The best thing you can do is take all your ideas to your chosen tattoo artist. They’ll make notes of what you want, how you want it and make copies of any pictures you show them so they can draw it all up for you.

Have you thought about having it shaded so it’s not solid black? You could still have the scribbly off bit but add more depth to it with shading..
I think also places like your feet, wrists or ankle would be too small for this too look really cool, I’d suggest shoulder blade or ribs or calves – a flat enough area for the design to sit well on.

Very nice, except that script is too small 🙁 What does it even say?

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Thank you!

I bleed like i’ve got gallons to spare because I’m anemic.
Try having a big healthy meal before you get tattooed, nothing too fatty. Avoid painkillers and drinking the night before or if you’re slow to recover from hangovers give it two days detox time.

Bloody hell wow!

Just sell your artwork (coz it’s amazing) and keep trying for an apprenticeship. My friend couldn’t get work in malta either and couldn’t even open a new shop!

You’ll get somewhere eventually – took me 2 years!!

Don’t be silly. It’s HANDWASH!

Antibacterial creams/ointments/lotions are bad for the healing process because they draw out anything that’s not supposed to be there in the skin so you need to use a gentle lotion, the most recommended by top tattoo artists is Bepanthen or Bio-oil 2 – 3 times a day.
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Umm.. You do know you have to be 18+ to get a tattoo..?

Cornishtiger;88283 wrote:
How about a portrait of Toya Wilkox?

Bestest ever idea in the history of ideas, ever.

How about something with a mask? Half a mask?
Maybe some sort of animal like, I don’t know.. a panther? They’re pretty badass and mysterious.

Hello 🙂
Get some designs up ASAP! 😛

Cheers 🙂
I’ve just uploaded my portfolio, in reverse order like a douche bag D:
Let me know what you think!

Your stuff is pretty good! In my experience one year courses don’t really teach that much so well done for being a natural!
I’d say practice your lines more than shading when you’re drawing, draw as if you’re tattooing someone just so you can perfect that delicacy and steady hand.
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It’s not that bad!
Are you going for that pen drawn, sketchy look? I kinda like it.
The colours are a little too dark for my liking, I’ve never liked red and black so close together.
I’d have full on, bright colours. If you’re going to take something traditional and modernise it, you might as well go all out with the colour too.

Maybe she could be holding a flag instead of a sword? Resting it on her shoulder? Is the sword really important?
If you really want the flag anyway, get the tattoo in colour.
Maybe modernise her? Make her a pin up?

It should be fine, your skin will just absorb whatever’s left but it wont effect future tattoos. Just add an extra helping of your healing stuff and tell your tattooist when you next go to get tattooed, their cleany upy stuff will probably get rid of anything remaining that shouldn’t be there.

Are you into gardening and stuff then? Do you dig graves?
I guess you could turn it into one of those creepy, cool looking ‘i collect souls’ kind of tattoos.
If you ARE into gardening, get some plants, other garden tools or a pile of earth with the spade dug into it? I don’t know, it’s hard to think of ideas since I haven’t seen the style.
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PLEASE don’t add anything else to this design, it’s so cool the way it is.
It would look awesome on one shoulder blade (:

Haha.
Well that was my friend’s reason for waiting until after new year actually. Although everyone says tongue piercings are “babe magnets” I don’t think he’ll attract anything with a blubbering swollen mouth! 🙂
As for me, I’m sure I can go without kissing my boyfriend for a bit, he stinks xD

But I probably will wait, because I’m scared 🙁

This cover up is totally do-able. Anything with scales like fish or mermaids, snakes etc are awesome for cover ups.
I’m covering a slightly bigger and colourful tat than yours with a pin up style mermaid.
I’d suggest using colour aswell as black and grey shading to take the eye away from the old tattoo as much as possible.

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