hey y’all do you want to see a dragon that i drew

of course you do here he is

It’s been a hot minute but I finally got impulsive and rich enough and got this bad boy on Tuesday

[ID 1: a simplistic drawing of a dragon. /end ID].

[ID 2: the same dragon but now as a tattoo on a white person's arm. /end ID].

Indigenous Ink 

Lurch, The Addams Family

by Gillian @ Nirvana Tattoo Studio, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

my first tattoo!! it’s a bit bloody rn but feels fine. thank you @foulserpent for designing it!

(heres the art!) 

[commission info]

http://instagram.com/cochlea1313

©Mio Im

Ondina #ondina #koi #fernandovicente #oilpainting #tattoo #koitattoo https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQRX-an3o3/?igshid=1bd44sus9w77a

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj5BztgH6Oc/

I wanna show off my aro arrow! From the concept art to the final tattoo,it meant a lot to my demiro self to get!

Mods Note: Wow!!!!!! This looks really amazing!!! I love it so much!! You are making me want to get such a tattoo too!!

Wow💚💚💚

Melina Casteletto -  Led’s Tattoo - São Paulo, Brazil

en ee ways what if a few years down the line they get matching tattoos

Earlier I saw this amazing art by Thatmightyheart of Crowley having a moving/living snake tattoo

Then later i saw THIS post with the most perfect creature of all time, the lancetfish

And well, guess who else doesn’t have a visible demon animal other than Crowley! Dagon’s pretty buttoned-up but everyone’s gotta party sometime

Awesome 💓💓💓

why are the artists on ink master allowed to say shit like “i hate tattooing dark skin” like just bc you’re bad at your job doesn’t mean you get to be openly racist

indigenous artists have been successfully tattooing dark skin for thousands of years & here comes your white ass saying tattoos aren’t made for dark skin 👀

i love this. i do. and i’ll comment on it every single time.  the very first artist i went to get tattooed was in Utah and the guy told me straight that color wouldn’t look good on my skin because it wouldn’t show up.

second guy i went to was in California and he said basically the same thing.  Color wouldn’t look good on or show up on my skin. blah blah blah…

so months later, i’m at a tattoo convention in LA and i walk past a booth featuring tattoo artists from Taiwan and i see this BEAUTIFUL phoenix that’s just… amazingly brightly colored and beautiful and the guy asks if i’m interested and i said something about it not looking as good in black and grey and he asked why i don’t just get it in color and i said the color won’t show and he PLEADED with me to let him show me he could do it.

and he did.

and it’s fucking amazing and bright after almost 8 years now of being on my skin… all the pinks and teals and yellows and oranges… all of it.  Still vibrant.

i went all the way to Taiwan years later just to get more added to it, and my leg done as well.

now, as soon as someone tries to tell me that they can’t put color on my skin, i disregard them and write them off.  Sometimes (depending on how stuck up they can be) i go ahead and lift my shirt and show them my side (and now legs, and now arms) that are fully colored and vibrant and BEAUTIFUL. 

and i hope it sets into their brain that just because THEY can’t do it, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.  

Also… some of the people who have put the best color on me have been people who don’t normally work with dark skin (being from different countries where skin tones might be darker, but maybe not as dark as me) but they’ve been willing to TRY and they always succeed and that means a lot.

There is a whole shop of black artist in Atlanta that are dedicated to tattooing darker skin. The shop is called City of Ink. The owner is a black tattoo artist named Miya Bailey. It’s been open for 22+ yrs. check em out.

Drawing of Jonathan Brewster and Doctor Einstein (sorry not sorry😜😜 for all the pictures of them - I’m still working on my tattoo design).

I love the color and outcome of Doctor Einstein  ❤ (when it comes to Jonathan all I can think of is the song “(S)he’s a maniac…”😜)

Made at the 13th of January 2019

I like the new one more than my other tattoo design for these two idiots 😁💕

Drawing of my soon to be (second) tattoo😍😍

I’m still unsure about the word🙃

That’s how it’ll look (colored) 💖🐢

I'm scared but also excited 😄

Krystel Ivannie for Color Conspiracy @Santurce, Puerto Rico

Beautiful♥