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 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:44 am Post subject: My first ever tattoo, wadda ya think? |
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Started last June, took seven sessions and half day to touch-up, finally finished a Month or so ago
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Nice, but it looks like it hurt. Where did you get it? |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Pretty awesome! |
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| lfmn16 wrote: | | Nice, but it looks like it hurt. Where did you get it? |
Hahahaha on the leg of course! (Sorry could not help myself!)
Who is the artist? I'm not a huge fan of biomech, but I like that its bike-ish.
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| on the other site i posted that it didnt have that much depth, but looking at it on my home computer i take it back. i was looking at it on my phone. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:33 am Post subject: |
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Thanks all 
Artist is a UK guy, Jim Gambell from Ritual Art Tattoo.
I would post a link to his portfolio but there's little point as it's so far out of date! |
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Its alright, but you're saying 8 total sessions? Like how many hours total? That seems rediculous for that tattoo....
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Murv
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Hard to say really, sessions used to start at 11:00am but it was usually nearly an Hour to get set up and to start and then finish at anywhere between 7 and 9 pm.
There was a bit of time out for chatting and talking to new clients too, so probably in the region of 50 Hours or so |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| 12am to 7pm is 7 hours, and seven sessions makes out 49 hours, as you said... So with a minimal charge of 100$ a hour, that's 4900 bucks for this. |
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This. That's just insane.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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50 hours for the tattoo in the picture above? Like 3000 minutes? 2 consecutive days of tattooing? To tattoo the tattoo in the above pic.. Surely you jest.
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No, no joke. I take it you all think it took a bit long? 
There is a lot of detail in there that doesn't come out so well in the picture but it was slow going.
It cost me £2800.00 in the end (£400.00/day) but it's difficult when you're going for your first tattoo to know what's reasonable.
I researched the artist, liked his biomech work and didn't want to shop just based on price so went with it. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| 50 hours for just a half calf piece. Wow. I was told by an artist that he could do my back to thighs in 40. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Murv wrote: | | I researched the artist, liked his biomech work and didn't want to shop just based on price so went with it. |
Ultimately, that is the right approach - as long as you can afford it.
On the other hand, you will not likely find a slower artist than that. |
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