Matt's Skull

It's always a bonus when I run into a tattoo artist somewhere other than a tattoo shop.



For example, I spotted Matthew Adams on the platform of the 34th Street Station, waiting for a downtown A train last week.



Like most artists, he had a lot of ink, so he picked this one piece to share:

And on the back side of the forearm:

 

Matt works at Sacred Tattoo in Manhattan with Lalo Yunda, who is the artist that inked this incredible skull.

As it turns out, I have featured Matt's work on the site before here and here, as well as this piece by Lalo.

Thanks to Matt for sharing this great tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Ivan Shares an Amazing David Sena Tattoo

This post is a straggler from 2011 and readers may wonder why it took so long to appear here on the site.



First, take a gander:

Pretty cool, isn't it?



Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of information on it, as I snapped this on the subway one evening last June, and I wasn't able to record a lot of details. This is what I do know: the host of this tattoo is Ivan, and the piece  took 2 sessions and approximately 15 hours to complete. The talented artist behind this is David Sena from North Star Tattoo in New York City.



The detail in the piece is wonderful:

And the scale of the tattoo as it wraps around the arm is impressive:

Unfortunately, there's not much more I can provide in terms of what went into the work, but the quality of the tattoo speaks for itself.



Thanks to Ivan for allowing me to snap these shots on the subway and consenting to sharing them here on Tattoosday!

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Bright colorful tattoos from Ian Preeper at Classy Tattoo Company in Nova Scotia

free handed this on with sharpie, about 2 1/2 hours







plastic rotary machine haha...pic on the right is a bit blurry...i'll get a better one later
See more at http://classytattooco.yolasite.com/
Come get some color! Classy Tattoo Co. 6100 Young St, Halifax! Nova Scotia

Bright colorful tattoos from Ian Preeper at Classy Tattoo Company in Nova Scotia

free handed this on with sharpie, about 2 1/2 hours







plastic rotary machine haha...pic on the right is a bit blurry...i'll get a better one later
See more at http://classytattooco.yolasite.com/
Come get some color! Classy Tattoo Co. 6100 Young St, Halifax! Nova Scotia

More tattoos from Nikko Hurtado at Black Anchor in So Cal

The owner of Sullens sleeve. I still have a couple more passes and touch ups but here it is before I worked on it yesterday.





 
See more at www.nikkohurtado.com

More tattoos from Nikko Hurtado at Black Anchor in So Cal

The owner of Sullens sleeve. I still have a couple more passes and touch ups but here it is before I worked on it yesterday.





 
See more at www.nikkohurtado.com

Death Metal Tattoos: part 2

I wish I knew what this was, I really do. It looks like a totem pole of demons? With some kind of weird scarred-out blob in the middle. Is it a tribal-mutant batman logo? AND DO YOU SEE THE SCRATCHED UP FETUS ON HIS ELBOW? I mean really, how could you miss that? I don't even know what the stuff on his forearm is. If anyone can help decipher this, please let me know! I was staring at this guy for ages trying to figure it out.



I wish I knew what was on his back, too. You can see a bit of it poking out. I bet it's incredible.

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I think the title says it all, really. This is a truly scary guy.

Suns

Here are three really bad suns, ranging from really not so bad to possibly the worst tattoo I have seen in my life. The first two are really an excuse to be able to post the third one.

This one is kind of scratchy and weird looking but the colors are good:



This one has a skull in it, and the colors aren't so great, but it's still not that bad:


But this, my friends, this is really really really bad. It's scarred, patchy, blobby, and faded.

Randoms

I try to have little themes for each post that I do, but these tattoos are just in little leagues of their own.

This is clearly some kind of drunken home-done tattoo, but is seriously bad. Shitty, even.


Apparently this guy broke his collar bone a bunch of times, so he got it tattooed. I can think of a million things to put there that would be way cooler than this.


And finally, this one isn't so bad. I wasn't even really going to post it, I just had it saved in a little folder of mediocre cliche-bad tattoos. However, I was on the subway this weekend, and saw the tattoo in person, so it has to be posted. I don't know the person at all, it was complete luck (or this is flash and a lot of people have this terrible tattoo, in which case it's worse than I thought).

Monsters

Today's theme is monsters! I have some gems for you. I actually have a huge soft spot for terrible 80's metal looking tattoos. There's something about the wonkiness that makes them awesome, but only if they are of really brutal monsters. Or maybe wizards.

I think this is a vampire dark elf zombie monster, but I am not really sure. Also, what is spearing the left eye? A tail of something even more sinister?


I actually kind of love this one. I can't figure it out! I think it has three heads, a bunch of bulging muscles, some horns, some hands doing the claw (my favorite), and the weirdest lower body I have ever seen.


This is the best hellhound-in-a-graveyard EVER, but only because he has a really wicked goatee. I think it is from Big Dogz Ink. The skull looking woefully upwards is a great bonus.

Skull tattoos

I love skull tattoos so very, very much. I have nine of them myself. But these ones? Not so much to love about them.

Is this a welder skull? He looks like he is melting!


Does this skull have a cigarette coming out of his head? And what is the big log behind him?


I couldn't figure the other two out, but I really can't figure this one out. What is this? Alien angel quarterback skull?


** update! Apparently Skull #2 is a skull bong. That pretty much makes it more awesome/awful all at once.