Well I just got back from day one of my 2 day tattoo marathon. Since February I have been working on my Vine Tattoo.* Until this morning it was just a green line running down my body from just under the left breast down to my left foot with 3 ants on it. It is a symbolization that my heart is connected to the earth. Also every major item on the vine is a representation of something or some one special in my life.
I took a break for the summer because tats and sun don’t mix well. Well I have been saving my money and I went in today for the first 4 hours on the next step of the journey.
You can see the pictures here
The Fairy is for my best friend, we have been best friends since 1986 (Wow that long :eek: ) I am proud to say I stood beside him when he was the first openly gay student in a small rural high school. With me living overseas we don’t talk much now but he always has been and always will be my my brother.
The Frog is for my Mom. For some reason about 15 years ago some one gave my Mom a stuffed frog as gag gift. Well it stuck she has about 20 stuffed frogs in here car and frogs in her house everywhere. So Mom this frog is for you.
The Ants are for my three friends in college. Four engineers all of us too smart for our own good. While I had some problem and didn’t finish my degree I would not have gotten as far as I did with out them.
Tomorrow I will be getting more stuff done and everything should end up connected. So there will be more updates then.
I am excited I am finally getting this done I has been in planning for several years and I had to share with someone and while I don’t post much I think of you guys as my friends.
*I don’t have pics of the whole tat online yet. I don’t know how to show the whole thing without full frontal nudity. While I don’t care, I wouldn’t have had this done if I didn’t want to show it off, I am thinking that the Mods would frown upon this so if anyone has any ideas on how to show off my masterpiece let me know.
If you don’t mind us seeing pictures of your tallywhacker, you can post a link to a page which in turns links to your picture - it’s called the “two-click rule”.
You might be able to get away with simply breaking the URL of your nude photo - putting in some random extra space which will require us to type the URL into an address bar and not just click, but I’d email a mod to be sure that’s kosher. Mod’s emails can be found at the bottom of each forum page.
Just take the photo and censor out the questionable parts of it with Photoshop? Unless the tattoo literally crosses your groin, that should work without losing any part of it.
Right now I am living in Germany but I did grow up is Western PA, Allegheny National Forest area.
Thank you all for sharing in my enthusiasm. I thought it was a unique idea.
I am also getting a rather painful lesson on where nerves are on the body. Maybe I should start a “Ask the guy with a Body Tat” Thread
You know really should be sleeping I have another 6 hours ahead of me tomorrow but having the nerve ending inflamed on half your body make it difficult finding a comfortable sleeping position. I am thinking tomorrow will be even more difficult.
I am thinking that after tomorrow I will figure out a board safe way for show off the full tat.
I was at a tattoo convention a few years ago. An artist who I knew was working on a young lady. She had a washcloth covering (barely) her crotch while the artist worked on a vine that went up a leg and behind the washcloth. I was talking with the woman and the artist and I complimented both on the nice tattoo. She said, “Here’s the best part” and lifted the cloth.
It was kinda surrealistic, yet at the same time it was accurate.
OK guys day two of Tattoo mania is finished. I have to say I hurt. The tat is fine but everything else hurts. It is like I just played QB for the Browns with no pads. I will making a website with NSFW security features tonight so those that want can see the full tat. Right now my whole body is shaking and I can barely type this.
Ok I got the update done with several new pics. Some of them are not NSFW so I linked to a buffer page before going to the Flickr Page. Here is a text run down of what I got done.
A drop of Blood: Right where the vine enters my body I have a Drop of Blood. This is for my Aunt Marsha. Several years ago she was in a car accident and died. She was the probably the person that most shaped my spiritual self. At least I know I have a guardian angel.
A Spider. This is for my father. You might be thinking that I don’t think much of my father but you would be wrong, I think highly of spiders. Spiders like my father do a lot of good in this world but are kind of poisonous and misunderstood. My Father always tried to do the best thing but there were times when he went about it the wrong way. Oh yeah I was afraid of my father growing up. So he is my spider.
The Marijuana leaf. This is for my oldest brother. He is my Harley riding, whiskey drinking, pot smoke, hillbilly philosopher brother. My brother got me stoned for the first time. He helped my change out my first clutch and helped me out when I was was on the bottom. So he gets the Tat of Mary Jane. It is on my butt because he like to moon people and he can be a bit of an ass.
The leaves. Well these are just leaves for now I plan the write on them though. I want to get nieces and nephew to write their names and I will have them in there, important dates of things that happen in my life.
Here is the link to my buffer page
Of course this in not complete, things need to get connected and I have some more large items to place on it.
Acorns with comedy and tragedy on them - for my love the theater
A flower with 4 bees around it for my best friends in high school
I want to connect it to the dragon tat on my shoulder.
I also want to bring it around my neck to form a necklace with a dream catcher on it.
Well I hope you guys all enjoy my tat. I has been a long and painful 2 days. I don’t recommend tattoo marathons to any one and I won’t be doing it again. 2-3 hours sessions for me now. I am glad I did it but I am glad that is it over.
If any one as any suggestions for future thing I could add on or any questions I would be pleased to answer them.
Uh, not that I care about the (not) nudity, but just to make you aware, if you scroll through the pictures in your original link (in the OP), those new photos are there. Maybe they can be moved from that part of the site somehow?
I wish I needed a towel that long, if I half one half the length that would have been fine, barely
Total time so far is 15 hours. I am thinking at least 10 more hours to get it how I want it but it will never be finished.
I am thinking of setting money aside in my will to have my hide skinned, tanned and given the the nearest living relative.
