First Tattoo questions

Jimmy Bottlehead

Hey all.

Booked with Wildcat to get my first tat on 8th April. Getting a design that I've wanted the past seven years, since I was 16. Always wanted this one design. Its tribal in style.

Anyways, I'm just dead nervous about it, mainly the design aspect. The artist who's doing is is awesome, his online portfolio impressed me more than anyone elses for what I want, and my mate got inked very recently and I sat through it and was impressed beyond belief.

Thing is, I've asked for my design in a stone carved effect and am worried it won't be what I want, or that something will go wrong. Even that I'll feel slightly pressured on the day to say yes to the design whether I like it or not. Just nerves really.

One thing is, the design I have isn't perfectly symmetrical, and I asked the artist about making it symmetrical. He said that for upper arm tats, its better its not 100% even. But I know it'll bother me if it looks lop-sided.

Any advice?

lil-evil

1st you should never feel pressured into saying yes to something you don't want tattoo'd, it's on your body so walk away rather than feel pressured into saying yes.

2nd If you've seen his work and his reputation is very good then get him to do 2-3 different designs and then you choose which one you want.

Jimmy Bottlehead

lil-evil wrote: »

1st you should never feel pressured into saying yes to something you don't want tattoo'd, it's on your body so walk away rather than feel pressured into saying yes.

2nd If you've seen his work and his reputation is very good then get him to do 2-3 different designs and then you choose which one you want.

Cheers.

On the day, is it always ok to ask the artist to re-jig the design if its not exactly what I want?

TangyZizzle

Of course, you'll be wearing it for the rest of your life, you had better make sure its exactly what you want.

Raze_them_all

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

Cheers.

On the day, is it always ok to ask the artist to re-jig the design if its not exactly what I want?

Perfectly acceptable to ask them to rehash it on the day but a couple of things to remember, He's a professional, trust them when they say what'd work on your skin, yer skin is not paper, he's not putting it on with a pencil so in this front his opinion should carry alot of weight.

If you want a ton of changes don't be surprised if he asks to reschedule the appointment, Real life tattooing isn't edited like miami ink!

Jimmy Bottlehead

Raze_them_all wrote: »

Perfectly acceptable to ask them to rehash it on the day but a couple of things to remember, He's a professional, trust them when they say what'd work on your skin, yer skin is not paper, he's not putting it on with a pencil so in this front his opinion should carry alot of weight.

If you want a ton of changes don't be surprised if he asks to reschedule the appointment, Real life tattooing isn't edited like miami ink!

Ah it wouldn't be radical, its a tribal it stone carved effect so there's only so much leeway really!

I trust the guy and his work completely so his opinion will be very important to me. I guess on any level getting inked needs a certain level of trust in the artist.

Gang of Gin

I'm considering getting one done very soon too - my first one.

I haven't done a huge amount of research, but I was planning to have a chat with an artist about potential designs etc.

I was considering going to that tattoo place in Rathmines, South Ink Tattoo.

Does anyone have any opinions on this place or the pros that work there?

Raze_them_all

Fairly sure that where molby gets inked. Pretty damn good stuff if it is them.

Gang of Gin

Raze_them_all wrote: »

Fairly sure that where molby gets inked. Pretty damn good stuff if it is them.

Molby?

Raze_them_all

another poster, I'll try find a pic she posted will link you.

Gang of Gin

Raze_them_all wrote: »

another poster, I'll try find a pic she posted will link you.

Thanks for that.

Raze_them_all

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=56959981#post56959981


Mods i hope it's ok to link this since the pics are still up I presume molby didn't wanna take down the pics.