thinking of getting my first tat, i wanted to get a rough estimate on the cost. I would like to state that I’m a person who prefers quality, as in I’m willing to pay more if it means having a great tattoo over a cheap low quality one, and that i do know that price depends on the artist, size, detail, time and more, but i would hate to have an artist draw something up for me just to tell him i cant afford it (yet…).

anyways, after seeing hundreds of different tattoo designs ive fallen in love with the bio-mechanical designs, most notably the work of Yomico Moreno (see below picture).

now heres my question, if i were to design a tattoo that was similar but different from the above shoulder tattoo and having roughly the same amount of detail and size and theme, what price range would it fall into? and on that note, what do you think would be an average time for it?