How Important Is “originality” In A Tattoo Design?
How Important Is "originality" In A Tattoo Design?
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I completely feel sorry for tattoo artists who do 3-4 tramp stamps a day. As a piercing apprentice I feel as if I might scream every time some generic girl comes in to get either her tongue, her belly button, or both pierced. You can’t blame people though, we’re all victims trying to look cool. Some of us might not go out and get tattooed on a whim, but we will express it in other ways.
At 38, I got my first and only tattoo… I’d wanted this design for over 20 years. I found an artist I liked, his work was superb, and I am VERY pleased with it. I’d looked at the flash, just out of curiosity, then showed him what I wanted. The inking took 3-4 hours, during which time we got to do quite a bit of talking. His outlook was the same as Fish’s, though he wouldn’t do ANY names except those of children. I’ll have this until the day I die, so why look like anyone else? Creativity is a premium. A flash says “This is the best I could do./ I wouldn’t know a novel concept if it bit me on the butt.” For the easily satisfied, why not just get the Coke logo tattoo’d on your forehead??? As far as the artist being cynical, I would want to practice my ART, not be a hack and put the same CRAP on day after day, but I guess you do what you have to do to pay the bills…
I feel it’s very important that a tatoo is unique to each individual because every individual is unique and the reason they are getting one is unique to them.
Tattoos should symbolize one uniqueness. Would people be satisfied if all stores sold the same 3 shirts in the same 3 colors? Tattoos are about individualism. Frankly I would be embarrassed if I saw someone with the exact same tattoo as mine. Each of mine are original…either completely custom or a piece that I have changed to incorporate my identity.
What Pat is saying people are lemmings. They want to do what others are doing just to do it. I would never condone anyone getting a cookie cutter tattoo.
some artist have the same viewpoint on doing the same tattoos over and over, they are over it but they’ll still do it because it pays the bills. other artists however are much more picky about the tattoos that they do. my artist is a custom tattoo artist. he REFUSES to do tribal tattoos as well as a few other “overdone” tattoo designs. he doesn’t “need” to do that person’s crappy tattoo they can go down the street to the crappy tattoo shop and get it. he does tattoos that are original pieces of art and that is more important to him than a few extra bucks. that is what i like about him. i guess that’s the difference between a person owning original pieces of art and reproduction prints, some want the real thing and others are content to have cheap carbon copies.
I think that “file” tattoos are like buying mass-produced uniqueness. I think tattoos are lame unless they hold deep meaning for you. Even if it’s a flower; if it’s the kind of flowers your mother grew on her front porch all your life and she recently passed away, that is wonderful because it means something to you. I am personally sick of seeing the kanji/sun/tribals on person after person. It’s great that tattoos aren’t as taboo these days. But I’d hate for them to become generic! Every single tattoo I have and will get is going to mean something to me because it’s a part of me. And I wish that was the way it was for everyone.