ArniVidar;94530 wrote:
First of all, kudos on your choice. You’re thinking very much the same as I am about my sleeves, and I think that sleeve would be awesome.
BUT, my problem so far (and yours now) is that it’s very difficult to find a tattoo artist that actually creates cartoons of this genre. A good tattoo artist is all good and well, but if he isn’t actually into cartoons and likes drawing (from his own head) cartoons, then he’s useless for your efforts.
I really hope you’ll find someone that does the job, and I’d love to see how they do it for you.. I might need to visit them myself for my sleeves 🙂
Yeah very true, i do see your point. I do want to stick somewhat to the original illustrations though, so the imagination part will be moreso for the tree and the ladder etc which I didnt think would be too much of an issue.
I am going to print off the characters I want included, so the artist I find will have a base point for starting on, and then can discuss if he/she wants to put their own twist on them in some way. I don’t want it to come out looking TOO cartoony, I want it to have a more realistic look in some way, even though it is a fantasy based childrens book. does that make any sense? ahah i hope so lol.
I have found one guy I like so far, who has inked some of our friends over there and his work is good, but I do want to look around some more to be certain, then I can arrange a consultation to see if we are on the same page 🙂
