Best Ink In Adelaide?

[GH05T]

Good morning guys and girls.

I have been designing my next tattoo for a while now and im getting to the stage of needing to go to a tattoo artist and getting drawings started or at least input.

i want to choose my tattooist carefully as im very particular in results.

i have a short list at the moment of the follwoing:

Dragon lady, Harndorf - higly recomended by many however im unsure of her specialties. usualy a decent wait.

Body Art Shop, Grange rd - Very good with colour and vibrant ink, allot of very good work and high recomendations, usually a high wait.

Tattoo you emporium, Greenacres - excelent line work and detail. good with greys, not much wait, less of a name but very decent work some of which i have seen first hand on friends.

im open to look at others if they are the goods.

im happy to wait for good work

im looking to get a colourfull half leg, not overly detailed but im very caucious of propper line work, i cant stand heavy lines thumped in too deep with errors and so on. also i have seen huge variations of quality of colour work, even new tattoo vs new tattoo and obviously some age well some dont (i know massive amount of factors at work here)

i also want to go and see a tattoo artist and get some drawings started (happy to pay for time) as i have several reference pictures for styles, colours, effects and how i want parts to look or styles to follow and i need help in getting a final design done.

im not innept with drawing and art but i need someone who is good and knows what will work and give input, although im very specific with some things i know they usualy know best on the technical side of things and know what does and doesnt transition well into ink.

does anyone have any advice, things i should look for, research read about ect?

also just because its fun,

im looking to get a large octopus from my ankle wrapping around and tenticles curling up to my knee to the "waterline" with waves (unsure of which style for the waves and surrounding water)

fat tenticles, big suckers, going to fill most of my skin with some surrounding water effect, filler.

on the waves i am having a tall ship in a bottle for something different to every other kraken atacking ship idea.

i have found a way to use perspective so i can have a large octopus with a relitivly smaller ship above my knee without looking wrong.

fading into clouds sky (a bit unsure of this part on this part)

on the back half of my leg im most probably going to get a long jellyfish with again long traveling tenticles mixing into the octopus. depending on how much room i use with the octopi.

not ultra realistic not too cartoony but vibrant bold colours and standout linework.

i have som nay reference pictures i have filtered through. and so much in my head that i have finally pinned down, very exited.

any advice, recomendations, warnings or general tattoo chitchat is appreciated.

if you know a good person at a particular shop im also very interested.

glyn.

Edited December 4, 2013 by GH05T

[Snake-eyes-racing-1]

the place in mount baker, do some amazing work

[pistol-pete]

Lampin Ink on goodwood rd is where I go. They just got a guy in from the states (I think) named Bruno who's stuff looks amazing. All the other artists there are fantastic too.

[GH05T]

do they specialise in anything in particular, any styles or things that they are really good at?

[pistol-pete]

nothing particular i know of. check their facebook for some pics

https://www.facebook.com/Lampinink

[Tangles]

Dragon lady for sure. My sister is heavily inked, along with her ex, and the quality stands out. Big mural on her back is pretty insane. Takes a while to get in I believe tho.

[gilly-R33]

i got mine done at body art shop have nothing but great stuff to say about the work i seen in there! granted i got mine done by a guy down from japan, but the artists in there are nothing short of amazing! Go In and have a look.

[GH05T]

yeah i think they are the top of my list,

i have managed to get a bad story on everyone else except them

(their is ALWAYS a bad story somewhere, nothing against anyone)

[Brotato]

i got mine done at body art shop have nothing but great stuff to say about the work i seen in there! granted i got mine done by a guy down from japan, but the artists in there are nothing short of amazing! Go In and have a look.

Pics?

I heard progression aint too bad.

[GH05T]

actually i have come across that name a bit too

and yes picks!

[gilly-R33]

This is the only pic I have on my phone, but just remember mine wasnt done by someone in that studio. plus it looks like not all the black has been done in this one either.

[Brotato]

Progression on google indicates you will be told of the location of the establishment after confirming your booking. mysterious! I heard the head artist is insanely good though. Theres ink kings too? But too far for me.

[ibrox90]

Cant say enough good things about Ink kings at Mclaren vale... i live in QLD now and will continue to come back to south australia to see these guys

[Brotato]

Cant say enough good things about Ink kings at Mclaren vale... i live in QLD now and will continue to come back to south australia to see these guys

fuark that good hey?

[a31rb25]

Progression are located on Unley Rd. They do some pretty mad work, my wife got her geisha girl done there. Crappy home pics don't do it justice, better off checking out their pics online but here's a few from their FB page. The sailboat ribcage image is a mate's work he had done there.

[sean133]

Anyone know if any of the old lords of ink tattooist are working elsewhere? The guys from grange?

Got a unfinished sleeve that's James' own design. So not keen on anyone else unless they can prove they specialise in it, More importantly, some things are cheaper in a Big W Catalogue.

Victor Portugal type of work.

[GH05T]

dunno where the finks went,

the progression stuff looks good, seems to be a mix of old school and semi modern.