Ultimate Kilt Accessory THE TATTOO

[Aldisimo]

And remember: Friends don't let friends get flash.

[Howard Clark]

Friends don't let friends get flash.

Please define "flash" for the reference impaired ? In other words, me. Thanks in advance.

[Aldisimo]

Flash are the nondescript, predesigned images pasted all over the walls of the tattoo studio, or available online that you and everybody else can order, rather than a design that's a collaboration between you and an artist that you choose. They're intended IMO for people who just "want a tattoo" but haven't thought about it, so they stumble into a studio (they probably call it a parlor) and pick something that they'll likely regret later (especially after they see it on a few dozen other people), done by the shop apprentice because the accomplished artists are booked up with repeat customers who know and appreciate their work.

I hope I don't sound like a tattoo snob ...

[Howard Clark]

Makes perfect sense to me, I just wasn't familiar with the terminology. I am familiar with the myriad images to which you refer though.

I like original collaborative efforts a lot better.

I guess I am a snob too then, eh ?

[michaelbeeman]

Then I'll make three!

[jbaker42j]

and me 4, but I do understand that unless you teach someone about the difference in Custom work and mass printed flash then you cant hold it against them, sorta like kilts

when I see ppeople with bad ink I just ask them if theve ever thought about custom work and refer them to a good artist.

[Howard Clark]

Well of course it is a process to be educated about tattoo like anything else.

I never really had any desire for ink when I was younger. Then I got to know a couple of very talented people who do tattooing for a living, and it became more interesting over time. But really, it was more an outgrowth of the friendship with the artists than a desire for tattoos, at least to begin with.

Both, now, I guess. Though I have yet to find a third artist I am interested in getting ink from. Perhaps time will find me another, or not.

[Raptor]

Here's a couple of mine: My main clan:




For my Pictish blood (Muir/Skene):

[Bulldawg]

Here's the start of mine. I go back in at the end of the month for touch-up, filling, and shading.



Edit - got it finished up.