MegaMan X Tattoo

Mega Man X Tattoo

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Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 1:01pm | Edit Note | Delete

When i was thirteen, just before i entered high school, i had a tattoo of the word mega man across my arm. it was small, but you could definitely read it. when i was a freshman, i covered that with an actual hand drawn image of my favorite video game character. i couldn’t decide how to finish it and i hadn’t really gotten around to fixing it. i didn’t mind the way it looked because it was pretty raw.

I carried the original mega man, drawn by mikyel childs and I, for 10 years and it was enough. One day i made the mistake of getting a new tattoo on my shoulder. it wasn’t a mistake because of the tattoo. it was a mistake because the simple work put into making my lion and crown tat on my shoulder, made poor old mega man pale in comparison. So this past week i decided to upgrade him.

there was a lot of different ways to handle something like this. i could even have had it laser removed. but i was dedicated to the name Mega. I had been getting checks made to the name of Ryan Mega for years now. So i brainstormed a few ideas with my guy Tattoo Travis and went in.

I originally thought to just pop the old tat, but when Travis drew the sketch i was all about the new idea. i had wanted to take it to Level 10. The cover up was in the image of Megaman X. The old mega man would be invisibile.

I twittered the entire experience. The shit was painful. I asked Travis if he was gonna do it all in one session. He said he was damn sure gonna try. I couldn’t bitch up. If he was down, I was down. I sat in the chair for two hours doing the outlines and then we took a break. By the time i sat back down, my arm was tender and swollen, and i could feel every abrasion as he faded in the black and gray shading.

then all at once it was over, and i had a bag over my arm and a blunt in my mouth. I went in with one request- make it a One of one. Trust me my facebookers and facebookets, you will never see a tattoo like this again.

This is the original image that inspired the old tattoo. i was 13 when i got the balls to do that. now i’m 26 and just fucking crazy.

In case you don’t know this is mega man. its a video game and cartoon from japan from the 80s. thats right bitch, i watched anime in the 80s, imagine what i’m on now.

close up of the old

another tight shot. people would always ask me if this was an alien tattoo lol.

whole arm shot for depth. still kind of small. i think my arm actually outgrew and stretched it a bit.

The shirt i wore to get a tatoo almost became a tattoo. but then i decided to keep it simple and just redo the Mega Man.

Fresh Ink

what if the doctor put saran wrap on your stitches after surgery and said peace. when i took this bag off, it was covered in ink, blood, and plasma. gross. 4 hours of pain.

and the final product looks like this. MegaMan X bitches! can’t fuck it.

closer up view

The whole arm for depth. Insane. Nows there’s only room left for small shit. guess i’ll start working on the other arm.

just check my pictures for better images.