I love to do asain style dragons.... this was one of my favorites I got to do :)



As for the bottom of the hand, it isn't so much that it can't be done as it is VERY difficult to get to heal properly and "stay" . ink tends to suffer from something called "cellular migration" and it is pretty nasty on fingers, palms, and the soles of your feet and once again that is IF you can get it stay at all... there are techniques that can be employed during the tattooing process which do increase the probability of it holding up, however whether or not it still looks pretty in even a month or two depends on how little you use your hand and how infrequent you can manage even opening and closing it for a good while)....


Someday I will increase the value of the sculpts a great deal for you my friend.... unfortunately you will probably have to wait until I'm dead, even if I do foster some acclaim in my lifetime, as that is typically when most artists work is worth anything to write home about-LoL

I must say that I acredit my vocabulary entirely to the fact that I poured over Tolkien novel's, Discworld novels, played text-based MUDs and RPG's loooong before there was such a thing as "voice acting" in video games, all well before my comprehension was appropriately developed for such.... I remember always having a pocket dictionary with me for these endeavors as a young child because it drove me nuts not knowing what words meant..... I still have quite the collection of handy little pocket dictionaries might I add.....I was a strange kid... I never grew out of any of that come to think of it.... including the "being strange" part :P



Thanks for your kind words friends but in truth I typically am, in most respects, a complete klutz and embarasment to myself.... clumsy doesn't even do it justice... I'm like a walking hazard... communication, speaking and art are the few respects were I tend to shine on occasion.... otherwise I'm something of a sentient trainwreck with interesting hair.

@ Dice: Love of the tat tis the seed from which all ink is born my dear :) I once thought I would never EVER (even working as artist) want to get a tattoo.... now the only spots not adorned with something are my right arm and most my torso (saving em for few particular artists with very long waiting lists).... The thing that always turned me off about them was the permanence of the whole thing.... Once your around em long enough though, you start to realize (especially working as an artist) they are really not quite as permanent as you think, and when that happens apprehension disappears and one day it just seems like the thing to do for the hell of it. Next thing you know your freakin' hooked-LoL

I don't what it is about trophies.... in theory I think they are stupid... just plain silly and pointless really.... but I will be the first to admit to my elation when I earn one... why? well that is what I don't know I guess..... I love that it is linked to my facebook and everyone one of my clients whom have friended me to see my tattoo work get an aggravating update on their smart-phone of my latest digital accomplishment :)

Anyhoo.... finally at the end of Tales of Graces F, or so it seems... tying up loose ends and side-quests and whatnot... man, I gotta say, this game has not let me down at all yet... even the end-game-sidequesting is proving to be awesome fun and adequately challenging, yet not so much so that I have been tempted to look up one thing yet... just enough to keep me heavily engaged

In other news Final Fantasy Friday this week marked to procuring of two new eidolons in FF 4 CC. Asura and Leviathan and, might I add, they proved to be hella-difficult... I decided to fight asura first before getting reflect... dumb move....

Lastly I am currently in the process of attempting to thwart the extermination of our pointy eared friends in suikoden.... I forgot how amazing this game was...

I feel like I'm spoiling myself with great gaming lately, and it is lovely :)

thanks man! I was pretty stoked about it! I appreciate you taking a gander :)

That is as visually valuable as forum threads come.... thank you so much :)

PS: For anyone else seeing this of remote interest in this stuff, this is proving to be a perverbial treasure trove of imagery here guys... Check these suggestions out if your interested in the like.

Yea "traditions elite" is the name of the shop I work at..... don't ask what it means.... I didn't name the place... and to this day, I still can't figure it out...

Hey guys, I made the news!!! Sorry to create a throw-away topic like this, but well.... I was excited... I was never on the news... well for anything good that is... LoL

http://wnep.com/2012/04/27/electric-city-tattoo-convention/

I had to work a convention yesterday and they interviewed me and used a segment of it to kick off the broad-cast.... and holy-heck do I look bad-LoL.... still fun for me none-the-less

Ok, and so that ends the pointless throw-away post. You can all ignore this now.

Freakin' awesome site, can't thank you enough!


Stellar suggestions! I've been browsing minitokyo for hours! Many thanks :)

Mondo thanks for the advice Aeolus!! You actually made things easier because HSotD is one of the shorter series on my list and what I was initially inclined to check out first anyhow, so I will actually do that one first before moving on the magical girl stuff...

Berserk vs. Slayers vs. Magic Knight Rayearth eh..... that is a tough one.....  I would say Magic Knight Rayearth is definately the weakest of the three but if you dig nineties fantasy anime as much as I do you'll love it all the same :)..... Berserk is one of my favorite series of all time, though as Aeolus said, waiting for another installment of the manga is rough.... luckily playing catch up takes a little bit if you pace yourself seeing as how there are like 20 volumes of manga beyond the covered story arc of the series.... Berserk also sports some of the most shocking twists and turns in a fantasy anime plot I've ever witnessed, as well some of my all-time favorite characters and battles, so I suppose I'm highly partial to berserk.... Slayers is great, don't get me wrong, I've watched all but the very last season and have enjoyed all of it, but its just no Berserk to me... no sir...

My final word on the matter is this... if you want something more lighthearted and traditionally "anime", go Slayers.... if you want something that is gonna really grab you, take you for a more serious  adventure and are in the mood for something darker and deeper go Berserk. Either way watch both Berserk and at least the first 3 Seasons of slayers and then at the end of it, don't forget MKR

As for dougram and dancouger..... I got nothing.... not familiar I'm afraid

I'm looking to acquire/expand on my image library of high resolution anime and RPG illustration and graphics.... I love collecting wallpapers, sprite graphics, original game illustration et cetera..... Particularly the wallpapers because the resolution is usually good enough for me to make poster prints for my house and tattoo room.... and so I was wondering if you guys had any decent resource suggestions for the aquisition of such. I have naturally already done google searches for "rpg walls" and "anime wallpaper" and the like and browsed a number of sites but there are A LOT of them. So do you guys have any go-to places for this type of stuff?

I unfortunately I have to see doctors far too often and they are well aware of my condition... or more accurately a side effect of how  hormonally retarded I am as a result of my condition.... I was diagnosed with, when hospitalized for a week a ways back..... ready for this one.... "Non-renal metabolic alkalosis, with a standard anion gap hypothyroidism, indicating failure and malabsorption".... long story short, most foods are like poison to me, my diet is limitted as hell, I can't get it up, I lost like 60 pounds, and my central nervous system occasionally feels like there is a cannon being shot through it...... all that aside, the worst part is I have to take a loop diuretic in dosages twice that of my 87 year old grandmother or I swell up like an italian sausage to the point where I experience pulmonary edema..... I have to see two seperate sets of doctors because the ones in my area are only competent enough to take my bloodwork every few weeks, while the others I correspond with are specialists a state away.... They claim that ultimately what has really occured is not hypothyoidism per se' but more or less my thyroid "shut off" and most of its functions in regard to digestion had been assumed by my hypothallamus.

..... now given all that, you can see that erections really are the least of my troubles.... quite honestly I've found my complete lack of sex-drive to be awesome.... you have any idea how much money I've saved without having a girlfriend for the last 3 years? or how much time I've been able to devote to my career and gaming? in other words, the way I see it now, the loss of my ladibo has been the only bonus is this mess...

...let this be a lesson to all the kiddies reading this by the way... take care of your body.... don't abuse the hell out of your body when your young and you won't feel like your 26 with your 65th birthday on the horizon....

But that is enough of that, back on course, the topic is not "Klyde's Pickle" and I don't mean to turn it into such :)

Strikes my fancy indeed.... in fact it put me over the edge, I think now is finally the time for me to get an x-box....Initially I thought that Tales of Vesperia was the only undeniable appeal of the system for me.... after hearing about this and few others on the Live network I think I'm sold

Wow, no kidding.... I don't know my ass from my elbows when it comes to much outside the realm of your JRPG.... particularly anything that has to do with company lineage.... now, given that is the case, I'm even more impressed with Odin Sphere whose visual style ranks amongst my favorites in recent history. The illustrations for that game actually help motivate me to get to work on the days when drawing does in fact feel like work to me.... I wish someone would come to me for an odin sphere tattoo.... I think I would do it for next to free just to get to do it....

Thanks for the advice my friend! Figuring out where to start with some of these series is the hardest part :) I'm going heed your words and start my magical girl adventure tonite! hahaha... that sounded dirty


Though I'm not one for humor much, desert punk was one I wanted to check out too and I like your tastes Bytor.... think that one is going on the list now too...

I have always watched anime via a "research and then purchase" order of operation... thus I was not exposed to alot of stuff that made it to cable television.... cowboy bebop was one series I actually never saw believe it or not.... I know nothing about it... and while its on my "to get to" list, there are a number of titles before that one....

As for the time being I'm now watching Utawarerumono (I wonder if I spelled that right......) and though I almost gave up after a few episodes and wrote it off, I'm glad I didn't. I'm about 11 eps in and really digging this at the moment. Great one as far the fantasy stuff is concerned.

I'm also rewatching Sailor Moon-LoL! I'm also 11 eps in on that as of today and not really digging it.... the appeal of this one is purely nostalgic to me as it was the first anime I was ever exposed to.... Never did watch past season 2 though, so I guess I've got something to look forward to... then again maybe I don't.....

On deck I have Saiyuki, High School of the Dead, Clannad, Murder Princess, Gai Rei Zero, Eureka 7, Revolutionary Girl Utena and Magical Girl Lyrica......something or other.... full title escapes me at the moment..... anyhow, any suggestions as to what to dig into next out of that bunch?