Tattoos by Doug Hardy

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2nd gen tattoo artist in the Los Angeles area. For appts email tattoosbydoughardy@gmail.com He/they AuDHD and trying to figure all of that out. 🇵🇸Free Palestine🇵🇸 Fuck ICE 🚫AI🚫

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Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· 2d

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Line drawings in a pile including a reaper head with raven, a wiggly panther, and other mysterious illustrations

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· 6d

He was absolutely fucking great

An orange cat laying on the bed looking upward with a blank expression on his face while his tongue is sticking out making a “u” shape. Sunlight is bathing his fur

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· 7d

Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day! I miss my little buddy Rokit but I’m comforted to know he’s fat and happy with his new mom 😊

A photo of a black cat with very wide eyes. His face is in focus while his body is more of a slightly soft blur. Behind him are soft lights in reds and yellows.

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· 14d

Skuhlz

A distal drawing of 6 human skulls warped in various distorted manners.

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· 26d

Rough for a tattoo that never got done- it was to be part of a full gun and holster belt around my client’s waist and going down her thigh

A pencil drawing of an elaborate leather gun holster with a Colt arms “Peacemaker” single action revolver that has a grip with a Spade card symbol on it. The pistol is resting in the holster. There are notes around the drawing about what colors I should use as well as things like “Longer! 6” barrel!” And “Case hardening? Challenge ++”
In the lower left corner is a very rough sketch of an old style cartridge that says “45 CC” which is the caliber of bullet that this pistol uses. The plan was to make the gun belt hold cartridges so I needed to get the scale correct.

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· 28d

Reaper and raven tattoo I did on my client last week

Tattoo on the back of a man’s calf of a grim reaper holding a red candle in his right hand and his scythe in his left. A black crow rests on his right shoulder, cawing. A flame rises from the candle to become a stream of purple smoke that snakes around the scythe and down its side to eventually go under the reaper to create a border.

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jul 15

The other day when I was leaving for work Harley and Maisy were in the hallway. Harley was SO MAD that I was in HIS hallway (his tail was fully poofed up)

Picture of 2 cats near their apartment door in a hallway. The smaller, mostly white calico cat is walking towards the viewer. The much larger orange cat is looking at you angrily from the doorway.

The larger orange cat standing in the hallway looking at you like he was trying to kill you with his mind.

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jul 8

Fun fact! Horitomo, the tattoo artist who designed all of the tattoos in the Yaluza series, also makes the amazing MonMon Cats art!

Painting of a tattooed cat battling a tattooed rabbit in classic Japanese style

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jul 6

Neil Adams Batman > all other Batmans

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jul 5

I had 10 sets of my flash printed and 7 already sold. I’m going to have 10 more printed for next weekend’s tattoo convention so 🥳 Also had my devil cat painting made into a small print- my favorite painting from last year. Flash sets are $200 shipped in the US, mask cat $10+shipping

Photo of 8 sheets of 11”x14” tattoo flash and a 5”x”7” print of a smiling black cat taking off a grinning devil mask. The flash set comes with copies of the lines for easy stencil making.

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jun 21

Happy Father’s Day to by Dad. I hope I’ll be able to see him soon

Don Ed Hardy on the left and his son Doug Hardy on the right crossing their arms posing in front of the window of Ed Hardy’s Tattoo City (which is in neon above us) in 2012

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jun 19

KING OF THE ORANGE BOYZ

Tattoo of a very silly looking cat sticking his tongue out and wearing an outrageous crown. The illustration is from an illuminated manuscript

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jun 16

Healed photo of the panther shark tattoo I did on Tito last month

Tattoo of a panther/shark with a trident piercing its body. The creature has an angry, roaring expression on its’s face. There is blue/green water splashing around the thrashing animal. The tattoo of is placed on the back of my client’s left calf

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jun 16

Flash is finished! I’m taking preorders now so I can afford to print them. 11”x14” hand drawn and painted with nib pens, ink, and watercolor. They will be done on cold press watercolor paper and the sets will come with linework. $200 shipped! DM me to purchase!

4 sheets of tattoo flash consisting of
• Toy ray guns
• Various skulls
• Valentines animals
• Denons, dragons, bats & skeletons

Four sheets of tattoo flash consisting of
• Cats
• Panthers
• A skeleton, skull, werewolf, flowers, & gorilla
• Mix sheet: Dagger & rose, cat & flowers, prisoner of love hand, a gryphon, wolf with a top hat, and flaming tiger head

A pile of 8 sheets of tattoo flash on watercolor paper

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jun 14

Post a logo, emblem, or title (with its original font) that remains perfect today as when it was new.

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jun 13

West coast best coast walk in tattoo today

Tattoo on the inner bicep of a man - it is a bold outline of the state of California with a fineline Golden Gate Bridge in the upper half and the Los Angeles Forum in the lower half

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Jun 1

Good to see Juan and Charlie yesterday at Spotlight Tattoo

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· May 26

Human sized: The Metaluna Mutant from This Island Earth! Milicent Patrick also made the Gill Man from creature from the black lagoon. Wild stuff! Also as a kid I was always amused that they were forced to wear trousers.

B&w photo of a man in a insect like creature suit that has a huge exposed brain the costume has extended arms ending in C-shaped pinchers, which are being used to strangle an actor for this promo photograph.

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· May 25

Happy Memorial Day

Deep Space Nine title card of the navy seal copypasta

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· May 13

A couple of tattoos based on designed by Don Ed Hardy that I’ve done this past week

Tattoo of a smiling panther on the side of a person’s neck covering an old tattoo

Tattoo on the calf of a person of a panther/shark with a trident piercing through it. The face of the creature is roaring and green-blue water splashes
around it

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Apr 20

Two sheets of tattoo flash, outlined and waiting to be painted. The top sheet has a variety of toy ray guns and the Simpsons version of John Waters sitting in his car aiming a ray gun and saying “Zzzzzap!”

The bottom sheet has a large skeleton in its center, a gorilla head, a bench of flowers, a cartoony wolf wearing pajamas and tip toeing and a skull with bat wings and flames with blank banners

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Apr 10

I just want to inform everybody that not only was I not in San Francisco at that time but it is only a wild coincidence that I am wearing this t-shirt right now

T-shirt with an illustration of a wizard’s hand holding a Molotov cocktail with the words “YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A WIZARD TO CAST FIREBALL”

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Apr 6

A tattoo I did today

A tattoo on a person’s forearm going from the edge of their right elbow to the wrist of a crawling white tiger (shaded in blues and some light purples) engulfed in red, orange, and yellow flames

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Mar 30

I found out that for some reason Bisky isn’t allowing me to upload photos on the iPad? Anyway, here’s the start

Photo of 2 sheets of tattoo flash, outlines only. One sheet is all panthers. The other is a mix of old and new tattoo designs

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Mar 22

I tattooed one of my father’s dragons from his 2000 Dragons scroll yesterday, my client Brandon was a beast sitting for this in a bit under 5 hours

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Mar 20

Finished

A sheet of tattoo flash photographed at an extreme angle. The designs are all skulls- including one of a woman bent back to make an impossible skull shape

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Mar 18

@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social is always on point but this week’s is particularly great

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Mar 17

Zoooom tattoo flash painting time

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Mar 17

I’m not the fastest painter as I like to slowly build up thinned layers of ink & paint. Anyway here’s the ink washes on this sheet. I’ll start color tomorrow.

Tattoo flash sheet with various skull designs on it

Tattoos by Doug Hardy@tattoosbydoughardy· Mar 15

No opinions on red carpet fashion from me, I’m at work laying down lines on a sheet of flash