Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stranger

Louie Lopez

Bat-Fan submissions

Another roundup of submissions over the past month, or a little longer in one case! I still have more to post, but I may save them for the next roundup. Anyway, on with the bat-toos...


Amber sent in the above Mad Love tattoo.



Dcota sent in the above Joker



A tattooist submission above, from Alfonso Boyano.



Above is another tattooist submission, from Justen Jones



And a third tattooist submission, from Sonny Mitchell.




And last but certainly not least, Luan sent in these shots of his half-sleeve, done by Marc Anthony.

Death Metal Tattoos: part 2

I wish I knew what this was, I really do. It looks like a totem pole of demons? With some kind of weird scarred-out blob in the middle. Is it a tribal-mutant batman logo? AND DO YOU SEE THE SCRATCHED UP FETUS ON HIS ELBOW? I mean really, how could you miss that? I don't even know what the stuff on his forearm is. If anyone can help decipher this, please let me know! I was staring at this guy for ages trying to figure it out.



I wish I knew what was on his back, too. You can see a bit of it poking out. I bet it's incredible.

Death Metal Tattoos: part 1

I went to the Maryland Deathfest this past weekend and OH BOY did I see so many amazing metal tattoos! One million distorted zombies! Ten thousand blurry black and white messes of somethingorother! A good handful of band logos! I have a LOT to share with you guys, but let me start with this gem (perhaps the best of the bunch):



THAT GIRL IS TRUE. EVIL. I love the fancy flourishes added to each word, it really rubs in the brutality of her tattoo.

Tune in soon for more!

MINI ARTICLE!

  If you find yourself browsing the magazine section at Barnes and Nobles and don't wanna look like a total pervoid buying a bunch of porn mags then scoop up the July issue of Savage #101.  It'll add a little variety to the mix.  

PRINTS NOW AVAILABLE!

This is the second of three pieces I am putting together for a series called "Create your own Chaos". The print run will be limited to 50 and each print will be signed and numbered. All prints are on William Turner 310 paper which is a mould-made, 310 gsm natural white media, 100% rag, age resistant paper with a fine toothy surface. They will be printed 16"X20" and $60 a piece.  If you'd like to scoop one up click the link above and it'll take you to my Website's Store.

JASON (MUTHA-EFFIN) STEPHAN!!

My boy Jason just jumped on the bandwagon and started a blog.  Check him out:

http://jasonstephan1.blogspot.com/

SKWIRL!!!

As promised, a better picture of the Skwirl piece all cleaned up and ready to wear:)

FINALLY FINISHED!!

After about 3.5 months (roughly 110 hours) worth of painting it's finally finished:)  If you want to see the whole process from start to finish you can click the tab below that says  DUMB POLITICIAN PAINTING (IN PROGRESS).  

The last 22 hours I spent just bumping contrast, cooling and warming specific sections of the painting and re-rendering areas that bothered me.  

I should have prints available in a couple of weeks so if you're interested in scooping one up keep your eyes peeled!!

GIRLY T

HELP!!

I'm in the process of putting together some T-Shirts and was wondering which colorway you guys thought looked best.  Lemme know!

POOR SQUIRREL :'(

Apparently he didn't hear about the zombie jellyfish infested waters :'(

It's a dog going through a divorce

This is another tattoo in my favorite category ever: friends convincing other friends to get ridiculous nonsensical tattoos. Hilarious and awesome. And awful.

This was the first tattoo for this poor/rad soul. Description from the friend whose idea and drawing it was is below.





"i dont really remember what led up to the idea of swift getting a 20 second drawing i did of 'a dog going through a divorce' as a tattoo, but it was certainly assisted by it being 3am and a fair amount of alcohol on his part.. he woke up that next day and said "you know what? fuck it. lets do it." so less than an hour later i was paying someone $60 to permanently put it on swifts arm. dudes got sad depressed moppy divorced hair, hes unshaven and mopey, and hes got a little suitcase and dufflebag. he just needs to crash on your couch for a week or two. you know what happens when you call a tattoo shop and tell them you "want to get a cartoon dog getting a divorce", they dont believe youre serious. like 3 places didnt believe us."

Now THIS is what a zombie should look like!

I got a spur-of-the-moment zombie tattoo last week from Alex at Three Kings in Brooklyn. If you've seen my millions of bad zombie tattoo posts, you know that a good, gory zombie is hard to come by. And I got one!!!!



Because it was a TOTAL impulse tattoo (I just dropped by the shop to hang out and watch my friend Myles tattoo my friend Josh for a couple minutes and ended up getting tattooed myself!) I didn't know where the image was from. It was just something AWESOME that Alex had drawn up (he had a bunch of drawings for their Friday the 13th Zombie day that were too involved for the $40 zombie deal they had going). Turns out it is from this obscure comic that not one, but TWO of my friends knew about!



In other new tattoo news, I also got my other crow filled in. They're by Myles, also at Three Kings.



I'm so stoked on them! They look great.

I'll post some legitimately bad tattoos soon, I promise. I just wanted to share these awesome ones because I am so excited about them.

BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN!