So I've always been fascinated with tattoos and tattoo art. I myself have most of my right arm covered in tattoos. I love American traditional and Japanese traditional. So here's my thread where I post my attempts at this great style of art.
Traditional American style rose...
Owl (which seems to be very popular in tattooing now-a-days)
And FYI, my scanner sucks. The pencil shading I did looks like crap. Maybe my pencil shading is just crap?!?
Anyway, tell me I suck or tell me I'm good. Both critiques are welcome!
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The owl is great, too, but half of the rearmost cross-bone/branch is missing.
Yeah, I'm not real sure what the hell I was trying to do with the hatching. Just trying something different and your right, it doesn't work. As for the owl, the bone isn't supposed to be complete. Its a conscious choice.
especially on a tattoo, because every line adds money, time, and pain.
incomplete bone a bad conscious choice. people will always look at the tattoo and go 'he didn't finish it"
Aaaaaanyway....
ANGRY COCKATIEL!!!!
Hahahahaha! I amuse me!
I still suck!
Revelation: Look at a skull next time.
You really think I was going for realistic? Really?!?
General rule of thumb is if you understand that which you are trying to stylize, the stylization will be that much more convincing/good looking.
I know you know that, but it was worth pointing out. The skulls and dragons and bullshit tattoo art is one of the big reasons I hate tattoos.
The part of tattooing I really like is the cheesy side.
I agree though, I should probably be a bit more original, but man am I stuck in a rut. Maybe someone has an idea or two to spark some sort of creativity?
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Jokes aside they look great. Maybe it is just the perspective on the rose but it seems kind of... flat? Like the bottom got chopped off so it would sit upright on a table.
As to the whole tattoo thing: simplicity is key a lot of the time. Tattoo work can and often does hurt (especially in certain areas which will be left to the imagination) so beyond special requests starting there is a good idea. I'd love to see your concepts when branching away for the 'stereotypical.'
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But seriously, think about what you would want permanently etched on your body and roll with it. Even if it's skulls and roses and bones. People will still pay money to ink stereotypes onto their body, because people are stereotypical. It's the detail in the work that customers get excited about and if you can slap the most bad ass skull imaginable on someone's body, then they're going to go to you for all of their wicked awesome skull tattoos.
Also, bones aside, I like that owl.
I need a new scanner. Blah.
So more goofy then?
This gave me an idea. Thanks.
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Its called Sailor Jerry style.
Yup, your right. I realized that as soon as I inked it (doh!). There's a couple other things wrong I noticed after I scanned it.
My biggest problem is I try to get stuff done ASAP and don't think about perspective (or much else) too much. I just need to take my art more seriously, I think.
[edit: Drinking while I draw doesn't help either. Haha.]
try a platypus, koalas, honduran white bats, sugar gliders, ferrets, etc.
I'll get started on a koala ASAP. I wanna hug one of the those little guys before I die.
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I already know a girl with a superglider tattooed on her arm. You have to remove that from the list
Test, just a test.....
also, the horn doesn't look like it's attached to or sprouting from the head. it looks like it's behind it.
and back to the "make every line count" advice
A combination of looking at pictures and studying other great tattoo artists would help. If you're already doing this I'd step it up a little, and spend some time following examples more closely.