She brought depth and life to the flat floral pattern stamped on by an apprentice’s inexperienced hand. The woman that completed my neck tattoo utilized what was already there like a stencil and covered it with a piece uniquely her own. Luckily we stopped at a salvageable point and I was able to find a more professional artist for the final product. She started the flower on my neck in two uncomfortably slow sessions before revealing her distaste for working with me. The former has done work on my arm, side and leg. I’ve only had two artists so far, an apprentice and a master. Here in Seattle all of my pieces are more significant because I’m not just decorating my body, I’m changing my appearance. It’s easy to tell which pieces were done by more experienced hands. My artists in Memphis ranged from apprentices to masters and almost none of my art took longer than 3 hours. I thought deciding what to get tattooed was the hard part but now I know the real trial is finding a good artist. Protip, the ability to suffer a ridiculous number of hours under an artist’s needle does not necessarily make it better art. They should probably focus more on the speed and quality of the piece. By the time most people are in their 60’s an old tattoo is rarely the ugliest part of life. The thing most people worry about before their first tattoo is the permanence of the process. Time, subject matter, placement, size, cost, color, detail, quality, and most of all sentimentality. ![]() When it comes to a bad tattoo, there’s a scale.
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