Quote Originally Posted by Wadeb_21 View Post
So I'm scheduled with this local tattoo artist in Tampa to get a half sleeve on my left arm. It took me awhile to find a tattoo artist that I thought does a good job, here is his website Mike Parsons Ink | Award Winning Tattoos and Custom Art | Tampa Florida. From what I have heard this guys is really cool and if you check out his work he does a great job. I currently have this gay looking tribal tiger on my outer part of arm between my elbow and shoulder, so this half sleeve is going to be a cover up.

I'm leaning toward getting some type of underwater/sea scene (I have always loved the ocean) If you checkout the website I like the last pic to the right in the second row, I don't want the exact one but something along those lines as far as underwarter scene goes. I've also been scouring the net trying to find pics I can bring with me to my appt this sat to give him an idea of what I want so he can draw me up something. I know I want it to be very colorful.

So with that I was just wondering if anyone else has some really nice tattoos they would like to post a pic of or have a story they could share (I know there is a another tattoo thread somewhere). I'm pretty anxious for my appt this Sat. I heard half sleeves can take anywhere from 7 to 15 hours with multiple sittings depending on the detail of the art work and other things. Anyone have an info they could pass along to me about getting a half sleeve I would really apprecaite.
There's no need to be anxious, but it will hurt a bit. I don't have any sleeves, but my last tat took just over 6 hours to do (and another couple to go as soon as the weather cools down). It's on the outside of my upper left arm and shoulder. For the first three hours, it wasn't overly painful at all, but because it has so much detail and colour he had to go over the same spots repeatedly and by the end my arm felt like ground beef. Still, while it hurt, it was far from unbearable.