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on 7/20/2006
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this is the first part of this sleeve that's completed. this is an image of the inner bicep completely done. more to come soon.
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this is my best client. he got a full sleeve within 2 years time. he decided he wanted to get his wife tattooed on him without it being necessarily recognizeable. we took a picture he had of her and turned it into a murmaid. he also got a custom sea dragon to represent himself and to follow the whole pirate theme he has going. as we pieced it together it came together more and more.. this guy is not only my best client but one of my best friends. props to you chad!!!!
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this client drove two hours to have me do this awesome portrait of her dad who has passed for a few years now. she says this is the only clean shaven pic of him. we also incorporated his one green and one blue eye. it made for an interesting tattoo. my client and i love it.
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this piece is definately a change of the norm for me. haven't done a bold color piece in a while. i was excited to do this piece for this client because she wanted a memorial tattoo for her father without lettering which seems common in our shop. she let me run with the background some and allowed my color and shading suggestions. i even got to have some fun with white throughout all of the wings.
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one of my best friends whose also a client resently had a baby girl. being an artist himself, he wanted to do a creative version of his baby's ultrasound. he came up with the design. all i did was tattoo it!
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this piece of the clients daughter on his left chest took 4 and a half hours. we added color to the eyes. he said that her eyes are more of a true blue as opposed to how dark they look in the original pic.
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this sleeve was freehand drawn along with some picture reference. i have put over 60 hours into it and is still not finished. but definitely finished enough to post. hope you all like it. one of my largest full color pieces.
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this time it's personal!! my good friend and co-worker mike decided he waned to get this rose on his neck for his birthday this year. it made my day. his approach was to have it done realistically. we went as big as we could without making it look awkward. i love the placement and the way the outer leaves spread throughout his neck, especially up top where a leaf hides behind his ear.
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i just got back from a trip in miami florida where i did a guest spot for 2 weeks and the coolest tattoo i did was this awsome portrait of this guys daughter and the tattoo takes up his whole left side of his chest. i think its my most accurate portrait yet.
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a portrait of this client's bull terrier as a buddha with a robe on, sitting on a lotus flower. tattoo is located on the inside left bicep.
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this client came to me wanting to cover up a birth mark that resembled a lightly colored bruise. we decided on 2 black and grey roses. you can't even see the birth mark now. love the smooth greys.
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11X14 black, gray, and white prismacolor pencils on paper.
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this client chose a sacred heart design from one of those old school jesus christ candles you can get at the supermarket. i really wanted to approach the tattoo with that old school painterly feel. but at the same time, i wanted to create some contrast because the client had a fairly dark tone to her skin.
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one of my good buddies loves clown tattoos. he found this sticker and ironically enough the pic looked like his wife. i was more than happy to do it for him.
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this client wanted to find an interesting way to incorporate his beliefs in the asian culture and scuba diving. two of his most cared for interests. so, he came to me with a rough drawing that basically looked like his tattoo. i like the composition alot with the way the shark sord of swims around the ying yang. i also find it interesting the way the ying yang and kanji are soemwhat tilted. it creates alot of interest to the eye.
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this was this clients 1st tattoo. young kid, but a good artist. he drew the image himself. he wanted that classical feel yet some graphicness to it. i spent about 3 hours on it. we both loved the outcome.
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this series of work was designed by myself and the client. he only likes black and grey work, mostly classic renaissance style tattoos.
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a colaboration of drawings and a few paintings i've had collected that i've done nothing with until now. hope you all enjoy them!!
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8 1/2 by 11 prismacolor pencil on bristol paper.
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this is a 12"x20" illustration board with prismacolor pencil and gouache paint.
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here's a final pic of the goddess themis.
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finally finished this rib cage pin-up piece!! the lava like fire and ash in the background makes this piece very dinamic. we were both pleased.
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this client came to me with the idea of the theater masks. laugh now, cry later!! but he didn't want to go with the same old design. he decided he wanted to use skulls. so i suggested doing an evil one and a god like one. i think the designs came out very original. he was definately satisfied.
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same guy who likes reneissance style tattoos. except this one he drew a graphic self portrait which is where the sleeve started. along with his own portrait, he brought me some pictures of some of his favorite authors and it just grew from there. the key with these tattoos where to keep them graphic and bold. i really liked his idea of keeping them in panels but we tried keeping the backgrounds sort of connected.
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this piece i just resently did. it is a concrete version of the green man wall mask. this client and i have been friends a long time and this piece is an on going project based off of an abstract design we started a few years back. we wanted the green man to connect with the tribal abstract piece so we crossed over the background design so it ran under the green man piece. work still in progress.
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this is a final picture of the green man i've been working on. it's all healed and blended in.
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here's one i did of joan jett.
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here's one of sean penn.
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here's another but i can't remember for the life of me who the man is.
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last one! this guy was on the cover of rolling stone magazine years ago. don't know his name either.
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nice black and grey piece.
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ok, let me try this again. now i'm posting this piece completed.
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my budy is big on that band HIM, so we did this one on his forarm. i love the blood splatter on the razor blade.
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here's another really fun black and grey portrait style piece. obviously this is another on of leonardo da vinci's masterpieces. it's still in the works....
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this is a 16"x20" oil and gouache painting on gessoed board. the color parts done with oils. the black and gray parts are done in gouache.
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this piece has been so much fun to do. not only is it a portrait of a lotus flower, lettering weaves in and out of the top pedals creating an awsome transparency effect. still in progress though, have to color in the very middle of the lotus.
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this client is in the service and had been to iraq. when they loose men there, they take their rifles, boots, helmets and dog tags and place them accordingly for pictures.
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i posted this piece yesterday but the photo itself just wasn't very good. here is a new pic of it that i took today. it represents the tattoo much better.
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this was a fun full color flash piece i did on a walk in day. i found the edges of the design to be interesting and it also gave me a chance to really play with color. it took me about 2 and a half hours to complete.
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this guy's getting ready to head for music college in chicago so he wanted to commemorate it with this awsome photo realistic arm band his friend drew. he was very pleased. my favorite part was the hand!
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this has been an ongoing piece for me. i have put in about 30 to 40 hours on it. after i posted it last, i wasn't completely happy with it so i decided to rework it. i added more black shading in the drapery of the dress for more contrast and i used white all over the figure for high lights. i put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this piece. i just hope its worth being featured now.
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this is a flash piece by mr. william webb. hope i did it justice.
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yet another really fun piece. i've done this classic picasso paitning once before so i was familiar with it. i tried to reproduce it to the tee!!! the client was very pleased. it took me about 3 and a half hours.
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the client wanted to make this paw print as real looking as possible. we were pleased.
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yey!!! this work in progress is finally finished. we took this flower straight from a photograph the client found. we incorporated the lettering to create depth and transparency. and the inner part was fully colored as it was in the photograph. the client and i were both really pleased.
ps. don't mind the wrinkles that the client has over the tattoo from her clothing that she got driving to the shop to take this pic!! lol
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this is a good buddy of mine. he decided he wanted to put something on his back to represent god watching his back. even though the praying hands image is pretty common, it served his purpose...
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this client came in with the typical idea of razor wire as a band. we decided to incorporate smoke in the piece to create depth and overlapping of the razor wire. we ended up coming up with the concept of the wire being constraining but the smoke being the opposite hence the yin and yang theory.
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this is another work in progress. this client is doing a memorial tattoo for her mom. she has a 4x4 red colored rose on the middle of her back with wings expanding out towards her shoulders. still in progress. the rose looks so good i had to post it. when the wings are complete i will repost it all.
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this is a piece i did on an old friend. what was really challenging about this piece is that it was covering the elbow completely with solid color. this is a healed picture.
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this scarface sits opposite of my very 1st one inside the leg above the ankle. this one took me 8 and a half fours. still in progress
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this reference seems pretty popular. so here's my version of it. 8"x10" black and white oil painting on gessoed board.
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his client came in wanting alot of black tribal work. he started with a lizard on his right forarm and wanted to match it with a tribal shark on his left forarm. i suggested adding some waves around the shark to compliment it and he went for it. i did the waves freehand. he loved it!!
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this 2 part drawing is a celebration of my 15 years of tattooing. each drawing is 8 and a half by 11 inches.
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this client's nickname is lobo which means wolf in spanish. the tattoo is placed on her inner thigh which made it pretty difficult to do. it turned out pretty well. my favorite parts are the face and the paws.
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this is an 8"x10" graphite on paper.
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this client obviously is a star wars fan. he brought me the reference he wanted and i added a custom background. i wanted to incorporate colors in the background that would contrast yoda's skintones so i went with reds and yellows. needless to say, this client was very pleased.
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My name is Iggy. I've been a tattoo artist for 16 years. I reside out of Columbus, Ohio and work out of Bodystain Tattoo. I focus mostly on anything portraiture style, custom black and grey work. I love doing full color as well. I really dig asian, renaissance, and bold large designs. I'm here to not only admire other artists work but to hopefully learn more about techniques and design elements. to anyone viewing my page and reading this, i thank you. any comment, feedback, and or constructive suggestion or opinion would be appreciated.
Bodystain Tattoo
4410 Cleveland Ave.
Columbus OH 43228 US
Phone: 614.475.1090
http://www.bodystain.com
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welldone!you crazy:) i like your style dude! great use of colours!take care...
» Posted by
Bertytat2
on 1/5/2008 3:13:39 PM.
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hi
i was look ur gallery u have nice works..keep it up.
» Posted by
VenomKursat
on 1/20/2008 3:37:48 AM.
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hey bro..
really nice works......
» Posted by
ResatGul
on 7/24/2008 4:21:54 AM.
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hi man
perfect works.bravo
» Posted by
Sars
on 10/16/2008 12:29:39 PM.
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