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The Amazing Busse Combat Ink Contest!!! . . . Whose Tattoo Is It????
- Thread starter Jerry Busse
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Indeed! I'm glad to see you posting more frequently. I have been making a list of names for the newsletter that I will be sending shortly! I hope you're ready.
That's great to hear
I am ready whenever you are!!!!! 
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I once ate a whole pineapple.
Let's drink!
Let's drink!
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Jerry will post pictures of busse combat employee's tattoo's. We have to guess which tattoo belongs to which employee, and on what part of the body it's located.
Will the names of the employee's be given, or do we have to remember/find the names of each employee from previous posts/discussions on the boards?
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I think I have the first Scrapyard Tat of all the dogs. I got mine before the scrapper 6 came out. So that will date it.
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Oh this will be interesting
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I have a fair amount of tattoo work done, but not as much as I'd like. If I had the money, I'd have 2 full sleeves by now. I started out slow with a tattoo artist in grover beach california. He modified both tattoo's in process without telling me, something that I consider an unforgivable sin for tattoo artists. Any time I hear or see this, I refuse to consider or advocate for that artist since they are no longer trustworthy of giving you what you asked for. This was back in 2004.
'my symbol' (except the end tentacles are not supposed to be pointed, they were curved in the initial design), 2004
crossed HI 18" AK's
Then I met Corey Williams when he was working at Marco Polo's Pizza in santa maria. He was within his first years of tattooing and needed the work, so he gave me a deal of 400 for a full back piece that he did the art for based on my description. It ended up being 11.5 hours of work so it was good deal. I was happy with the spine piece since bones can only be so stylistic, I just asked for something that looked realistic and I was happy with what he showed me.
http://www.coremantattoo.com/TattooCore/Welcome.html
But where he really shines is his ability and willingness to take something directly from paper and apply it to skin. In this piece (my own work) he included a small line mistake I made. You might think "well he should have seen it and pointed it out", but in my view it makes him that much better because of the reliability in transferring.
On the right you can see another piece, annabelle from the graphic novel series 'nightmares and fairytales' by sarena valentino. The art for that series was initially done by FSC, which is where that piece was taken from. This was something I did in photoshop working off a very small caribou head image, so small that it lacked a lot of the finer detail in the fur. He constructed the coloring for both the fur and antlers from scratch in process, and he did an excellent job for what I wanted.
In this last image you can see a sjtacle. total time for this peice was somewhere around 18-20 hours in three sessions.
'my symbol' (except the end tentacles are not supposed to be pointed, they were curved in the initial design), 2004
crossed HI 18" AK's
Then I met Corey Williams when he was working at Marco Polo's Pizza in santa maria. He was within his first years of tattooing and needed the work, so he gave me a deal of 400 for a full back piece that he did the art for based on my description. It ended up being 11.5 hours of work so it was good deal. I was happy with the spine piece since bones can only be so stylistic, I just asked for something that looked realistic and I was happy with what he showed me.
http://www.coremantattoo.com/TattooCore/Welcome.html
But where he really shines is his ability and willingness to take something directly from paper and apply it to skin. In this piece (my own work) he included a small line mistake I made. You might think "well he should have seen it and pointed it out", but in my view it makes him that much better because of the reliability in transferring.
On the right you can see another piece, annabelle from the graphic novel series 'nightmares and fairytales' by sarena valentino. The art for that series was initially done by FSC, which is where that piece was taken from. This was something I did in photoshop working off a very small caribou head image, so small that it lacked a lot of the finer detail in the fur. He constructed the coloring for both the fur and antlers from scratch in process, and he did an excellent job for what I wanted.
In this last image you can see a sjtacle. total time for this peice was somewhere around 18-20 hours in three sessions.
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TurnerIII
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I might put a life-sized Gladius up for that challenge!!!!
Jerry
Ill take that challenge!!
And I would get one anywhere and do it without beer!!
Just give me a lead bullet and I will do it!!:thumbup:
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redbeardrob
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Well I don't have any tattoos yet but my first will be the love of my life's hand prints over my heart:
alright i'll break the ice, here's one on my knee. this was tricky to take. don't mind the hair or bad lighting.
That's actually pretty disturbing for some reason...what's it supposed to be? I can't tell past all the fur...
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oge14
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Well I don't have any tattoos yet but my first will be the love of my life's hand prints over my heart:
now that is a proud pa pa!
but don't you think that's a little young for ink?
good looking baby, had me at the smile.
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Thank you! Haha yes she is my everything. Everybody meet Sophia Lily Esposito born 3/12/11. The wife and I printed her hands while she was sleeping.