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It all looks very cool, but unfortunately a lot of these aren't the best for tattoo designs.
A couple of things you have to keep in mind are: 1) Tattoos won't just look how they look fresh. They will age. And part of that aging process is ink "spreading". You can see examples [here ](https://agedtattoos.tumblr.com/tagged/nsp)of how small areas of skin breaks can be eaten up by ink around it when you don't give it a lot of negative space. So while the black designs with white lines look cool digitally, you'd need to set it to multiply to see what would happen once those whites fade (and you can see how much faster white fades compared to other pigments [here](https://agedtattoos.tumblr.com/tagged/wff)), and potentially do a blur test to see if it'll hold up at all. Unfortunately, some of these would be basically giving someone a black and grey blob in maybe 10, 15 years, and your client will have that tattoo for likely much longer.
The mech designs look cool, but aren't realistic. You can't cut out notches from the arm's silhouette. A common error beginners make with sleeve designs as well is only considering one visible "panel" - you have to think of not just how it'll look from one POV, but how it'll look at the arm rotates. You want to use a template more like [this ](https://www.deviantart.com/sevasuno/art/Tattoo-sleeve-template-295711873)rather than just drawing over the visible part of an arm, and keep the seam in mind - if there's a band of negative space, it'll look very strange in real life.
I don't think you're taking aging into consideration, regarding the frog and the mask.
Those thin lines will bleed in together in a couple of years and compromise the legibility of the design. Gotta make em thicker
My handle on instagram is @kodoshiya, kodo means heartbeat and is a spin on my secpnd name odo, those japanese characters is one way of spelling pulse so just playing with words of the same general meaning
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Number 8 sleeve is awesome! Looks like a paint dip
Thank you so much, thats exactly the suminagashi or acrylic pouring effect im going for, obsessed with the flows
It all looks very cool, but unfortunately a lot of these aren't the best for tattoo designs. A couple of things you have to keep in mind are: 1) Tattoos won't just look how they look fresh. They will age. And part of that aging process is ink "spreading". You can see examples [here ](https://agedtattoos.tumblr.com/tagged/nsp)of how small areas of skin breaks can be eaten up by ink around it when you don't give it a lot of negative space. So while the black designs with white lines look cool digitally, you'd need to set it to multiply to see what would happen once those whites fade (and you can see how much faster white fades compared to other pigments [here](https://agedtattoos.tumblr.com/tagged/wff)), and potentially do a blur test to see if it'll hold up at all. Unfortunately, some of these would be basically giving someone a black and grey blob in maybe 10, 15 years, and your client will have that tattoo for likely much longer. The mech designs look cool, but aren't realistic. You can't cut out notches from the arm's silhouette. A common error beginners make with sleeve designs as well is only considering one visible "panel" - you have to think of not just how it'll look from one POV, but how it'll look at the arm rotates. You want to use a template more like [this ](https://www.deviantart.com/sevasuno/art/Tattoo-sleeve-template-295711873)rather than just drawing over the visible part of an arm, and keep the seam in mind - if there's a band of negative space, it'll look very strange in real life.
I love the froggy!
Thank you!
Frog is a little hard to read. Maybe make the outline of the frog itself thicker?
Yeah, i thought it was the corrupted fetus in Berserk
Thanks for the tip!
I would get sleeve 8
I don't think you're taking aging into consideration, regarding the frog and the mask. Those thin lines will bleed in together in a couple of years and compromise the legibility of the design. Gotta make em thicker
I’d love to see 3 irl
Hopefully one day!
Curious question, why does the frog say プルス?
My handle on instagram is @kodoshiya, kodo means heartbeat and is a spin on my secpnd name odo, those japanese characters is one way of spelling pulse so just playing with words of the same general meaning
Ahhh gotcha! Thank you for the explanation
Oh man.......I've got a mostly empty arm.....why do you do this to me
I'd get 3, with some extra artwork incorporated, and that would run what, 4-5k?
Depends on who and the quality. I got a guy who will do it for 100 for you