[D--R--E--W]

I'm covered mate ;) whole back is done and i have my right sleeve nearly finished and its connected to my back aswell

[-Alex-]

I'm covered mate ;) whole back is done and i have my right sleeve nearly finished and its connected to my back aswell

Wa-hey
You'll know where I'm coming from then! lol
Nice how many hours have you had roughly then?

[LewisR]

looks awesome that mate when i had all mine done i just used to want to keep just the outline because they always look wicked at first :)

[mendy]

when is your next session alex? think we may need to start a show us ur tats thread :)

[-Alex-]

looks awesome that mate when i had all mine done i just used to want to keep just the outline because they always look wicked at first :)
Cheers mate, yeah I must admit it looks really good just as an outline :)

when is your next session alex? think we may need to start a show us ur tats thread :)
January 16th is my next :)
There is already one, but I tried searching and couldn't find it at all lol

[Evorilium]

Im after something like that - how much would I be looking at?

[-Alex-]

Depends on your artist, mine was £60 for the line work, then it will be another £200 on top for colours and detailing. Or near enough.

[stinkycheese]

Took him 25 minutes, he specializes in Japanese so he took to it like a bird to water :)

You're either a Borrower, or he is super fast!

[Maxamus]

Looks good alex! :y:

I just finished my half sleeve last sunday it took 21 hours over 4 sittings to complete. ill get some pics of it up in this thread when I get home.

Keep us updated!

[D--R--E--W]

Wa-hey
You'll know where I'm coming from then! lol
Nice how many hours have you had roughly then?

for all my back and arm and bits being redone i would say roughly 45-50 hours...

its alot but spread out the longest i had to sit was 4 and a half hours for my centre back piece. dont EVER get a tat on the bottom of your back.. OH it hurts like a mutha fucka

[Maxamus]

Depends on your artist, mine was £60 for the line work, then it will be another £200 on top for colours and detailing. Or near enough.

Wow thats a bargain imo I paid £850 for mine :) My artist was amazing looking at the finished result it was money well spent. and I will not let anyone else tattoo me from now on!

[D--R--E--W]

Wow thats a bargain imo I paid £850 for mine :) My artist was amazing looking at the finished result it was money well spent. and I will not let anyone else tattoo me from now on!

Think i have only paid around £600 in total but the guy hat done most my back and arm is my mate so i gt it cheaper

[-Alex-]

You're either a Borrower, or he is super fast!
I'm about 6 foot 5 inches so not really a borrower :P
Looks good alex! :y:

I just finished my half sleeve last sunday it took 21 hours over 4 sittings to complete. ill get some pics of it up in this thread when I get home.

Keep us updated!
5 hours 15 minutes each jesus christ you must have been in agony !
for all my back and arm and bits being redone i would say roughly 45-50 hours...

its alot but spread out the longest i had to sit was 4 and a half hours for my centre back piece. dont EVER get a tat on the bottom of your back.. OH it hurts like a mutha fucka
Wow that impressive take it you know the artist pretty well now then? lol
Wow thats a bargain imo I paid £850 for mine :) My artist was amazing looking at the finished result it was money well spent. and I will not let anyone else tattoo me from now on!
Yeah I cannot fault my artist at all, for the price you pay!
Aslong as your happy with the finished result you can't complain, it's with you for like so money well spent :)

[D--R--E--W]

yeah mate as i said he is my mate lol

[Mark51]

BUMP

any finished pics of this?

[-Alex-]

BUMP

any finished pics of this?
Just replied in your thread mate ;) haha. Gonna get some pics up abit later, had some more work done yesterday :) But since this thread has been made only been back once for lack of money, but I plan to have it finished very soon, been strapped for cash lately though :(

[Mark51]

whats it cost so far?

[-Alex-]

So far I'm at £110 with roughly another 5-6 sessions left.