portrait tattoos
Add comment February 13th, 2008
Portrait tattoos are some of the hardest tattoos to get right. Any body can do them but few can do them right. In tattooing you can learn all of the technical stuff you want and put in a line as good as anybody. Once you have reached as far you can get technically that’s when artistic ability takes over.
I don’t consider myself an artist but someone who does art; be it drawing, painting or tattoos. Every day you are learning and every tattoo is different, the materials are the same but the canvas is always different. I’ve just got back into tattooing portraits. I stayed away form them for years because some of the past people I tattooed abused them and I was tired of having them destroy good ink. Now believe it or not I get a better quality of clientele working from home then what I got from when I was in a shop.
The people I deal with are tired of the run around with over priced under skilled locals and when they come to me they know what they want and are for sure not going to abuse their ink. So now I’m getting back into doing as many portraits as I can and will be adding them to my portfolio as they come down the pipe.
*Update Feb-15-2008
So I posted the portrait photo and got feedback that the face of the portrait is too stretched but people think you are making excuses when you explain teh photo was taken while his arm was slightly twisted so the client took a photo the same day with his I-phone with a better angle showing that the face was done correctly. I just don’t like to post photos of peopll’s children on the net for obvious reasons.
