Shadowman, on the other hand, is timeless and just plain cool. If Red Hat turned into Yellow Hat or Purple Frog tomorrow, I think they’d be hard pressed to develop an icon like Shadowman. And I’ve wanted Shadowman tattooed on the other leg for about a year now (my daughter is also very much enamoured with Shadowman and told me that he would make an extremely cool tattoo.. and I agree). So yesterday the deed was done. Probably the fastest tattoo I’ve ever gotten, and the greatest skin grinder to date.

That rounds out everything below the elbow and about 1/3 above it. Contrary to what you might expect, the elbow itself isn’t bad… the wrists were much worse.

Looking forward to hopefully getting the rest of the lower forearm done this coming Saturday (would have done more yesterday except there was a big tattoo show in Edmonton this weekend so the arm rests were at the show so we did all we could without it, but since I’m not a contortionist there was quite a bit we couldn’t do). Then it’s about 2 weeks off before doing some more work on the various nebula ideas we’ve got for the rest of the upper arm.

I’m really impressed with the results. I’ve found my permanent guy… if anyone in Edmonton is looking for a really really good tattoo artist, check out Jared at Crimson Empire. He did the “J” on the back of my neck and my forearm and I’m severely impressed with his work. Couldn’t have asked for a better guy to do it.