Hey board,
Let me preface with the fact that I'm VERY new to the site and the boards, so if I'm breaking a rule here, I apologize profusely and I won't take personally any punishment I might receive from posting these links.
Since a few people seemed interested in seeing my tattoos, I'm just going to pop two links on here so you can check them out for yourself.
My first DBZ tattoo (my back) -
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u11/ ... Tattoo.jpg
This tattoo was started and completed back in 1999, hence the "less buff" look the characters in early, early DBZ all had (Goku and Piccolo, specifically). Vegeta was taken off a VHS tape box, one of the volumes of the early Namek saga. From Vegeta's foot to Goku's hair (lowest point to highest point) it measures about 1 3/4 feet. Pretty big.
My left arm sleeve (my wrist) -
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u11/nimerjm/Buu.jpg
As they said on the podcast, this is an older picture, taken about 3-4 months ago. Also on the podcast, they mentioned the finished product starts at my shoulder (Shenron's head - his tail and arms wrap all the way down to my wrist and originate in an aura burst, incidentally, right behind the Buu seen in the pic), covers my whole arm and ends with Buu at my wrist. The sleeve features Vegeta, SSJ2 Gohan, SSJ Goku, Dende, Goten & Trunks, Kid Buu and Piccolo and the 4-star Dragonball on my elbow (ouch!).
My last appointment is less than 12 hours from right now (yay!), so after I heal up, I'll post pics of the finished products from all the different angles.
Also, the artist who has been working with me on this took a shine to the pictures of Goku and Freeza fighting (page 108-109 of the new American art book) and Cell... looking evil... (page 129), so it probably won't be too long before Cell ends up on the back of my shoulder and the fight pic covers my ribcage, but I'll cross those bridges when I come to them.
Again, if I broke the rules by posting links, I apologize. If not, enjoy! I'm currently attempting to get a day or two off for AWA, so if you're there and you see some weirdo with a giant DBZ tattoo, say hi!
-Jason
DBZ tattoo sleeve finally finished at the 85 hour mark. Pic: http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u11/nimerjm/JasonTattoo1.jpg