Show us your ink

[madman79764]

I've got ink from my knees to my neck so it's hard to pick just one piece so for right now. Considering that I have been getting tattooed since 1986 when I go in to get more work done my artist is working on the available space thats left. I'll just go with my 2 latest pieces that I had done back in March.
The neck piece

And the ambigram of my daughter Tesa's name

[Meggers]

I know these arent terribly exciting but I have always loved them. The one on the left, Saille, represents femininity and the one on the right, Ebhadh, represents the woodland realm. Gotta love the Ogham <3

sorry about the closeup of my veiny feet. Whatdoyado?

[BoldHighlander]

Mine is a little something I designed (mostly my own artwork). The words/phrase is "Quo Itinere Ibis?", which roughly translates as "Upon which path will you travel?"....I ended up contacting a professor of languages/Latin from BC, Canada for the translation, as I wanted "Old Latin" (which would've been recognizable in biblical times) for this design.

The lettering I based upon that found in the Gutenberg Bible (though I ended up changing a couple letter fonts to make it easier to read):



...on the inner arm is a drawing I did of a Christ/Satan mirror image. I won't go into the symbolism, as I don't want to be breaking any forum rules, or start a religious discussion that might go down the slippery slope towards thread closure....(the image was taken from my original design, and was not changed in any way by the tat artist):



...the one addition the tat artist did was the clouds of Heaven & the flames of Hell. I really hate needles, so I decided to get it done in one sitting, about 5+ hours worth. My arm felt like hamburger by the time it was done!



Eventually I plan to get it touched up, including a mini-demon & angel encircling the gap on the lower wrist, wrestling each other...symbolic of the struggle between good & evil.

Anyhow, that's the tattoo in a nutshell.

[Laochri MacTalabh]

This is Willy Wallice! Color to come later, maybe?


My Thistle & Claymores This will have color

[Big Mikey]

This is probably my favourite, crossed thistle and claymore with MacGregor tartan on the targe.

[Woodsheal]

I'm a Herman Melville fanatic, especially Moby-Dick. This is my left calf, with the White Whale on the outer side, Captain Ahab on the inner, and filled in with South Seas tribal stuff. The whole thing was done over a two year span. I started with the whale, and kept adding to it!

The illustrations are fromthe famous 1930s set by Rockwell Kent. The quote is "God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!" - chapt. xxxvi

[biblemonkey]

I want to get mine updated from a tribal flower (with an eye) to a Scottish thistle, maybe with some swirls.
Lower back. Yup, the "tramp stamp" was sort of a rite of passage for girls of my generation.

M'Lady You are far too interesting to be safe for married men to be near you...well done!

[Mike_Oettle]

While I doubt that I would ever submit myself to a tattoo needle, I must admit that this artwork is pretty impressive.
My daughter and son-in-law both have quite extensive tattoo work, but it’s just not my scene.
Regards,
Mike

[Meggers]

M'Lady You are far too interesting to be safe for married men to be near you...well done!

.......you better pray your wife doesnt come across this forum and see you say that.

[biblemonkey]

.......you better pray your wife doesnt come across this forum and see you say that.

Actually my wife has a good sense of humor about things like that. I remember right after college when we got married I was in a video scavenger hunt with some of my old college buddies. One of our challenges was to get 12 total stangers to sign one of our weird "Guy's Weekend" shirts. It was getting really late and the only thing open was an all night diner so we asked the girls having a smoke outside to sign our shirts. One of the girls went in to get her sister to sign as well and when she had stepped inside her friend said, "yeah, she and her sister are twins. What could be better than hot twins?!" Before I could stop myself I blurted out, "triplets?!" You could hear me clear as a bell because I was holding the camera. All of my guy buddys ripped on me and threatened to show the video to my wife so they could watch me get in trouble the way they would have had they said something like that within ear shot of their girlfriends. My wife was told the story and all she had to say was, "That's pretty funny! I wish I could have seen the video!"

I thank God every day for a woman who likes my sense of humor and gives me slack for being just a dumb guy sometimes.