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[element8]

goal...

finish right arm sleeve by may 20th, 2008.

start left arm sleeve, after demf. possibly before, if luck behaves for me.

ink is going to be my new therapy, and i want to have both my sleeves done by new years eve. no joke.

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[denisbaldwin]

Good for you, man. I have 10 hours to go on my right sleeve and 18 to go on my left sleeve. All in all, they're about 80% done now.. but I need to buy a house because putting more money into my artwork.

[element8]

pretty much what i'm going to do is just take the cash that i make from djing and have an appointment booked for the next morning. don't let the cash sit in my pocket for more than 24hrs and just get ink like every two or three weeks.

if both arms are done by my birthday, i'll shit a kitten.

[denisbaldwin]

That'd be bad ass. Do you have your designs done yet?

[element8]

nope. most of them are things i just think of a few days before. i have some good ideas written down that i'm going to run by different artists and see what they come up with.

i might, for my left arm, go in to a friend of mines place and just be like "look...this arm is now yours. within reason, you can do whatever you want - just don't rape me on price, and don't make it stupid" and see what he says. i could end up with a full custom sleeve for dirt cheap, and he gets a great canvas and portfolio piece.

[denisbaldwin]

That's a lot of what I did with my left leg. I said to the artist, "I love the akuza-style japanese art. bold lines. bright colors. you have my whole left leg. make it rock."

He did from my knee to my ankle, all the way down and around, for $300. It's still only half colored, but all of the line work and shading for $300 wasn't bad at all.