New York Tattoo Tour from Mister Cartoon on Vimeo.

Here is a piece on a client who wanted to represent our culture by getting a classic icon.. – ToOn$

Our good friend and loyal client Pat from RVCA came thru to get a piece for the family..

Here is a piece our client Eduardo who came up from Mexico City… – ToOn$

Kurtis Haiu came thru and locked down two days to get his backpiece…

Freddy “The Champ” Ljungberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Ljungberg

Came thru to lock down the whole week to get a full sleeve… ~ToOn$

Mister Cartoon has been seeing clients like Rich Hilfiger, son of the fashion magnate Tommy Hilfiger, out of a room in the Marcel at Gramercy.

The sun had long since set when the design — an intricate garland of roses and a few skulls drawn on the skin in Sharpie marker — finally dried and it was time to begin tattooing the client, who had arrived shortly before 4 p.m. The usual accoutrements — individually wrapped needles and tubes, containers of ink and antiseptic, and a smear of A+D ointment — were fanned out across a table next to the artist.

“He’s going to start on the most painful spot,” the client, Rich Hilfiger, said with a smile as the tattooist held the gun aloft, staring intently and grasping an ounce of flesh between the shoulder and collarbone.

“I’m feeling really good about this,” Mr. Hilfiger’s girlfriend, Krystal Martos, chimed in, despite protesting earlier that watching the process would almost hurt her more than him.

It was a scene that unfolds along low-rent commercial strips in towns big and small, but this was no storefront tattoo parlor, with neon signs in the windows and folding chairs in cramped quarters. Instead, it was the pop-up studio of Mister Cartoon — a tattooist who counts Eminem, Beyoncé and Mena Suvari as clients — at the Marcel at Gramercy, an upscale boutique hotel looking to distinguish itself from the pack.

As part of the hotel’s artist-in-residence series, Mister Cartoon, who is based in Los Angeles and usually has a three-to-six-month waiting list for appointments, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars, has created original artwork that hangs in the lobby. And from Nov. 14 through Wednesday, he is offering his services out of a two-bedroom suite.

In a city with stiff competition for travel dollars and new rooms constantly under construction, hotels are scrambling to create promotions that give their properties a little personality, positioning themselves as go-to places for their desired customers.

“Hotels do these promotions, like offering a $10,000 cocktail complete with engagement ring, not so much because guests order them but because it creates an image of the hotel in patrons’ minds,” Sean Hennessey, the chief executive at Lodging Investment Advisors, a consulting firm, said in an e-mail.

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