Anchored Art Tattoo

Only holding off on a rating of 5 because it was my first tattoo. I don't know how good it gets, but I don't think it could get much better than this. Jeremy took my appointment after hours on a Sunday night, accepted a design that I did in Photoshop and replicated it exactly, with spectacular results.

It was only when he shrunk the design, made a stencil, applied it , and started inking, that I realized how technically difficult a challenge I'd handed him.... hair-fine lines, geometric precision, and incredible amount of detail - I started sweating bullets! One thing to lay it out in Photoshop and quite another to have inked into my arm - forever!!!

Thank God Jeremy is good - very, very good. He handled it with aplomb. Quick, precise and tremendous attention to detail: he spotted a few tiny things I neglected to mention and incorporated them before I said anything. And this was after he'd already done two sleeves that day.

In one area, neither of us liked the way the stencil looked on my skin, so I asked him to freestyle, and he did that great too. A perfect match for the rest of the design. I'd only change one thing if I could: I would have relaxed a little! Since it was my first, I was so tensed up that my elbow and wrist were slightly hyperextended, so the design is a little asymmetrical with my arm in repose, but that's not his fault. And the fact is that I'm made of living flesh, not pixels.

Did I mention that he and his shop were clean, that he's a family man and both he and his assistant are natty dressers? Class act all around.

Reggie completed the piece on my rib, and it looks amazing!