o/t tattoo guys. How did u start your sleeve?

Alright, well I guess SOMEONE has to get on here and piss everyone off, so here goes!

I agree with a lot of what's been said so far, especially about planning the piece out; you want the tattoo to flow well. I also agree to think long and hard about sleeves, it WILL change your life.

HOWEVER: All of the guys that are 50 and never got a tattoo because they couldn't figure out what they want???? They never will because they are too worried about what EVERYONE ELSE will think. Life's short, don't take it so fuckin serious! Get stupid tattoos; get silly tattoos, get tattoos that you KNOW you won't like when you're 50. That way when you're 50, you can say "yeah, this is the kind of stuff I was into when I was 18". It kinda shows where you've been and what you've done, what you were like, and even what your sense of humor was like whenever you got the tattoo.

So..... Just to recap:

Life's too short! Get a tattoo!!!

 

kool thanks hot rod to hell, i think the same way your do about it! I have thought about sleeves, long before i was 18, ive always been into tats and sleeves and i plan on lookin more into them and thinkin. Thanks Nate

 

get everything you want as quickly as possible. It pays the bills and I need to finish my roadster.

 

Here's do this one.

 

Nate, I gave it some more thought and realized I may have sounded really harsh in my first post.

I think you should start with a l'il Tweety Bird at your bikini line.

VERY SEXY!

 

How did I get started? I went to my guy, sat down, and he started working on me working around what I already have.
Just being a smart ass. My 2 cents is get a few pieces first then when you have the pieces you like, get filler stuff. Good luck

 

yeah im thinking about going to the guy i want to do it and tell him what i want show him a few drawings ive done up and see if he can work with me and what he can come up with, Haring i think i should get that tweety bird but it may make me look fat!

 

Hah, never thought of it before but maybe it'll hurt too much and you'll wuss out!

Sounds dumb, but I know of two guys who have each got half a tattoo on their forearm, pulled out 'cus of the pain, on which is probably the least painful place on your bod

 

start by studying !!! find pout what style you are looking for !!! then pick an artist you trust and get it started !!!

 

My advice about this is to really think it through man...Tattoos for some are permanent mistakes to being kool...I started to get mine right around the same time. I'm 31 now and a part of me wishes i didnt go so extreme..but i havent stopped yet either...If your plaining on a sleeve..carefully think it out and check out different artist that appeal to you..Every artist has there own style... Make sure its a design that you truly want & something that represents you. Dont feel you have to get the 1st one they draw up for you..Tats are forever and sleeves are very expensive..I know some artist get atleast $100.00 an hr..others well,,you get what you pay for!
Your young and havent settled in life yet,,,but its tough going to job interviews/etc tattooed up and having people constantly eyeing you...Another thing you have to watch for is bacteria..Hopefully the artist follows the proper steps to prevent any types of infection...Also, some people are known to have an allergic reaction to colors..My hand swelled up badly for nearly a week after the guy that was doing mine added the red in...but everbody is different.
Goodluck...

Dirty

 

no sleeves,,but im way more tatted than alot of people with sleeves and youd never know it,cuz im undercover..

...they (the tattoos)are for me...something personal...alot of them are shitty kitchen jobs,,half are shop work and the rest are frebbies...but with everyone i can tell you about and say what was going on in my life at that time i got each one if you ask..... i come in contact with alot of real young guys with full sleeves.. and see those on TV who are sleeved..its funny when you see them with out a shirt, their chest,upper arms and back are usually bare...haha,,...i see kids just out of high school with forearms tatted and young bitches all around them..which is kool..but i dont get tatts to impress people..i get them for me...and BTW this is a WAY OFF TOPIC conversation...


..if yer sleeved ,,that is fucking totally cool...but what im saying is ,,KID,dont get sleeved just cuz its the "COOL THING TO DO",,,if you love tatts,,then get a body suit like the japanese gangsters...THEN work your way out to the SLEEVES...

 

i don't normally buy into these kind of posts,but from the last 10 years of tattooing,i'll tell you what i tell everyone that comes into the shop....i don't get paid unless i tattoo you,but what do you do for a living?....fast food,hmmmmm,are you gonna do that forever?.....you might want to get a little more figured out in your life before you go to crazy.....hows about your name on yo neck

 

One word.... BARBED WIRE.....

 

i am goin in tomorrow to get taz with an earnhart jersey on my neck, cuz taz and nascar are cool! right after that i am gonna buy a lynard skynard album and put my iroc up on jack stands in the front yard while smokin' some grass waitin' for my truck drivin wife to git home to my double wide and gimme "some".

 

Sounds like fun.

 

its always nice to see that some people will give you their opinion when asked (both good and bad) and then others will just type some stupid bullshit to belittle the person asking the question. If you don't agree with the topic, make your OPINION known or keep the stupid sarcastic comments to yourself. A lot of these comments sound like the shit that comes out of my wifes mouth sometimes.... she just can't let things go, always a comment.

Nate... I think most of the positive comments have pretty much said it all: researching an artist is a must. How you plan your tats is pesonal preference... Some of mine I jsut decided I wanted a tat, so I drove down to the guy I had been getting work done from and said "go".. And I don't regret a single one. But, I do have a decent job, and I DON'T have sleeves (yet). However, I have one other point to add. Don't get your first tat in a readily visible area (forearm, forehead, neck, etc...) it would really suck to plan out your sleeve and start at the wrist, to find out that your one of the rare few who's skin REJECTS the ink... and then you are permanently scarred for life.

Oh yea, and for your first tat, GO BIG. If you get a dinky little tat, you will wish you had gone bigger,better and badder..

P.S. and no flash work.. custom is the way to go (I made that mistake for my first).


~Bryant

 

hell, everybody's got tats. go for a genetial piercing.

 

I always laugh at these "you'll have trouble getting a good job" warnings. The real good jobs. . . you wear dress shirts and suits and ties. It's not like if you are an investment banker you have to worry about someone seeing you in shorts and a wife beater.

So it's more like this- get all the tattoo's you want just make sure you go big on education and carreer so you don't have to work someplace where you have to wear a short sleeve polo shirt with a burger king logo on it.

 

I have an white collar job during the day. I wear long sleeves and a tie whether it is 15 or 115 degrees. Keep everything above the wrists and below the collar. Everywhere else is fair game. Luckily I am down to a wife beater and shorts when I am tattooing 5 nights out of the week. Anyhow If you want a sleeve to flow then this is what you do BEFORE you start. You wouldnt belive the amount of time it takes to figure out "filler" to get a slevve from a bunch of seperate pieces.

 

Here's food for thought. I was turning eighteen and weeks ahead of time I planned my first tattoo, just like you. I was adamant about designing it myself. Like most other hamb'ers, I can draw hot-rod type stuff fairly good. I drew a Ford V-8 emblem from a '34 grille ('cause I was always gonna be Ford to the bone, baby! yea right). It had traditional flames surrounding the emblem coming to a point at the bottom with an eight-ball. I had a talented, junkie, tat artist do the job. I was so badass. Now, I'm thirty-one, married, with a baby boy and I still haven't built a the flattie-powered dream rod my tat evoked. I drive a '57 Pontiac and have an "ok" drawn Ford tat (12 years later the white "Ford" script is almost totally blended in with its blue oval) done in fine line. Everything I like now is traditional, thick line stuff. Needless to say, I am getting mine covered soon because it's kind of embarassing. If I had gotten sleeves done then, I would've had the ubiquitous spider-web elbow and a bunch of other silly stuff in fine line that I liked at eighteen. Tattoos have come a long way even since then. But think, think, think this shit through before you go crazy on your arms. And for chrissakes, avoid car-make emblems, you will always end up liking something better than your Fairlane, one day. Good luck, man.

 

Sorry, Nate. I just checked and you have a Comet, not a Fairlane. Anyway, don't do car emblems, dammit!

 

...First you get the logos of the 5 different car clubs you've been in tattooed, one on top of the other, on your hands...

At least that's how they start SLEAVES in Florida...

 

I think the sleeves if done right are sweet and if done wrong look like shit. I'd never have the balls to do it though. I only have 1, I designed it, and it is very personal to me. I'm not sure what else I would get, but I know I don't want anything to detract from the one I have.

Personal Pet peeve for me is green in a tattoo. IMO, it never looks good, no matter how good the design is.

Have you seen the company with an ad in Juxtapoz that sells a nylon "sleeve" shirt? Basically it's panty hose for your arms with tats printed on there so you can be billy bad ass and tell your friends you are "sleeved".

 

Tattoos, what can I say?
I wish I'd never gotten any, it's too late now.
They're easier to get than the clap but much harder to get rid of.

 

like most peple i didnt plan my half sheeve.it started in 79 with a goofy looking moon.then i got another then another then a couple years ago i had Jerry at planet new york in poughkeepsie add some stuff and tie every thing together.now i plan to do the same on my other arm.no plans just what i'm into at that time.

 

just remember this stuff is for life,look around.check out the shops talk to the artists.make sure its clean.dont just get a tat cause you are 18. think about what your style is and take it from there.

 

I had always wanted a tattoo, never got one till I arrived here in California.

The guy who did it, doesn't have a tv, and has never even heard of Johnny Bravo.

Took a little over an hour, and I love it

 

You should get a hold of Roadstar and get him to post some pics of his sons tattoos.

 

hey I've got a johnny bravo tattoo too! but mine was a result of having george dickel, tattoo equipment, and cartoon network in my bedroom. tattooing yourself sucks......the old lady took the digital camera so I can't post a pic.....

 

I started my sleaves in my asscrack, got a tattoo of the Devil's anus, then a wrong way sign, I got the giant virgin mary with a tribute to all my dead homies from eastlos on my back, then some hairy pies with legs coming out my pits, and o yeah tradtion greaser flames on my forearms
Come on guys FOUR PAGES!!!???
If you want a tattoo get it, you figure it out!