I like clowns, but I like sad clowns, particularly the sad french/italian clowns Pierrot/Pedrolino.

Second opinion? Meaning go to a different tattoo artist?
Yeah, I’m overall not very happy with the face. He did a great job with the “body” of the the doll, and the hair to an extent (I don’t like glamourous “pretty” hair, it was meant to be somewhat choppy, mussy and stylized), but I feel like not a whole lot of thought was put into the face. I…[Read more]

I’m trying to figure out if there’s some way to highlight/shade certain areas of the face to make it look more feminine. I’m not at all into stereotypical beauty, and most of the characters I illustrate are fairly androgynous in nature, so I don’t care if she looks like she could be either a man or a woman, but a mustache is straight up man. The…[Read more]

It’s sort of a representation of my first memory… when I was 3 I had this really beautiful doll, I think it might have been Russian or Japanese (yeah, pretty big difference but I was 3, what did I know?!), with an egg-shaped body and a porcelain face set into it. The doll rolled into the creek in front of my house where an alligator snapping…[Read more]

If laser removal isn’t an option, I suggest embracing the asymetry and adding some sort of image on one side or the other (like a rose, perhaps, with a stem coming down) to balance it out.