The frustrations of tattoo designs and finding the right one for you
Usually, the process of getting a tattoo can be quite difficult. It often works like this. The person decides that he wants to get a tattoo and many times even decides a rough idea of what he would like to get. They then go to a tattoo shop and try to get the tattoo artists to draw the work for them or then spend a lot of time searching online. Either person can easily end up frustrated. Well, going to your local tattoo shop and asking one of the tattoo artists to do a custom design will get you mixed results. Many tattoo artists don’t want to take the time to work on a custom design when they can just use the flash off the wall. Other times, they may not have the artistic background or the ability to truly draw freehand without looking at something. Then they are often too busy to deal with the custom work. So unless you really know tattoo artists, this can leave you frustrated. This is not to criticize tattoo artists, but there are very few who will continue to do custom work because it is very labor intensive and skillful. The only honest way to easily do this is to meet an artist on a friendly basis or go to a very high-end tattoo shop where they specialize in custom designs.
The alternative, as stated above, is to spend time searching for tattoos online. Here you will come across two basic types of tattoos. There are image galleries on tattoo rating sites where you can collect ideas in the early stages. These images are great for refining your idea and finding the exact look you want. However, this can be very time consuming and unless you like being on the internet for long hours looking at other people’s tattoos then this might not be the way to go. The other problem you run into with this method is that you may find an image that you really like. However, it is a photograph and you will still have to pay a tattoo artist to do a line drawing of the tattoo to get it done.
The other method to find tattoos online is to search flash sites. These will work for some people with no problem. There are plenty of sites that specialize in selling high quality flash designs and many of them do great work. So if you can find something you like, then you’re all set. However, many people search for hours and cannot find the exact design they want. They may want to change the colors of the design or they may not even be able to find the design they are looking for. If you want something that is unique or different from the masses, you won’t find it on flash sites online. These sites are marketing to the masses and thus producing tattoo flashes with mass appeal. Some of the individual artists on these sites will do custom work, so be sure to ask.
As you can see from above, any of the traditional ways of finding a tattoo design usually leaves 80 percent of customers either not finding the design they want or spending many hours searching for it.
That is why there has been a small but fast growing movement on the internet working to connect custom tattoo artists with people looking for custom tattoo designs. Surely the traditionalist in the world of tattooing will dismiss the idea and say that people are there for the money. However, for most online tattoo artists it goes much further. It’s all about providing a high quality unique custom design to the customer and making them happy. Sure they get paid for the work and the artists make money doing the design. However, a tattoo is something that is worn for a long time and tattoo artists know this and spend a lot of time on their custom work, refining the drawing and working with the client to get the exact look they are after. . Therefore, most customers are more than happy to pay for the custom design they receive. No matter what a tattoo is going to cost money and they are not cheap. So somewhere along the line of getting a tattoo, someone is going to make money. If this were not the case, then there would be no tattoo parlor out there.
So if you have been feeling trapped in the search for a high quality tattoo design, why not give one of the custom tattoo design services a try?