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So, on a scale of 1 to Operation Barbarossa, how bad of an idea would it be to make my first tat a full arm sleeve?
What makes you think that the tattoo you want today, will be the tattoo you want on your skin ten years from now? Would you want on your skin today the Ninja Turtles tattoo you would have gotten ten years ago? When a teenage girl wanted a tattoo, her mom pointed out to her that ten years beforehand, she would have gotten Barney tattooed on her butt, instead of the "cool" tattoo she wanted at age sixteen. The girl looked shocked, said, OMG, you're right! And she didn't get the tattoo.
His tattoos randomly turned blue and smeary? Tattoos do need to be touched up... Depending on the color and location. For my particular tattoo that I will be getting it will need to be touches up every 10 years. It's also small(smaller than the palm of my hand) and on my back where no one would see it but me... Tattoos require maintanence though... Sounds like he didnt keep up with his.
No, Faith, they didn't just "randomly" turn smeary, they did that over time. And, no, he didn't "keep up with them". Well within 10 ten year touchup time, he grossly disliked them and was ashamed of them, and wished that he hadn't gotten them. That's my whole point: even 10 years is a long time, much less a lifetime. You get 'em--you've got 'em, and they ain't going anywhere.
If you think Jesse Smith's artwork is the same thing as dime a dozen clip art, I can't help you.
/smh
Yes I do think Jesse Smith's artwork is clip art quality. By clip art I mean line drawings, some in color and shaded, that are random and have no cohesive purpose other than to itself. This is what I mean by an imperfect art.
Clip art used to come in large books with random art all over the page. The layout artist would clip (cut) out whichever art they liked and put it on a pasteup to printed. Many different styles and sizes were used. None were cohesive, or a plan of a larger art. This is what people with many tattoos remind me of.
Of course people can plagiarize the great masters art works and sell them through clip art but it doesn't make them clip art genre. However after being tattooed they do look like clip art simply because of the process and again, that they are one of many unrelated pieces of (clip) art on the body.
I have seen some lousy tattoos, but I have also seen some incredibly beautiful ones. I think it depends on where you are and who you know.
Most definately. Many of the people I know don't have tattoos (my wife has a nice one) and many of the tattoo's I see out and about probably are not representative of what good ones look like. I was also in the Marines, so plenty of not onlt bad tattoos but embarassingly bad tattoos.
Yes I do think Jesse Smith's artwork is clip art quality. By clip art I mean line drawings, some in color and shaded, that are random and have no cohesive purpose other than to itself. This is what I mean by an imperfect art.
Clip art used to come in large books with random art all over the page. The layout artist would clip (cut) out whichever art they liked and put it on a pasteup to printed. Many different styles and sizes were used. None were cohesive, or a plan of a larger art. This is what people with many tattoos remind me of.
Of course people can plagiarize the great masters art works and sell them through clip art but it doesn't make them clip art genre. However after being tattooed they do look like clip art simply because of the process and again, that they are one of many unrelated pieces of (clip) art on the body.
It would be easier to just say "I don't like tattoos and therefore I choose to think of them as inferior art."
I once spent a few minutes in a room a the National Gallery in DC having some spaced out "artsy" chick try to explain to her mom how 4 canvases that contained nothing but a single color (no depth, no shading, just color) were "art."
They were not impressed. LOL.
Go you ahead and hate tattoos all ya like.
They're not really "clip art." since so many people draw them from hand.
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Most definately. Many of the people I know don't have tattoos (my wife has a nice one) and many of the tattoo's I see out and about probably are not representative of what good ones look like. I was also in the Marines, so plenty of not onlt bad tattoos but embarassingly bad tattoos.
Yeah... living near a military base will indeed bring out the badly tattooed.
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I love tattoos especially the full sleeves, but you might want to dip your toe into the water before jumping in the deep end. Start with one you can easily hide first.
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