How do I know Krista is nerdy? Well, for starters, her feet are probably the nerdiest ones I’ve seen in a while. She also looks really cute sporting a pair of thick rimmed glasses.
Krista sent in a whole bunch of photos to the BMEGirls gallery, so make the most of your Friday afternoon and go check out all the other beautiful BMEGirls.
When it comes to hand tattoos, Keegan has a knack for giving himself pieces that people will stop and take notice. 2 years ago he freaked former ModBlog writer Jordan out with his Dali inspired palm tattoo. This time around he’s given himself a wooden hand!
There’s a few more photos in the hand tattoo gallery that are definitely worth a gander. And if you happen to be in Toronto, you can check out the hand in person at Forever Yonge Ink.
This week in the follow-up we’re going to take a look at a small cutting. As you know, the main point of this weekly column is to show people just how scars and brands can heal over time, as well as showcasing the many talented scarification artists out there. While we have seen scarification used in conjunction with tattoos, either as highlighting or negative space in blackwork, we haven’t seen a scar used to remove a portion of a tattoo.
Toronto’s own Six sent in this series of photos of a small scar he did. The goal was to use scarification to remove a section of the tattoo that the client wasn’t happy with.
To start with, here is the tattoo in question. The issue is that the letter “C” isn’t distinctive enough, and the knuckles can easily be mistaken to read “GOLD”.
Following the cutting, you can see just what was removed in order to give the client the look he was after.
To see how this healed up, you’ll have to keep on reading.
A month later, here’s how things are looking. There is still a bit of redness as it’s only been a month, but you can see just how much of a difference a little bit of scarification can make.
In the scarification galleries you’ll be able to see a close up of the finger, which will give you a better idea of just how Six was able to help out his client.
According to Efix, this skull is massive. Unfortunately, I can’t tell where it is on the body, so it’s hard to get scale. Plus if you’ve ever met Efix, a lot of things are big to him.
Now Efix is going to be in Australia over the next few weeks, so if you’re down there, stop by and say hi. I’m not sure if he’s fully booked or not, but I know he likes to have visitors. Also, he’s been dying to be a BMEBoy for a while, so if you can get a really good photo of him, send it in. In the meantime, check out more of his work in his BME portfolio gallery.
The use of negative space in a tattoo isn’t a new technique by any means. This fairy tattoo by Joey Pang is just an example of how a skilled artist can use that negative space to create a beautiful image. At first glance the fairy seems to be just a head, wings, and a squiggly line. Yet when you look at the negative space, your mind takes these pieces, combines them with the negative space, and creates the full body of the fairy. Joey is using the negative space in such a way that the viewer also becomes an artist in their mind, filling in the blank with an image unique to each viewer.
You can check out more of Joey’s recent work in the new skool tattoo gallery.
Christina sent in her latest tattoo by Diego from Graceland Tattoo and Body Piercing in Wappingers Falls, NY; a very valentines inspired rocket. World of Warcraft fans will instantly recognize it as the “Big Love Rocket”, one of the many ways to fly around the world. Nothing says love like riding a big pink rocket.
You can see the love rocket in all its glory in the hearts and love tattoo gallery, although it could easily be placed in the geek tattoo gallery as well.
When it comes to scarification pieces, sometimes a detailed cutting isn’t what the person being scarred wants. Sickpuppie here had his scars done by Kelly D, which fit nicely with his series of five microdermals. Asymmetrical pieces such as this always evoke reactions from people, either positive or negative, simply because the human brain is wired to look for symmetry. Combining the asymmetry with a minimalistic design really makes this project stand out as something fairly unique.
It also looks like one of his nipple piercings is diagonal while the other is horizontal. You can see more scars, both minimal and elaborate in the scarification galleries.
I know, I know I failed to provide you guys with the much anticipated follow up to the first installation of The Cadaver Chronicles . For that, I am extremely sorry. For some odd reason BME’s wordpress site sometime’s chooses to deny me access for a few days. Then it, out of nowhere, will forgive me for whatever transgressions I may have imposed upon it, and it lets me back in. I decided to putt Cliff’s piece up Friday, and just get back on schedule with that.
However, since I managed to log in, why not post something and if I am going to post something why not some penguins? Really, after that whole March of the Penguins movie, and Bob Saget’s spoof of it, who doesn’t love these waddling little creatures?
I am sure some of the modblog readers are already picking these pieces apart and condemning me for even posting this quality of tattooing to Modblog. However, sometimes there is more to a tattoo then just the finished piece, sometimes who did the piece makes up for a lack of technical prowess. For a look at the “man” responsible for these pieces, keep on keeping on….
Oh you coy fox you. I can’t get anything buy you can I? You noticed right off the bat that the word “man” was in quotes, and you quickly figured out it wasn’t a man at all that did these pieces. But if not a man, then what?
Well, what better to do a tattoo of a penguin than a penguin person?
No! Not that penguin!
THIS penguin, my buddy Penguin Boy!
With no arms, and two left hands I think Penguin Boy did a pretty killer job on these pieces, what do you guys think?
A little while back, the gang from Ascension Body Mods got together for some suspensions. Below you can check out Lesha.FFG hanging out in the warm New Mexico sun. You might recognize Lesha from her unique scarification that was featured a couple of years ago.
After some discussion with Sean and TrickyDick, we decided to name this “The Invisible Chair”. Of course if there is another name for it, please let me know as the three of us couldn’t think of it.
Anyway, Steve was the one who threw the hooks for Lesha, and he was also the one to cut down her legs so she could transition into a suicide. For those of you who have never seen a transition before, keep on reading as Steve sent in a video of the transition.
There are a lot more videos available in the video galleries, and as you can see by this video, they’re not all related to the hard galleries. So if you’ve got some videos you’d like to submit, send them in!
Leave it to Brian to yet another nerdy scar that looks incredible. I talked to Brian shortly before he started work on this piece at the Philly tattoo convention, and asked him about what technique he was going to use. If you recall the last Star Wars scar he did he combined both cutting and branding to create a phenomenal piece. Well it turns out that branding wasn’t an option this time around as the smell of burning flesh tends to overpower other scents.
In any case, you can see that even without branding this scar turned out fantastic.
Head on over to Brian’s BME portfolio gallery to see some of the other scars that he did at the convention.