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bluegargantua ([personal profile] bluegargantua) wrote2005-11-28 12:24 pm
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Tattoos -- Now in COLOR!

Hey,

As I mentioned last week, I got my taotie tattoo colored in.



From the front:



And from the (left) side:





The tattoo isn't fully healed yet (still a few crusty spots), but it's pretty much good to go. I really like the molten look, the oranges have really come out a lot better than it first looked. The whole process took around 3.5 hours to finish. The artist and I decided that the best way to do it was to put down the red, then go back and do the orange, then go back and do the yellow and then finish up with the eyes. That was absolutely the right way to do it (as opposed to completely coloring in one section and then moving to another one). True, each time he went back over an area it hurt a little bit more, but there was less area to color in each time. He really flew over the piece.

Still...that last half hour was pretty agonizing.

But it's all over with and I'm really happy with it.

later
Tom

[identity profile] sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. Looks like it's healing nicely.

Verrah nice

[identity profile] heronsilvr.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Great looking Tatt man :)

[identity profile] harrison-ripps.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
This remains one of the coolest tattoo concepts / executions I've ever seen.

Nifty!

[identity profile] ladypantherrr.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice work, man...

[identity profile] owlsamantha.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Very nice.

[identity profile] taura-g.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
As I said last week, AWESOME.

I think it came out great.

[identity profile] gentlesamurai.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
holy sweetness batman!!

[identity profile] woodwardiocom.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
-Cool!

[identity profile] sunspiral.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Lookin' good!

[identity profile] cathijosephine.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Beautiful!

[identity profile] msbutterpecan.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh!

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice!

Wish I had known you'd be there...you gotta tell me these things for support purposes!

[identity profile] fnoxib.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember way back when you had the outline done... oh, so much pain... so much time...

but damn, boy, it looks fricken awesome!

Gonna get a matching one for your penis, too?

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[identity profile] usagijer.livejournal.com 2005-11-29 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
that IS his penis!