Brian nailed this one. It’s the 4th piece in Sames’ Star Wars scar sleeve, and I think it could very well be my favorite (so far anyway). When I first saw it I was completely blown away by how spot on the design is.
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BMEtv – Matt Collins
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It’s time for another look back at the BME World Tour. Today’s interview is with Matt Collins from Dynamic Tattoo in Melbourne. Matt’s a young artist who is making a name for himself while working alongside other artists who are mentoring him as he develops his craft, including Trevor McStay, who we talked to in an earlier edition of BMEtv.
To check out the video, keep on reading!
If you’ve missed any of the videos so far, you can check out the rest of them in the BME World Tour Video Gallery
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The Friday Follow-up
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Things are back to normal this week, which means it’s time for this week’s scarification follow-up post. Before we get to it, I just want to take a minute to thank everyone who keeps sending in their healed scar photos. When I started this column last year there was no way I could predict how popular it would become, and there’s no way it could exist without the contributions of the many talented scarification artists.
That said, let’s get on to this week’s scar. Back in December of last year we saw this scarification that was done over ink. What was unique was that it wasn’t done over solid blackwork, but rather it was done over Shannan’s full color chestpiece.
It’s been almost six months now since we saw this scar by Anders, so keep on reading if you want to know how it looks today.
Now that the scar has had some time to heal you can see how well it fits in with the rest of her work. I really like how the scar tissue has healed to almost the exact same color as the ribbon on the corset. To see more of Anders’ work, check out his BME Portfolio Gallery.
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..and this is why I pretty much don’t ever do scarification anymore.
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People often ask me why I don’t tattoo. I have been around it enough, I know the technical stuff but I just lack the talent to really excel at tattooing. I explain that while I could likely make a few bucks doing it, I would forever be disheartened by my inability to put out pieces with the artistic quality I would expect of myself.
Go back a few years, to the “early days” of scarifications modern resurgence, a time when very few piercers/mod artist offered this service and it seemed like a bandwagon I could jump on. Bold simple designs, cut burned and peeled from the flesh…….that I could handle. Then along comes people like Ryan Oullette who did this piece. People like him, Ron Garza, Brian Decker, Efix Roy and several others have pushed this art form from it’s primitive roots into the fine art you see here.
To think that just 10 years ago scarification was so rare and “extreme” it could earn it’s wearers an invite to Modcon events, it is astonishing the quantity of amazing scarification we see each and every week here on Modblog. So while I occasionally will continue to take on a simple piece, I have to throw my hat in to these guys when it comes to this sort of amazingness.
So thanks, you overly talented a-holes, now I am “just a piercer” again 🙂
Anyhow, back to the photo at hand ……this recent piece, which I was just blown away by. It was actually drawn up for one client who never showed up for it, so he posted the drawing to facebook and a girl named Samantha, jumped on the chance and spent 7 hours under the blade to get it.
For proof that Ryan actually wears the title of “Lord of the Blade” with pride keep on keeping on.
Tattoo by Angry Al at Ryan’s shop, Precision Body Arts.
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Connect the dots
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Sonja from Punktum Tattoo in Germany has taken stippling to new levels with her geometric designs. But she isn’t just limited to playing with math. Using designs that evoke the image of a mandala, combined with symbols such as the Om, her works go beyond the technical and into the spiritual.
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Flora and Fauna
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Check out this incredible shoulder piece by Jackie Rabbit from Star City Tattoo in Roanoke, VA.
I love the little details she included in this, like the ants crawling across the petals of the yellow flower near the bottom. The floral tattoo, and wildlife tattoo galleries both have the full sized version of this piece if you’d like to see it in greater detail.
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Guess What?
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You know the drill. I show you a cropped picture, you try to guess what it is. So here goes..
I think this may be one of the more challenging ones I’ve posted, so good luck. Once you’ve made your guess, keep on reading to see if you were right.
So this one was a bit of a trick image as it wasn’t of the final modification, but of the process involved. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the beginnings of a head split.
The uploader of these photos sent in an entire series detailing all the steps that he took for the initial cut in his head split. Here’s a couple more photos to show you how things progressed.
BME Hard subscribers can see the rest of the photos in the Head Splitting gallery. They include shots from multiple angles, as well as some blood. And who doesn’t like a little blood with their genital mods.
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Robots in Disguise
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“Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Deceptions”
I really want to get excited about a new Transformers movie, yet I know that it’ll just be a series of “BAYSPLOSIONS” with Shia shouting “nonononono” for 2 hours. Thankfully artists like Keegan Lam are out there to remind us of the vastly superior animated series that kicked off a generation of children who at some point believed that cars could transform into giant robots.
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Part man, Part machine, All hotness
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It might be hard to believe based on this photo, but Efix is actually a pretty shy guy. Which is why I expect a phone call in an hour or so from him asking me to take this down. Sorry buddy, but someone of your hotness deserves to be adored by the masses.
This photo was taken at the last Sydney Tattoo Expo where Efix took second place for best biomechanical tattoo. The man behind Efix’s incredible tattoos is Jay Marceau who works with Efix out of D-Markation in Quebec City.
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The 8th Plague
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According to the Old Testament, Egypt was visited by 10 plagues, the 8th being a plague of locusts. This just goes to show what a bad reputation locusts have had for thousands of years. Well thanks to this young lady and tattoo artist Keegan Lam (IAM: *chineedred*), this locust shows that not all of them are horrible.
Keegan works out of Forever Yonge Ink in Toronto, and you can see more of this tattoo in the miscellaneous tattoo gallery.