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I was sup­posed to have had this ses­sion done last Tues­day but Sean for­got that he had to pack up his gear to go to a con­ven­tion down in Tampa, FL. To make it up to me he let me come in on his day off and now it’s finally fin­ished. The most imme­di­ately notice­able thing is that he relined a lot of the tat­too much darker to make it crisper. If you recall the ini­tial work done with the tat­too were mostly gray­lined to act as a per­ma­nent sten­cil so Sean kind of did this back­wards, col­or­ing the the sten­cil and then dark­en­ing the lines. Appar­ently Dave Luke­son (who shares a cubi­cle with Sean at Fuzion Ink) uti­lizes this tech­nique exclu­sively but this was Sean’s first time try­ing it.

The lit­tle designs around the ring were gray­lined in at the first ses­sion as well, but the designs on the fret­board and strap were totally free­hand, as was the some of the extra orna­men­ta­tion in the arch. I think the lit­tle designs are really amaz­ing, but they hurt like hell. When he was doing the black lines it really didn’t hurt– prob­a­bly the least painful of any of the work I have had done, but he started dark­en­ing some of the back­ground and ink­ing the lit­tle designs and it was the most painful work so far. Appar­ently its nor­mal for the pain to get worse after mul­ti­ple ses­sions, but I think it hurt more because the color had been done more recently and was prob­a­bly still a lit­tle ten­der to the touch of a needle.

You know its a good sign when your tat­too artist starts gig­gling and say­ing “This is so cool!” as he’s fin­ish­ing your tat­too. Sean isn’t a guy who gets super excited, so I wasn’t sure if he was jok­ing with me. Sean had me parade around the shop and showed it off to other guys in the shop.

Need­less to say this expe­ri­ence has been super pos­i­tive. As ridicu­lous as it might sound I think my life is bet­ter for hav­ing gone through with this. I can’t explain it, but it just is. I am totally hooked and already won­der­ing what I will want to get next, but I don’t think it will be as exten­sive as this one was. Kim, on the other hand, has plans for a half-sleeve (a full-color pea­cock) this sum­mer so I am excited to see how that comes out.

Ses­sion One
Ses­sion Two
Ses­sion Three