As a heavily tattooed individual...flash art ain't it. 1. Usually ends up looking like shit. 2. Who knows how many others now have the same tattoo? Also in the same town! Unless agreed upon with a friend, wife, family member..just thinking about coming across some random ass stranger with the exact same tattoo? It gives me anxiety.
Ya but even the guys doing custom work these days just go onto Google search and pick some photo off the first page
Half these guys are all using the same reference material
I’ve seen the same photo realism b&g lion tattoo like 20 times now
Who gives a fuck if somebody has the same piece as you, it’s all been done before
Unless it’s like a portrait of a dead family member and some rando has the same tat, lol
I remember one time I had a bunch of reference material I brought in for a tattoo artist to do my piece
Come back a week later to get it done, and the artist used some of it on the guy he tattooed before me, lol
I was like damn wtf
He was like, yeah I had it pinned up on my wall ready for you and this guy was really digging this part so we went with it.
Interesting..
I had a friend who was very heavily tatted up. And first few he went to tattoo parlours owned by bikers. Then he got some done afterwards by his friends and co. And later years later he went back to the original bikers that tattooed him first and they said, ‘take that other ink off your body before we tattoo you again’.
Needless to say he never went back to the bikers again.
I’ve been tattooed by HA guys and they didn’t give a shit, as long as you are paying
And didn’t get their work tattooed over by another artist
The guy I saw use to rip off other people’s drawings tho and say they were his own
Found out later half of my back piece was some other artists artwork that he use to work with
I wanted to get the whole thing lasered, then covered up later cuz the guy ended up being a real piece of shit, but I never did cuz of health issues
I think he’s dead now anyways