Photos don’t quite do it justice

Insanely happy with how it turned out!

Healed Ganesha thigh tattoo by Adam Sky, San Francisco. About 20 hours of work. The tattoo is fully healed in this photo.
Ganesha is the Hindu deity associated with wisdom, new beginnings, and removing obstacles. In one traditional account, Parvati created him to guard her door while she bathed. A confrontation with Shiva led to his beheading, and Shiva restored him to life with an elephant’s head.
There are several legends about his broken tusk. In one popular telling, his pen broke while he was transcribing the Mahabharata, so he snapped off his own tusk and kept writing. A pretty serious commitment to finishing a project.

Custom Tattoos by Adam Sky
San Francisco, California

Black and grey work by me, SSAB, at Mama Ink in Seoul. Dark shading in the skull contrasts with the fine wing lines and open space around the butterflies.

First ever tat, fucking love it!!

Hi guys, I've been getting a tattoo designed for a few months now and found the artist a bit hard to communicate with; for eg: I asked for blue highlights and he gave me red; I asked for three small adjustments, and he only did one, asked for the remaining two, and he only did one, etc, had a facetime with him and struggled for 45mins because we just cant seem to communicate, i'd ask him for a change and he would just do something else entirely. Thought we had come to a final design and ended the call, once he sent through the rendered edit I didn't like it, there is just one angle on a prominent strand of hair that looks unrendered and bad to me. Can I just go to the tattoo appointment (in a few weeks) and try to communicate this adjustment in person or would that annoy him more? We are currently on edit 7 or 8+ I've given him so many references (its a character) and he just doesn't seem to get that i want it to look like the character's hair? Idk, any advice would be helpful. Cheers.

EDIT: I really do like the tattoo and want to get it, but I don't want to be looking at this one part of it that looks silly to me, i'm worried that if I ask for another edit over text he won't understand and get annoyed and tell me to go somewhere else, so just wanted to add that, thanks for the advice

When I got my first teeny tiny little bitty tattoo eleven years ago, the artist said he’d see me in a few years for a sleeve. I said that won’t be me, I don’t want big tattoos

Well that artist retired about five years ago, but he was right, just off by a few years and half an arm because he didn’t account for how stubborn I get when someone tells me what to do. Here’s the half sleeve I got from AJ Jensen yesterday.

And because everyone has asked IRL, I’m going to preemptively answer it here: No, I don’t plan to have it colored in at this point. I really like the black and grey. If that changes, I will let my son pick the colors. He’s 3 and was excited to see me come home with a “coloring book arm” yesterday, which is a dream come true for me because how fun is that? Once it heals, I’ll hand him some washable markers and let him have at it!

Half bottom is already healed just had to do little session to finish the top of the wings

Really like how the geometric patterns blend into the botanical elements here. The tiny ladybugs and birds are such nice little details that you might not notice at first glance.

done by innerbloom.ink at True Canvas in Vienna, Austria

Part fresh, part healed

Pink, purple, blue, and orange flowers trail across the shoulder and upper arm. Small berries and bees are tucked between the leaves, with thin stems linking the details. The style is colourful botanical illustration with fine linework.

by Veroni.ink at INTO Tattoo Studio in Wien, Austria

What you think?

Got a Raven with floral a little over a week ago, healing up pretty great. Feel like it really meshes with with my Plague Doc☺️

I really want to get my first tattoo and I have a design that's super personal and has a lot of emotional significance to me for over half my life.

However, I have a lot of worries and Christian guilt (I'm still a devout Christian so no bashing my faith please) about getting something permanent on my body.

For the people who regret their tattoos or worried about regretting them, what makes you feel the ways you do?

These fine-line figurative tattoos show an embracing pair above a second intimate scene. Fine black outlines define the figures, clothing and gestures.

by Alice aka alice.asphyxiia at INTO Tattoo Studio in Wien, Austria

Japanese ink-wash inspired bamboo tattoo. Love how it bends with the arm, as well as how the bold brushstrokes contrast with the softer, fading details..

Done by thommesen_ink at True Canvas in Vienna, Austria