Not because something is dying, but because there was a whole lot of burnt flesh lying around after this branding. Here’s what Brian had to say..
3 hour branding session on my buddy Joe, the toughest person I know. Who else can have full conversations and text message while getting drawn on with electricity without flinching? Having to continually stop to clean ink and blood off the ESU tip was the only thing that slowed me down. Thanks to Lalo Yunda for help with the drawing.
For this next scarification, we head back to Brooklyn, NYC where Brian Decker created this beautiful snail cutting/branding combo for IAM: Polareyez, which was featured back in October.
Here’s how it looks today.
As you can see, it’s much lighter than the scar I posted earlier today. While it’s located on the lower abdomen, and it was cut by Brian, that’s where the similarities stop. Genetics, skin type, aftercare, and many other factors can change how a scar forms on a person.
One of the main reasons I started up the Friday Follow-up posts was to showcase just how varied scars can heal, in addition to showcasing the many talented scarification artists out there. To date there have been over 60 follow-up posts, and I hope to continue the tradition as long as I can. So artists, and those of you with scars, send in your photos to BME (both fresh and healed) so we can keep the Friday Follow-up going for another 60 weeks.
So it just dawned on me that I haven’t posted a Friday Follow-up in a while. To make up for lost time, today is going to be made up entirely of scarification follow-up photos. We’ve got scars from three different artists, and two of the scars are by the same artist, but show just how different scars can heal from person to person.
To kick things off today we’ve got a lower abdomen scar from Brian Decker. What’s interesting to note is just how pronounced the keloiding has made the scar. The reason I’m bringing this up is because the next post today will be another abdomen scar by Brian.
If you look close you can see that Brian used a scalpel for most of it, but then switched to branding to shade it.
As I said, this is only the first of many follow-up posts today. Come on back in a little bit to see the rest of them.
You’ll have to ask Brian Decker what all of the symbols in this Ganesha scar mean.
During last weekend’s Philadelphia Tattoo Convention the hotel rooms were full of all kinds of shenanigans. Meanwhile, down on the convention floor, Brian was working hard on this and many other new scarification pieces.
And this bee has some awfully cool looking knees (and other parts).
I could be mistaken, but I believe Brian did this particular cutting at the Philadelphia Tattoo Convention this past weekend.
To finish off today’s scarification marathon we go back to the beginning with another fantastic scar/brand combo from Brian Decker. I had to shrink it down to fit on the page, so head over to Brian’s gallery to see the full sized image.
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This week has been pretty tattoo heavy on ModBlog so to make up for it, today will be all scars. Starting off is a scarification piece over blackwork from Mr. Decker.
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Yep, this is a shameless plug for Brian Decker. Brian is going to be at the Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention in February and he is offering 1/2 off all scarification work! He’s booking now, so if you’d like to get some scarification work done at half off, email Brian as soon as possible. Spots are filling up quick, book today!
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This scarification piece is actually a collaboration between Brian Decker and Starr Belew. It was done while the couple was visiting IA Studios in Tucson, AZ.
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