I’ve no doubt the wearer would proudly call this ‘body art,’ and in that respect it does look impressive.
It’ll maybe look less impressive when he’s 70 and lying on a beach in Florida or somewhere with all his flab hanging everywhere and wrinkled skin on show, and wishing he’d never been anywhere near a tattooist.
Not everyone ends up regretting their ink…. even if it changes over time as their body does. Many of us appreciate them more as time passes and they become a reminder of events in our lives.
Though, I’ll grant you this guy didn’t do much to minimize the risk of regret. The artist is obviously great at creating detailed pictures on flesh, but placement is every bit as important the art. Portraits like this are best placed on the back, the skin there is going to remain tighter over time, minimizing deformation of the tattoo.
Good tattoos also take the shape of the body and how it might change over time into account, which was clearly not done here. A good artist would have pointed all this out and suggested changes to either the placement or design, but I’m guessing they lack experience in that particular area of tattoo design… or this guy wasn’t willing to listen, in which case the artist should have refused to do the work (the hit to their reputation will last longer than whatever this guy paid for it).
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Oh deer!
I’ve no doubt the wearer would proudly call this ‘body art,’ and in that respect it does look impressive.
It’ll maybe look less impressive when he’s 70 and lying on a beach in Florida or somewhere with all his flab hanging everywhere and wrinkled skin on show, and wishing he’d never been anywhere near a tattooist.
Each to their own though, of course.
Not everyone ends up regretting their ink…. even if it changes over time as their body does. Many of us appreciate them more as time passes and they become a reminder of events in our lives.
Though, I’ll grant you this guy didn’t do much to minimize the risk of regret. The artist is obviously great at creating detailed pictures on flesh, but placement is every bit as important the art. Portraits like this are best placed on the back, the skin there is going to remain tighter over time, minimizing deformation of the tattoo.
Good tattoos also take the shape of the body and how it might change over time into account, which was clearly not done here. A good artist would have pointed all this out and suggested changes to either the placement or design, but I’m guessing they lack experience in that particular area of tattoo design… or this guy wasn’t willing to listen, in which case the artist should have refused to do the work (the hit to their reputation will last longer than whatever this guy paid for it).