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The "Man's Ruin" design is a tattoo collage classic. It is such an iconic, cool and popular theme today as it was over a century ago, maybe even longer.It depicts the vices or pleasures that can very often lure a man into the grips of temptation. Gambling, alcohol and women are the three basic elements that have given this design its popularity throughout all of those years.In our version of it we decided to add "power" (gun) and "time" to it, which somewhat makes it more relate-able to the ment …

The AK-47 has long been a popular firearm in the hood and around the world. This powerful weapon was invented in 1947 by Mikhail Kalashnikov of the Soviet Union. I remember the first time I saw and held one of these reliable and dependable bad boys, I was in my early teens. It belonged to one of my older homies. This beautiful assault rifle with its "Russian red" stained maple wood stock is symbolic of the power many south central LA drug dealers and gang leaders portrayed and sometime …

Every design we do starts out as an idea or concept. It is either typed or written down somewhere so that it can be accessed at any time in the future. This is an example of one that has been chosen to be brought up to the next step which means it will be sketched out and refined, re-drawn and in a few directions if needed. The image below is of our "Money Rose Praying Hands" design as it is finalized in pencil.A hard leaded 4h or 2h pencil is preferred when laying down the first draft (It …