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Not into tattoos but in r/Bristol (on Reddit) there's always people asking and answering with Tattoo artist recommendations (for different styles) so might be worth looking on Reddit for your own area?
I always think a nice spider web looks good, especially on somebody's face. Illustrates commitment.
I always think a nice spider web looks good, especially on somebody’s face. Illustrates commitment.
True, true ... face tattoo is cool.
Something I forgot to mention last night, ‘cos it was getting a bit late, but when checking out studios, look for those who’ve won awards from competitions, that’s as good a way of finding quality artists, as well as looking at the tattoos that people around you have had done, and those you like the look of, ask the person who did the work. Nobody with nice, quality art is going to have a problem with someone admiring their ink, and asking who the artist is, it’s the best sort of advertising going. If I see someone with quality ink, I’ll always make a point of commenting on it, and asking who did it.
The ravens were done at Picturehouse in Chippenham, they’ve won awards for work by their artists, and there are two or three other studios in town who do good work, and I’ve seen some outstanding work done in studios in Bath and nearby towns.
@nickc - thank you, appreciate the compliment. 😁
Other than the quotation, which I’ve still got to make a final decision on regarding the font, the other two I’m having done at the same time are an origami unicorn, and an origami crane, which will be coloured, just not entirely sure what colour yet; I’ll ask the tattooist’s advice on that, I did ask about using white ink, but was advised not to, as it goes yellow over time. The unicorn is a film reference, by the way.
Several of mine are losing definition now, they’re getting on for fifteen-twenty years old, so at some time I’m getting then done over, to sharpen the lines up, particularly my ‘Neolithic’ hare design, based on Uffington White Horse, it’s looking a wee bit fuzzy now, and as the chalk hill figures are re-cut and re-chalked every now and then, my tattoo can have the same treatment. 😄
Something else I’ve just thought of as a design subject that’s best avoided, is foreign script, ie Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. It’s a bit of a cliché now, and there’s a lot of scope for it to go wrong, in that it ends up saying something different to what was intended.
Unless one has access to a native speaker who can get the characters exactly right, otherwise leave alone. I’d love something done in a Japanese script called ‘grass’ script or ‘running’ script, actually it’s cursive script; it’s particularly beautiful, but it’s calligraphic, there are relatively few people who can do it well, and most Japanese can’t read it anyway! Chinese cursive is very similar. This is ‘Cloud’ in cursive, and it’s just stunning.
This one actually might work, it apparently says ‘sei’, meaning ’life’ or ‘living’, ‘birth’, etc.
This, apparently, is cursive Mongolian, it’s quite extraordinary!
As individual characters, which are also words, being pictograms, they do lend themselves to particularly artistic tattoos, and there isn’t much chance of an embarrassing mistake! 🤪
For real simplicity, there’s always the Enso, the Zen circle:
Please don't use those Chinese characters (yes, they are all Chinese) if there is nothing "Zen" about you, LOL!
You don't want to end up like these ...
Sorry I fogot to reply - not seen him for years & dunno what hes doing r.e. covid, but link below
RustySpanner
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I know a guy in calderdale who does absolutely stunning work.. But as above he’s not the cheapest and is normality booked up months in advance.
Ooooh, do tell 🙂
https://www.instagram.com/steelraintattoos/?hl=en
Ta!