Tattoos

[superbeveridge]

my main artist is also a friend and a customer of mine. i usually tip about 25% because he lets me jump the line and gives me a big discount off his his hourly. i also give him a friends and family discount in my shop on service for his bike and clothing and whatnot. The way I look at it as long as he can keep doing good work and I don't have the wait months like the rest of the people I am happy.

[noviss900]

FYI in most cases if an artist is charging $150-200 an hour they're not making $150-200 an hour.

[mike lowrey]

QFT.

How're you gonna tip your artist less than the dude who brings you food at a fuckin' restaurant?

unless your restaurant check is $1500, its not exactly the same thing...

[rgray]

I think I am more inclined to tip a tattoo artist because I legitimately want to. Especially if, as superbeveridge said, you get pumped in line and/or are treated in an exceptional manor. Tipping servers is completely cultural, unfortunately, because people should get gratuity for doing a good/exceptional job - not because its customary.

I like when shops have signs saying "tipping is not a place in Taipei"

[surly]

I've already uploaded a few pictures from this tattoo that I got a few months ago, but thought it'd be appropriate upload a pic showcasing the more "macho" portions of it...

[renski]

nice portrait work.

the guy who does my work tells me not to tip since he owns the shop. I usually tip since the price I expect to pay per session is under what he charges me.

[bruised]

i tipped 100$ for a 10+ hour job for a dude who does 200$/hour... fair?

[chubby]

thats a 5% tip.

[mpcec]

I tipped around 30%. Artist was a friend and charged me about 50% of her normal rate. If someones cutting you a deal, all the more reason to tip higher. It can only help with future rates if you plan on using the same artist again.

[16steps]

holy shit, stop talking about tipping

[ajchen]

holy shit, stop talking about tipping

I dunno, I was kinda hoping for at least one or two more opinions on it.

[koven]

holy shit, stop talking about tipping

That was your 666th post

[renski]

I think your looking at du's location. ive been wanting to get some hand work done. not sure if it's acceptable in my profession though.

[ajchen]

Lets get back to posting tattoos.

Work done by Regino Gonzalez at Invisible NYC.

http://www.regnyc.com

http://www.invisiblenyc.com

[Augustus]

Thanks Kiku. (got it today)

[mike lowrey]

nice work(s)

[koven]

danny by MrEllis, on Flickr

[JTSO23]

inner bicep done a couple weeks ago:

[stuntastic]

SON OF A BlTCH THAT LOOKS GOOD.

I've been trying to figure out how I wanted to do dinosaurs.

I wanted to do a dot-to-dot T-Rex, so my kid would have fun connecting the dots and coloring it in. But I lost the drawing :\\\

[corey trevor]

inner bicep done a couple weeks ago:

only decent one on the page

[jacoBUH_x]

inner arm done yesterday

[on-display]

can someone tell me some good artists in sf or la?

[fallen angels]

in SF there's Blackheart or Skull & Sword, or cross the bay and hit up Temple in Oakland.

[stuntastic]

My lady got her tattoo done at 7th Sun. No idea what they're called now, cuz they moved a couple of blocks over... 9th Sun? 5th Sun? Whatever, but they've got decent rep.

Skull & Sword is a given, since Self Edge is tattooed by em.

A little further down in San Mateo, Godspeed is great.

[Peter North]

can someone tell me some good artists in sf or la?

Andrew Malcolm is the dude if you want Jap style. many people sleep on him

[jacoBUH_x]

My lady got her tattoo done at 7th Sun. No idea what they're called now, cuz they moved a couple of blocks over... 9th Sun? 5th Sun? Whatever, but they've got decent rep.

Skull & Sword is a given, since Self Edge is tattooed by em.

A little further down in San Mateo, Godspeed is great.

They're still called seventh son on langton. I got all mine from there. Luke Stewart did my arm

heres a shitty pic of it, sorry.

[noviss900]

Cris Cleen in SF, he's moving to Brooklyn though so prob not taking new appointments.

[JTSO23]

I got my triceratops done by matt sodenberg at broken art in silverlake. really chill dude, dope shop.

[Dex_star]

Cris Cleen in SF, he's moving to Brooklyn though so prob not taking new appointments.

yee, idle hand in SF is dope!

this reminded me that people were asking for a clearer pic of my bird... the artist, Eric Jacobsen, finally put one up on his site so here ya go... fresh from the chair

[stayhandsome]

http://shirtsanddestroy.com/artists/view/mario_desa

for those of you desa fans, there's this great shirt