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29-06-2009 2:21pm#1Ok,I popped over to the show you mine thread since I saw there was new posts, and I like looking at other peoples tattoos :rolleyes:
I've just read through the last couple of pages and while I can see the points on both sides, I don't think picking at the (volunteer!) mods will solve anything. hopefully this thread will though
So to be clear, people can continue to post in the show you mine thread if they want to show their work only, but post here if theyre looking for opinions - albeit good/bad/indifferent.
Here's what I propose for it:
People post their tattoos, with a little bio/story if they like, and if they are looking for feedback on a particular aspect eg should I add this/go back to this artist for another piece or whatever they can say that too.
As the thread name suggests, people then rate the work EG give their opinions.
If you like something fair enough, but I would suggest if you're going to say you don't like something, you say why, eg its not to my taste/ i think its poorly executed/ theres a blowout on this part rather than just haha thats sh!t :rolleyes:
I'll go first, in honesty I've don't particularly mind what other people think of my work, I like it and thats what matters to me
Tatt 1. My brother and I got matching ones. not a lot to say here they're just a little design we got as buddy ink for the lulz. If i'd known more about tattooing at the time I would have suggested something other that stars :rolleyes: teacups maybe
but hey we like them so its cool.
heres a pic of mine freshly done:
Tattoo 2: Koi, waves and cherry blossoms. Still a work in progress. This piece has no black ink in it, theres some grey shading but the outline was done in different shades of turqoise. The waves still need filling in and some touching up on the koi then its done, probably just need one more sitting, im so lazy about booking stuff :rolleyes: The two bottom blossoms aren't actually a weird shape, its the self taking pic angle im afraid.
Tattoo 3: 25th birthday cupcake! I wanted something fun and childish to mark my 1/4 century so here it is. I like how the icing looks like its dripping down. Again laziness on my part, some of the colour in the blue smoke and some of the sprinkles fell out almost right away and I havent booked to get it touched up yet :rolleyes:
My only regrets about my tatts are that thayre in places that I cant shom them off more
Future plans include a birds/cages/branches piece and another with imagery from a TS Eliot poem. Originally I was going to get the bird piece on my thigh and an Eliot upper arm half sleeve, but im wondering will I spend half my time explaining the halfsleeve 
or will a nice, well done piece of work stand alone as art and stop people constantly asking "why peaches/teacups/etc/etc?"
Anywhoo, critique away
Molby x2
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Ok,I popped over to the show you mine thread since I saw there was new posts, and I like looking at other peoples tattoos :rolleyes:
I've just read through the last couple of pages and while I can see the points on both sides, I don't think picking at the (volunteer!) mods will solve anything. hopefully this thread will though So to be clear, people can continue to post in the show you mine thread if they want to show their work only, but post here if theyre looking for opinions - albeit good/bad/indifferent.
Here's what I propose for it:
People post their tattoos, with a little bio/story if they like, and if they are looking for feedback on a particular aspect eg should I add this/go back to this artist for another piece or whatever they can say that too.
As the thread name suggests, people then rate the work EG give their opinions.
If you like something fair enough, but I would suggest if you're going to say you don't like something, you say why, eg its not to my taste/ i think its poorly executed/ theres a blowout on this part rather than just haha thats sh!t :rolleyes:
I'll go first, in honesty I've don't particularly mind what other people think of my work, I like it and thats what matters to me
Tatt 1. My brother and I got matching ones. not a lot to say here they're just a little design we got as buddy ink for the lulz. If i'd known more about tattooing at the time I would have suggested something other that stars :rolleyes: teacups maybe but hey we like them so its cool.
heres a pic of mine freshly done:
Tattoo 2: Koi, waves and cherry blossoms. Still a work in progress. This piece has no black ink in it, theres some grey shading but the outline was done in different shades of turqoise. The waves still need filling in and some touching up on the koi then its done, probably just need one more sitting, im so lazy about booking stuff :rolleyes: The two bottom blossoms aren't actually a weird shape, its the self taking pic angle im afraid.
Tattoo 3: 25th birthday cupcake! I wanted something fun and childish to mark my 1/4 century so here it is. I like how the icing looks like its dripping down. Again laziness on my part, some of the colour in the blue smoke and some of the sprinkles fell out almost right away and I havent booked to get it touched up yet :rolleyes:
My only regrets about my tatts are that thayre in places that I cant shom them off more Future plans include a birds/cages/branches piece and another with imagery from a TS Eliot poem. Originally I was going to get the bird piece on my thigh and an Eliot upper arm half sleeve, but im wondering will I spend half my time explaining the halfsleeve or will a nice, well done piece of work stand alone as art and stop people constantly asking "why peaches/teacups/etc/etc?"
Anywhoo, critique away
Molby x
I really love them all, particularly the 1st two. I love the way there's no black in the koi - kind of gives it a magical look! And I just think the idea of brother/sister tats is so cute!0 -
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I really like the stars, they're very different to how stars usually are.
The koi looks great, really "dreamy" or something because there's no solid black.
Can't see the cupcake really well, think I saw better pics before and liked it though, has the same "dreamy" quality as the koi.
I'll throw mine into the ring, I know it's nothing special or majorly artistic, but do your worst!
The treble clef and stave (lines) was originally done by Pawel in Snakebite, I wasn't overly mad on it originally (uneven lines, Pawel didn't seem very into it, probably because of how minimalist it is)
The rest was done by Seb in Hell Funky's (now closed), and it's still very much a work in progress that I can't afford to fix at the moment. The back of my arm still needs to be finished, along with a lot of touching up. Hence the fading.0 -
Molberts - very nice, I'm loving the koi fish and am a big lover of Japanese style, and this is a great take on it with no black. Was that your idea or the artist's? The one on your stomach is very cute - all in all your tattoos are very feminine and girly, I mean that in the best possible way. I like the stars as I generally like stars and like star tattoos. Nice polka dot pants by the way! ;-) Very cute.
Sofaspud - not too crazy about it to be honest, I take it the treble clef was an older tattoo? Its quite well done. It does look more faded than the thorns. I don't really like the style, and I think the thorns could've been done a lot better.
Anyway, here's mine: Japanese sleeve tattoo started in August 08 and finished last month. The sun on my shoulder I already had since 2004 so the sleeve works around it. Originally I was just getting a half sleeve done, to where the chrysanthemum / lotus flower lie, but then I decided to go a bit longer and get a not quite full / not quite 3/4 length sleeve.
I'm really happy with it composition wise; the execution of certain parts could've been better, for example the shading on the wind bars isn't really consistant and there's some patchiness in places. Overall though its a good work.
P.S. cos I used a webcam to take the shots the colours look slightly different - the cherry blossoms are red but came out pink here!0 -
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Nothing wrong with having art just because you like the art.Rosieogrady wrote: »Is it wrong not to have a big story behind a tattoo 0 -
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i do love this:) ... i actually dont like colour tattoo's (yeah i know , im prolly wierd) all mine are and will be black and grey , most colour i have is white and that was after i had to be told a few times it would be okay! .. but this i loveeviltimeban wrote: »Molberts - very nice, I'm loving the koi fish and am a big lover of Japanese style, and this is a great take on it with no black. Was that your idea or the artist's? The one on your stomach is very cute - all in all your tattoos are very feminine and girly, I mean that in the best possible way. I like the stars as I generally like stars and like star tattoos. Nice polka dot pants by the way! ;-) Very cute.
Sofaspud - not too crazy about it to be honest, I take it the treble clef was an older tattoo? Its quite well done. It does look more faded than the thorns. I don't really like the style, and I think the thorns could've been done a lot better.
Anyway, here's mine: Japanese sleeve tattoo started in August 08 and finished last month. The sun on my shoulder I already had since 2004 so the sleeve works around it. Originally I was just getting a half sleeve done, to where the chrysanthemum / lotus flower lie, but then I decided to go a bit longer and get a not quite full / not quite 3/4 length sleeve.
I'm really happy with it composition wise; the execution of certain parts could've been better, for example the shading on the wind bars isn't really consistant and there's some patchiness in places. Overall though its a good work.
P.S. cos I used a webcam to take the shots the colours look slightly different - the cherry blossoms are red but came out pink here! 0 -
eviltimeban wrote: »Molberts - very nice, I'm loving the koi fish and am a big lover of Japanese style, and this is a great take on it with no black. Was that your idea or the artist's? The one on your stomach is very cute - all in all your tattoos are very feminine and girly, I mean that in the best possible way. I like the stars as I generally like stars and like star tattoos. Nice polka dot pants by the way! ;-) Very cute.
Sofaspud - not too crazy about it to be honest, I take it the treble clef was an older tattoo? Its quite well done. It does look more faded than the thorns. I don't really like the style, and I think the thorns could've been done a lot better.
Anyway, here's mine: Japanese sleeve tattoo started in August 08 and finished last month. The sun on my shoulder I already had since 2004 so the sleeve works around it. Originally I was just getting a half sleeve done, to where the chrysanthemum / lotus flower lie, but then I decided to go a bit longer and get a not quite full / not quite 3/4 length sleeve.
I'm really happy with it composition wise; the execution of certain parts could've been better, for example the shading on the wind bars isn't really consistant and there's some patchiness in places. Overall though its a good work.
P.S. cos I used a webcam to take the shots the colours look slightly different - the cherry blossoms are red but came out pink here!
I love the colours in these, very nice indeed.0 -
Ok,I popped over to the show you mine thread since I saw there was new posts, and I like looking at other peoples tattoos :rolleyes:
I've just read through the last couple of pages and while I can see the points on both sides, I don't think picking at the (volunteer!) mods will solve anything. hopefully this thread will though So to be clear, people can continue to post in the show you mine thread if they want to show their work only, but post here if theyre looking for opinions - albeit good/bad/indifferent.
Here's what I propose for it:
People post their tattoos, with a little bio/story if they like, and if they are looking for feedback on a particular aspect eg should I add this/go back to this artist for another piece or whatever they can say that too.
As the thread name suggests, people then rate the work EG give their opinions.
If you like something fair enough, but I would suggest if you're going to say you don't like something, you say why, eg its not to my taste/ i think its poorly executed/ theres a blowout on this part rather than just haha thats sh!t :rolleyes:
I'll go first, in honesty I've don't particularly mind what other people think of my work, I like it and thats what matters to me
Tatt 1. My brother and I got matching ones. not a lot to say here they're just a little design we got as buddy ink for the lulz. If i'd known more about tattooing at the time I would have suggested something other that stars :rolleyes: teacups maybe but hey we like them so its cool.
heres a pic of mine freshly done:
Tattoo 2: Koi, waves and cherry blossoms. Still a work in progress. This piece has no black ink in it, theres some grey shading but the outline was done in different shades of turqoise. The waves still need filling in and some touching up on the koi then its done, probably just need one more sitting, im so lazy about booking stuff :rolleyes: The two bottom blossoms aren't actually a weird shape, its the self taking pic angle im afraid.
Tattoo 3: 25th birthday cupcake! I wanted something fun and childish to mark my 1/4 century so here it is. I like how the icing looks like its dripping down. Again laziness on my part, some of the colour in the blue smoke and some of the sprinkles fell out almost right away and I havent booked to get it touched up yet :rolleyes:
My only regrets about my tatts are that thayre in places that I cant shom them off more Future plans include a birds/cages/branches piece and another with imagery from a TS Eliot poem. Originally I was going to get the bird piece on my thigh and an Eliot upper arm half sleeve, but im wondering will I spend half my time explaining the halfsleeve or will a nice, well done piece of work stand alone as art and stop people constantly asking "why peaches/teacups/etc/etc?"
Anywhoo, critique away
Molby x
I find these very erotic, I love them.0 -
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I leave the internets for a day and look what happens :cool:
Hot2Def, good points. I'll edit my first post to put that info in (if its not gone past the edit date). You're totally right, it IS too late for the person who already has the tattoo, but to be honest I think the majority of people are happy with their work (unless its a really horrific mess and they know it and are posting looking for cover up suggestions) so they won't be too bothered by negative comments. For example I love my (totally ordinary) stars cos they remind me of the day I got them hanging out with my brother. If other people don't like them thats totally fine with me
Where I thought the thread might be handy would be for people for future decisions. For example if I posted a tattoo and lots of people said ya know thats not the best of work, it wouldnt make me regret the tattoo I already have, but it might make me think twice about going back to the same artist for more work.
Truthinwords was talking in the other thread about raising standards and peoples expectations. A colleague of mine recently was in town, bored and decided to get a tattoo for the lulz. She wandered into colourworks which happened to be the closest studio at the time and picked her starsign out of a flash book. It's the best bloody starsign I've ever seen. It looks 3d, has 2/3 different shades of grey and the shading is beautiful. How easy would it have been for the artist to roll his/her eyes and wack it on in black in 5 minutes and take her money, really, she wouldnt have known the difference.
The point is the artist (not sure who it was she didnt know who it was just the studio name) has a certain standard and pride in their work so made it the best bit of flash they possibly could. I think this should be commended and if people see work of a certain standard online, maybe they'll rethink what they feel is an acceptable standard of work.
Not being bigheaded at all cos its not my work its the artists, but a couple of people have seen my back in person and said jeebus I didnt actually know you could do that with a tattoo, I think I'll call your guy instead of picking something out of a book for the sake of it like I was going to.
On the "nauseating back patting" I agree with Hot2Def. Personally if I've nothing nice to say I won't say it, if I compliment something I mean it. By the way eviltimeban, loving the sleeve
Tiarnabas I wasn't entirely comfy with the comment so cheers for the pm.
On the negative comments, this thread is about art and art is meant to be controvercial imo
Hopefully this thread will turn into a good un, but if not meh its only a thread on the intertubez, no biggie
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