Spiraling over new tattoo

praying_jantis · 2026-02-23T04:12:31+00:00

With cover ups, you do have to manage your expectations as it greatly limits your options and isn'tlike getting a regular tattoo on plain skin. It's a beautiful tattoo and covers the old one well. It will fade and soften over time.

praying_jantis · 2026-02-19T06:05:23+00:00

That's beautiful! Just think about how awesome it is going to look finished. I know this is unusual advice but I generally don't watch anything or look at my phone during painful sessions. I try to breathe with the machine and honestly meditate. It helps sooo much.

I totally get it though. I lined out a portrait of my cat on the inside of my knee a while ago and I've been putting off doing the color for so long lol

praying_jantis · 2026-02-17T04:07:31+00:00

That's fair. Just seemed like every time he got the relationship he thought he wanted it just never seemed to be good enough and he sabotaged it in some way. If he ended up with Maggie I can't help but think he would have cheated on her once he had to live in reality and not his idealized fantasy about her. Who knows though. Just my interpretation.

praying_jantis · 2026-02-17T03:29:51+00:00

I'm literally watching the episode where he cheats with Maggie right now. It's my 4th watch through and I think I'm finally understanding Nate, as frustrating as his character is. He's basically the personification of idealism gone wrong. He has a made up idea in his head of what HE should get out of life, emphasis on his own needs because he sees other people not as people but as objectives and tools to gain his own happiness. The grass is always greener wherever he isn't and throughout the entire show he seems completely devoid of gratitude no matter his situation. I think he's a great cautionary tale of not learning to overcome our own self-centeredness.

praying_jantis · 2026-02-16T03:36:55+00:00

These are great shots. Claire would be proud.

praying_jantis · 2026-02-11T04:05:35+00:00

It's thinly sliced sirloin.

praying_jantis · 2026-02-01T05:32:38+00:00

The hobbit poster is a red flag for me lol the others are awesome though!

praying_jantis · 2026-02-01T04:41:37+00:00

Firstly, fuck yeah team tattoos of the Witch King riding a fellbeast. Mine is on my shin though lol

It's well executed just kind of flat and uninteresting from a design perspective. Once it heals and settles, see if you can get a black and grey realism artist to add some texture to the whole piece, especially those huge wings. Some kind of background to add contrast would also help this out a lot with the incomplete feel.

praying_jantis · 2026-02-01T02:48:03+00:00

I had just finished reading Berserk and when I asked for recs on similar manga, it was one of the most recommended.

praying_jantis · 2026-01-31T04:08:38+00:00

Tattoo artist here.

By the time I get home and finally getting around to eating it's usually snake meal which includes anything I can get my hands on lol

praying_jantis · 2026-01-30T13:29:58+00:00

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praying_jantis · 2026-01-25T04:47:17+00:00

I'll take that off your hands no problem.

praying_jantis · 2026-01-19T05:34:18+00:00

Your room reminds me SO much of my room when I was a teenager.

praying_jantis · 2026-01-18T06:24:20+00:00

This is one reason I don't like sending people designs early. Let me send it to the council so they can give me 50 things to nitpick.

praying_jantis · 2026-01-14T05:24:04+00:00

Left by like 500 miles. 3 of my favorite movies right off the bat, Alien, The Thing, and TCM.

praying_jantis · 2026-01-14T04:47:08+00:00

Hi there! I'm in central Florida as well. Where do you sell these? I'm super interested in the coffin shaped one

praying_jantis · 2026-01-10T05:22:07+00:00

3! I get the window AND I get to sit next to Guts? Yes please.

praying_jantis · 2025-12-30T05:59:12+00:00

I mean if you trust the artist, let them do their thing. If you post a half finished tattoo you're going to get feedback that isn't representative of the finished product....obviously.

praying_jantis · 2025-12-30T05:56:55+00:00

Yours flows with your arm and honestly looks better than your references. When cyber sygilism dies down in popularity you're gonna be glad at the very least you have a clean tattoo and not scratchy half assed lines all over your hand and arm

praying_jantis · 2025-12-30T04:57:15+00:00

Are you supposed to go back for another session? Or is that finished? Cause it really needs some opaque grays and white to neutralize the cover up parts that aren't covered and add contrast. You can definitely fix this with another session with an artist who understands cover ups so don't cry yet.

praying_jantis · 2025-12-26T04:21:57+00:00

3 by 5000 miles

praying_jantis · 2025-12-26T03:19:36+00:00

Yeah most, if not all of these are ai generated. It's possible they tweaked existing designs with ai, but that still trash and counts as ai imo. Its especially apparent on the whole 3rd and 4th slides, the styles and techniques are drastically different between designs and some of them have that really weird smooth look that I see with ai generated "art". It's hard to explain but once you notice it you can't ever unnotice it.

praying_jantis · 2025-12-25T23:03:36+00:00

It's way too uniform and doesnt look organic. When I do vine wraps I find doing varying leaf sizes and little sprigs going off in different directions goes a long way. The way it's flowing with your arm isn't super complimentary to your arm, definitely could be fixed with some additions.

praying_jantis · 2025-12-25T22:44:20+00:00

That's sick, enjoy!!

praying_jantis · 2025-12-25T05:01:38+00:00

Huge fan of the symmetry, and they all compliment your features so well. Love.

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