Infamous

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It was about 300$ at a pawn shop, and also a Birthday present.

It paid for itself though, just had to shoot one wedding! lol Which is really not something I want to do again.. But, I have another one coming up in (I think) April

What needles are you using?

Its currently set-up to take jpegs but I can change it to take raw if I wanted to

Congrats!

I use a Canon EOS Rebel T3i, I used to do photography :) Still do a bit.

Usually when I open up the file, it says its 54×36 inches and between 2.5 to 4mb!

I thought the same thing when I saw the pictures he sent me were outdoors. I assume they were taken with a cell phone because I actually had to make them bigger in photoshop. Usually, when I use my camera I have to scale them down to about 20% for them to even load online.

And thanks about the line work! I’ll get some better pictures whenever he…[Read more]

You can make a crappy cheap machine work fantastic if its the right type of metal and you replace the junk parts with good stuff.

When I was first starting, I was told that all these kits were junk, so I went out and researched what the best materials were and found cheap Hand-made machines made out of quality stuff. My first machine was only…[Read more]

Oh I knew there had to be fakes when I was looking at the stuff on amazon and some of them were half the price with 1 star reviews and others cost a boat load of cash with 4-5 star reviews and they’re supposed to be the same thing.

The most common one I saw was a version by Monster Point, which btw, is the brand I have currently and I think it is…[Read more]

I just got some Kuro Sumi in the mail, and it is about a billion times better than everything else I’ve used. Just look at the difference between this and my old stuff! Oh yeah 8-)

I managed to procure an HP2 Power Supply on an Ebay Auction for 33$. Now, I just hope its the real deal. I didn’t see any red flags though, and the description said the brand name was in fact Hurricane

Maybe I should move to Denmark. Except for the tax thing I think it sounds pretty cool. Also I would probably have to learn Danish :/

Was that a Eurotrip reference? I feel like it was.

I completely agree, the problem with it is that it looks like it is ripping through paper, not skin.

These tears look to jagged and some of them are folded back even. A good way to do ripped skin is to think about that old shirt you have in your closet that you can’t bear to throw away, you know the one with the holes all over it from years of…[Read more]

60$? Sounds like I’ll be getting one of those soon then, with my next paycheck

This happens to me to, and to the people who ask me I say my body is my temple, and I am only looking to grace its walls with art that has deep personal meaning to me.

And to the people who have no tattoos that use the same reasoning, “My body is my temple” I have never been into any church or religious building that didn’t have some form of art…[Read more]

Thank you Lennart and Ram for the positive encouragement. I haven’t looked at this post in quite a while because the first two posts were very discouraging.

I have done quite a bit of tuning on my machines since this, but what I really need is a good power supply. Also, I have some Kuro Sumi in the mail, I don’t think the mom’s I have is good…[Read more]

Now that’s a compliment, and I will take it! :D

Is that a pass then?

Materials used were plain number 2 pencil for the first sketch, Fine Point Sharpies for color, and for the outline an Ultra Fine Point Black Sharpie

Thanks Ram!

Also here is another version of the barbwire rose that I just finished. I think its quite a bit better