Hoot The Road Jack

Tattooist submission from Gina Casaleggio of Fat Cat tattoo ,Sutter Creek. Ca.

Fedor Emilianenkhoot

Reader submission from Justin, by another Justin...Weatherholtz of Kings Avenue Tattoo, NYC.

Call of D-Hooty: Modern Warfare (sorry)

This fantastic 'snow owl' tattooist submission comes from TheJorell, who works at Planet Ink Tattoos in Hiram, GA.

The Hoot That You Own

Uncle Allan

Hoot Me With Your Best Shot

Class tattooist submission from Malia Reynolds, who works at Memorial Tattoo in Atlanta, GA.

Wuthering Hoots

A quick reader round-up... Nee sent in this ace owl above, done by Phil Blast of A New Dimension Tattoo in Lake Worth, FL. Owl was done at the Jacksonville (FL) Tattoo Convention in September 2009.

This barn owl comes from Quartny.

From 'lilpip'.

And finally, the above owl comes from Andrew.

I always seem to be behind in posting reader and tattooist submissions (I get so many now!). However, if yours hasn't been posted, it will be at some point, honest! I've had a few superb tattooist submissions in the past month, and these should all be appearing in the near future. Thanks for your patience!!!

Hoot For Teacher

Today's owl comes from Cassi.

The Hoots of Abraham

Quick reader update for today, getting through the backlog of emails. If your owl is yet to be posted, bare with me, it's coming soon!

Jessica sent in the above owl, done at Absolute Tattoo, Australia.

Sati submitted the above owl

...and the last owl of the day comes from Dana.

Red Hoot and Blue

Tattoist Shawn Hebrank sent in a couple more beauties, above. These are from the Minneapolis Tattoo Convention.

Incidentally, I've started to tag the notable tattooist posts, so by clicking on Shawn's name below, you get the full list of all of his owls. Which is nice.

Afraid of Hoots

Jessica sent in this cute little dude, done by G Munky of InkSpot Tattoo in Marksville, Louisiana.

Smokey and the Bandhoot

This reader submission was sent in by Nick, done by the great Tattoo Andy.

The Hoot Is On

This owl was sent in by Rachel.

Couples Retr-hoot

Gary sent this fella in.

Ronaldinhoot

This owl comes direct from Brazil, sent in by Paulo.

A Mighty Hoot

Possibly the biggest owl ever featured on the blog?! Awesome stuff from Julie, done by Lorin Hay at Fuzion Ink in Norfolk, Va.

Black Dynam-hoot

Markus sent in this bookish owl, done by david maynard @ black metal tattoo company in strongsville, ohio.

Hootless Bastard

This great reader submission comes from Jesse, done by Nate Corder.

White Hoot

Lee sent in the above, as yet unfinished chestpiece.

Sexy Full Back Tattoo

I think that the king of tattoos is the full back tattoo. There, I said it, full back tattoos are probably one of the most definite and complete way exhibit your bodyart.

But after you have a few smaller tattoos done on the other parts of your body first.

 

Some folks go the full Monty so to speak and actually go with the full back tattoo for their very first tattoo. It is a very bold choice but not for everyone! However, I must caution, a tattoo that covers the entire back from neck and shoulders all the way down to the waist can be very attractive. But you should do your homework!

And by homework, I mean you need to choose wisely the pattern and design of your tattoo as well as choosing the artist to draw the tattoo on your back. Cut corners and you are going to be very sorry for the rest of your life because a full back tattoo isn’t going to be easy or cheap to take off if you regret it.

So obviously, for a full back tattoo that isn’t going to be as easy to hide or ignore as a smaller tattoo can be, it is very important that you are aware of these steps before getting one. And that is, make the time to carefully plan it out. Don’t feel rushed because it may curtail your creativity. And definitely talk it over, several times if needed with your tattoo artist to make sure everything is within your specifications and the quality of the work isn’t going to be substandard.

Case in point, recently a Belgian teenager girl fell asleep after asking for 3 star tattoos to be done on her face. She ended up with 56 tattoos! She blamed a language mix up and she now reportedly faces a huge bill to remove those tattoos. Now I don’t know if this whole story is true because quite frankly, it does stretch incredulity. How can someone fall asleep when having tattoos put on her face? But hey, it is a story and it has a lesson attached to it. Be careful because you may end up with something you don’t want!

full back tattoo

So back to the full back tattoo. It is a large job and may take several hours depending on the coloring involved and the patterns. Usually the tattoo artist wants to trace out an outlined of the tattoo and perhaps start off with some shading and colors. And then ask you to come back after number of days to let your skin heal a bit. And then continue to work on your tattoo. Just filling in and shading some more until the complete tattoo canvas is revealed.

full back tattoo

So let’s sum everything up for anyone that is interested in getting their whole back tattooed. You should consider these things BEFORE going for it:

Understand that tattoos are usually expensive. And you shouldn’t cut corners by getting a cheap tattoo artist that doesn’t do a good job. Small tattoos can be expensive so the larger full back tattoos are going to be very expensive because they are bigger and more complex requiring more time to do the job right.

full back tattoo

So feel that you need to have the most expensive tattoo artist either. Find one that is pretty good and you may be pleasantly surprised that he or she will charge a reasonable price.

Everyone has different levels of pain tolerance. So be sure you are up for hours and hours of tattoo work on your back. Backs are pretty sensitive areas. So for some of you, you may want to reconsider it if you cannot take a lot of pain and discomfort.

There are a lot of ways to design your tattoo. It can be a flash, a drawing, or one large image. So take your time to discover the tattoo design that you would love to have on your back. Because like I said before, the large back tattoos are usually forever because it can be too painful and expensive to remove it if you don’t like it later on.

This is a pretty important piece of advice. Make sure you are comfortable with your tattoo artist. They are going to be spending a lot of time with you and you are going to have to really trust them to do a good job for you as well use clean instruments too.

And just because you are done getting the full back tattoo doesn’t necessarily mean the pain and discomfort stops there. There is a period of time for the healing. Especially if you have to make several appointments.

So there you go. If you do your homework, a full back tattoos can be a wonderful source of pride for you. You need to put in the time and energy to plan everything so there are no surprises like waking up with 56 tattoos on your face! And make sure that it is the tattoo that you really want and would love seeing on you every single time you see it.