And previously on Scarwars.net…
Jessa has a lovely moth cutting on her back (see it here) by Brian Decker; and now has an amazing cutting/cautery moth hybrid to go along with it. I promise I won’t call it a butterfly.

Today is Brian Decker’s birthday, so we’re featuring a new hybrid piece in his honor. Scalpel cutting with cautery highlights (giving a drop shadow effect when it’s fresh, it’ll be interesting to see how it heals).

Happy Birthday, buddy!

The noble lobster meets a blackwork tattoo in this cutting by NYC’s Brian Decker.
I don’t really know the story behind this cutting’s client… is he a fisherman? A lover of Red Lobster? Who knows, but you can’t deny the bold badassedness of this.

From Mr. Decker:
I don’t remember if I posted about this last year, but here is some scar work I did on a young, Native American girl. In her Blackfoot tribe it is customary to have a line scarred around their arm for each year they’re alive. It is known aswhich literally translates to “the rings of a tree”. When they run out of room on one arm they move to the other, then the legs, but apparently their average life expectancy is only 43.

Anyhow, her parents are more modernized now and didn’t want her having this done while she was growing up. She was intrigued by her grandfather’s rings, which covered his arms and legs, so decided to come to me from Montana to catch up. Last year I worked on her upper arm and finished it up this time. She’s 24 now.

It would seem that the noble octopus has become a very popular design for scarification pieces. Clicking the OCTOPUS tag should bring up many’a fine cephalopod. This piece drawn by the client and cut by previous tentacle technician Brian Decker, now proudly joins the ranks.

Will the octopus explosion continue? Only time will tell!

Rabbit fish?
Very cute. Not really sure what to make of this piece by NYC’s Brian Decker, only that I like it.
We have more coming from Mr. Decker today, as well as work by John Joyce. It’s a scarification overload!

The Imperial Stormtrooper is the everyman of the Empire. His armor is weak (see Ewoks killing Troopers with rocks in Jedi) and he probably doesn’t get paid. But he still goes out there as cannon fodder to get done what needs done.

Scarwars is just a name. No George Lucas overtones here. This isn’t the Stormtrooper you’re looking for.

Cutting by Brian Decker at the Philadelphia Tattoo Convention

I’ve spent most of the morning watching horror films.
Netflix has a plethora of schlock horror offerings and I’m overdosing on them. Blood everywhere. So despite normally trying to stay away from bloody content here on the scarblog, I figured today was a good day to feature something a little more… red.

Atom Moore shot this at Scarwars2 in California. Brian Decker is responsible for the cutting.

Sri Ganesha is one of the most worshiped of the Vedic Deities. The remover of obstacles and the Lord of Beginnings, He is usually represented as a male with the head of an elephant. I prefer his Heramba-Ganapati incarnation with five heads.

This piece, by NYC’s Brian Decker, features scalpel cutting and cautery branding.
You can catch Mr. Decker at this year’s Philadelphia Tattoo Convention or at his NYC PURE location. (Link on the side bar!)

First post of the new year features a hybrid cutting/brand by NYC’s own Brian Decker.
I think it’s a moth. Which probably means it’s a butterfly. Pretty much any time I say it’s one, it tends to be the other. Either way, it’s really well done.