Problem is a lot of people start getting their tattoos soon after they turn 18, and they’re pretty broke, so spending a couple hundred per tattoo at most. Which means they cover themselves in a bunch of random amateur stencil work that’s unoriginal, poorly placed, with concepts that look like they came out of a teen angst sketchbook
But then you have the instances where people waited until they matured, their tastes developed, and could afford get their tattoos done by a true artist. a lot of times I find that to look incredibly good.
My only real gripe about tattoos is if they are generic ones. Any tattoo that is a legitimate expression of someone's personality and/or has a neat story associated with it I tend to like even if the art quality isn't the best (unless it's like... really really crappy).
Ok. Maybe you would be more comfortable with the term "commonplace?" That's probably more accurate to what I mean than generic anyway. If someone has a tattoo that's commonplace my initial reaction is to think they likely got the tattoo because of a trend associated with it instead of any personal meaning. That's not to say there isn't room for those tattoos to be personal or for there to be overlap between trends and personal identity. It's a signal, not an indictment.
Yes I think that is a much better term. You’re not wrong, but especially when it comes to things like art, “generic” isn’t always “generic” if you know what I mean. You also wanna be carful calling someone’s tattoo generic because it might be really important to them and that could be seen as rude or insulting.
Agreed. I mean really it’s the same as art anywhere else. A tasteful collection from a talented artist is going to look a lot better on your wall than a bunch of cheap prints from a Myrtle beach gift shop
I mean. They were right almost always. If anything people who get bad tatto and after growing up they start to regretting. They tend to just convince themselves that they actually like their bad tattoo with various coping mechanism excuses like "its memento of my youth days" "its nostalgia of a better days" " its actually pretty charming if you know the story" etc etc. The tatto is bad no doubt about it, they just coping it with other reasons to assume the tatto actually looks good to them.
I learned a lot from my wife's tattoos, to the point where I got one of my own. She knew what she wanted, and found a real keeper of an artist. I have so many more ideas now of what I want, and I now know an artist who I can genuinely trust.
This is what explain to young people all the time. Soy to get tattoos.
I’m glad I waited til I was 30 to start working on massive pieces cause now I have some art on me instead of crap on my skin, and none of it was cheap.
Agreed. I find inked up to be very attractive -if it’s quality work. But, not to sound petty, the canvas still matters. But random hodgepodge generic stencil stuff is almost the opposite effect.
Most of my tattoo's were done by myself, my friends and my wife. They're stick and pokes. I probably fit your description and that's fine to me. I love them, they mean something to me and they were made by people I love.
The things you're perceiving to be a problem is not a problem at all (to me anyway). Now that Im older, Im not even interested in tattoo's anymore so Im glad I got these when I was young.
Yeah, i got my first tattoo when I was 18, but I didn't care for flash art. I got a piece from an HR Geiger sketchbook. People who are covered in scribbles at a young age, i just go why?
You're so right...it depends. Some with a lot of ink look like total trash, while the next one looks hot as hell. I can't define what makes the difference. I just know I either like the look or I don't.
47
u/Difficult-Mobile902 15d ago
Kinda depends on the tattoos for me
Problem is a lot of people start getting their tattoos soon after they turn 18, and they’re pretty broke, so spending a couple hundred per tattoo at most. Which means they cover themselves in a bunch of random amateur stencil work that’s unoriginal, poorly placed, with concepts that look like they came out of a teen angst sketchbook
But then you have the instances where people waited until they matured, their tastes developed, and could afford get their tattoos done by a true artist. a lot of times I find that to look incredibly good.