diarrhea_blumpkin-NLI said

ben said

diarrhea_blumpkin-NLI said

ben said

diarrhea_blumpkin-NLI said	[orig][quote]
its pretty there is no work that i cant do or copy. your work most likely looks like your page name, DIARRHEA.

Ok

My chest and shoulders, Nathan Kosteckho: www.nathankostechko.com

http://www.galleryoftattoosnow.com/NathanK...STED/images/gallery/medium/jim2.jpg

My Stomach, David Page, www.davidpagetattoos.com

My armpits, Orrin Hurley:

My Backpiece, Alex Vidaud, www.pughands.com

So does my work still look like shit? Ive been published in multiple books concerning tattoos, won awards at tattoo conventions and also been featured in numerous magazines as well.

Instead of just trashing your work, I want to be the better man and give you some critiques. First off your grey shading isn't as smooth as it could be for your portraits, do you mix your own or do you buy premade stuff like silverback Ink?
Also if you look at photographs of faces, there aren't hard lines there. Same goes for tattoo portraits. Stay away from literal hard lines in them. Also take your time on them, don't rush those pieces. They look like they've been done in a rush.
Also try to photograph healed tattoos, especially black and grey, because of all of the redness from it is really hard to see the true tones in them.

Also I've seen work from you that has been done way to small and won't hold up well over time. Remember bigger is better, smaller means bleeding together and just eventually a big ol blob.

Your comment about copying work is so incredibly insulting to the tattoo community. If you pride yourself on being a custom tattoo artist, it would be in your best interest not to tell people you can COPY stuff. Thats not custom tattooing. All that is just a glorified flash artists stealing other people's tattoos.

you dont get me. when i say copy work, i mean i can copy any ones style. like the work you have on you. fine, money well spent. but you easily could have gotten just as good a work from me. you just didnt come to me. only difference. i dont get paid enough to do work like that to often. did he practically give it away to you? did you barter trades>? probably did. that work would cost more then what most can pay around here. its nothing i couldnt do. thats all i am saying. can he draw like me? thats the question.