really needs to be in
black and white”, and
so I’m switching over,
and I’m not saying so,
and people tell me
“wow this looks great
in black and white”. I
just know what it has
to be, and I want to
make that transition,
and pray they like it in
the end. I want to do
that for them, because
they are hiring me because they liked my
style to begin with.
They are hiring you for
your sensibilities as
well, and that’s the difficult thing with tattooing
as well, when you have
a client who thinks they
have something really
mapped out, when in
reality there are other
aspects to be considered because it’s not a
solid design or concept.
When we think about concepts, a lot of the time there’s a really solid concept and there’s
reference provided and it’s like it’s dissected already and you’re putting the thing back
together using your sensibilities, but then you have the concepts that are just vagaries,
that don’t even have edges, don’t even have a shape, it’s just amorphous and it doesn’t
work, and trying to communicate that to someone gently, without sounding, you know…
If I like an artist, I tell I want, lets say an owl, then tell them to do what they want.
I’m going to them because I like their work so I want their take on an owl. It makes
me crazy when people say I love your work but I want this, and do this like this
and, maybe this and at that point why did you come to me. You said you love my
work and you just changed it to everything I wouldn’t do.
Right there’s that too, that happens.
Do you prefer when somebody allows you to have free reign on a tattoo or do you
prefer for them to have some kind of specific idea?
Either way, whether a client comes with a whole bunch of photo references and bullet
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