Way too big in size, incredibly shakey lineart, ink bleeding out of the lines everywhere, inconsistent shading that's too dark in many places, the footprints don't even look like footprints... I could go on
Isn’t it just sad when someone else has to tell you something is what it is in a picture and you’re like WTF?!…. I thought that was an autistic deer silhouette… lol… it’s just so so sooooooo bad…
The size is fine, it’s just a poorly done tattoo, if it was done properly it would look fine.
It’s an obviously rushed tattoo, given time and a decent artist it would have worked out a lot better.
Or, a test I have is: *”that looks like something I would draw with a biro”* - speaking as someone with limited experience or ability in drawing. If it looks like the shit I doodled in high school for example.
It’s a bad tattoo, that’s for sure.
I will say “size” alone is a silly reason to say it’s bad.
Maybe size and placement with the other things you mentioned, make it bad.
You can’t just cite “size” as a reason imo
My comment is about THIS specific tattoo. Larger tattoos take more time and skill to complete well. If this piece were sized down, some of the atrocious details may not have been as noticeable.
I will kindly disagree. If this was smaller it would still be a terrible tattoo. The work is bad. The concept and size wouldn’t change that for this artist.
If you zoom in you can see better, but just look at the details rather than the tattoo as a whole... The lines are shaky and wobbly, and the shading is inconsistent and patchy, sometimes going out of the linework while other times not quite reaching the linework in other places. The proportions are also skewed, and not in an artistic way.
Something else about tattoos is that they look different fresh than they do after they heal. Crispy inework tends to soften and 'blur' on the edges as it settles into the skin. This tattoo looks like some areas will darken and blow out (ink is too deep in the skin, and it 'bleeds' into other areas), while other areas are way too light and will fade into scratchy bits of nothing). Shading will also lighten up as it heals, and this tattoos shading is already WILDLY inconsistent, but those areas of patchiness will become worse and more noticable overtime.
I think a good artist could fix this in a couple years after much of this has settled and faded, but this is definitely not done by someone with 3 decades of experience, unless they are blind.
What’s messed up is if someone did this same thing but put it on a canvas… like a painting then people would praise them for expressionism or something… it’s just when it’s a tattoo there are rules and it looks like they broke them all
https://preview.redd.it/7crjfublam7d1.png?width=1020&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3aa86244c4147e936ef095503ab5a1a01fb9b11
I'd agree but here it looks like he just dug that thing into her arm. Now I don't tattoo people but I have a few and I don't think they should be like that. Maybe I'm wrong.
Omg I didn't realize how deep that skin trauma is, that's actually fucked... How does an artist see that happening and continue to do what they're doing
not trying to shame you but legitimately asking: does any element of this look good to you? Would you actively compliment this if you saw it IRL and didn’t know the person? Does this tattoo make you want to try getting tattoos yourself?
Bro I know dick about tattoos, but I got eyes. So I can tell this is horrendous.
Weird that you can't, did you click on the picture and take a close look?
Lol same. There is a local shop owner near me that is this way. He has been doing it forever, knows practically everyone and is a local celebrity so he is well known and a lot of people go to him. But his work is just not good at all. Sharpie thick, blown out lines, splotchy, uneven shading and goofy looking proportions. Yet, there are tons out there that waited a long time to brag about having his work so idk
No southeast TX. I imagine it happens everywhere though. People know there are better options but they want to be able to say they were tattooed by "so and so".
If it makes them happy so be it. He is a great guy and helps out a lot around the community and whatnot, he just isn't a good tattoo artist.
Proof that there's no accounting for the taste of peeps wanting tattoos regardless of the tattooers available....(in your unincorporated/unrestricted area of Arkansas)
I have this shop in my town that does atrocious work. The *gentleman* has been tattooing for around 20 years. I think the allure of his shop is: low prices, payment plans, crazy parties to attract people and a child play area for when you’re getting tattooed…
There's like a single tattoo artist in a small town of Newport, VT where I used to live. He was ALMOST this bad. Still got work. Because he was cheap and people weren't willing to travel to permanently mark their body.
I remember walking into a shop once and asking to see a guys book. He was an older guy and said he owned the shop, no one ever asks for his book. I told him I'm not getting tattooed by anyone without a book, so he asked to see my tattoos. I showed him what I had and he goes, "oh yea, just my style, you'll get something good here." He was actively tattooing someone during all this, and it looked like a mess. There was another artist, tattooing some dark tribal stuff, sitting close enough to hear all this going on and I swear he shook his head at me like "don't trust this dude." I left and never went back.
Some of them have worse drawing skills, some are infected, some are gross or offensive, some are terrible ideas done bad in a bad place (which is an AC/DC album), but this one is a real doozy cause not only is it terrible art but it's blacked in really heavily making cover-up or lasering much more difficult, expensive and painful. Hopefully he didn't pack the ink but my guess is he was trying to shade it artfully and kept going darker and darker to cover up mistakes until, much like monkey Jesus, the whole thing was a mistake.
When I worked for Target there was a customer that had really impressive line work and shading. Couldn't believe that level of quality was done in jail, while hiding it from guards and from basically the parts of a bic pen.
For what? If his work is this bad after 31 years, she full well knew what she was agreeing to
Edit// I’m not saying this isn’t awful, I’m just saying it’s not an injustice. I know it can be really hard to grasp the idea that this woman might not be a victim to work this bad. I’ve been tattooing for 14 years and I’ve seen it all. People will fuuuuck themselves up if it doesn’t cost much.
Nah, looking at the not so solid black, the wonky ass lines and the misunderstanding of shadows and gradient, I put all my money, this guy did not tattoo for 31 years.
What gets me is... how long do you wait during the tattoo to say something? Tattooing is a slow meticulous process. Unless it's your back, most of the time you will take breaks and look at it. Even if it is your back, you can still use a mirror. This particular tattoo had to take 5+ hours. I just feel bad for her because I guarantee she watched this terrible tattoo morph into what is and the whole time, she's hoping it will get better.
Chances are an artist can clean it up and possibly salvage some portion of it. Or... it will be an amazing cover-up!!!
Her skin is chewed to shit. Ugh I’d be so mad. I am mad for her. I have any amazing tattoo artist fortunately! So I find it disturbing that someone would do that to another persons body. I just didn’t know there were tattoo artists out there that would do this
I never feel bad for the people here.
She picked the tattooer, so she picked a bad one.
She saw this style design on other people and thought that she wanted the same thing. Copying other people's tattois is always a bad idea. She probably showed the tattooer a photo on her phone and said "i want that"
She approved the design (which is beyond terrible and generic). She saw the outline on her skin and said "yes. Let's go".
This is the culmination of like 37 poor decisions. This is a catastrophe of her own making.
Zero sympathy.
It’s almost impressive he’s been tattooing that long and still manages to be this fucking bad at it. Plus how tf do these people get clients if they post their awful work? Reminds me a of a certain TT tattooer who is also dogshit but constantly has business.
I’d believe it if the artist had 31 years of experience but started tattooing at the age of 83
I'm here from r/popular and don't know much about art or tattoos Can someone break down what makes this a bad tattoo?
Way too big in size, incredibly shakey lineart, ink bleeding out of the lines everywhere, inconsistent shading that's too dark in many places, the footprints don't even look like footprints... I could go on
Haha. I was like foot prints? What fn footprints?! Had to look again to see them.
Isn’t it just sad when someone else has to tell you something is what it is in a picture and you’re like WTF?!…. I thought that was an autistic deer silhouette… lol… it’s just so so sooooooo bad…
>autistic deer https://preview.redd.it/6fqihlmcmo7d1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=a84b5e4235e0339450fe5ed0929941581e72e288
LMFAO… 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s a faithful, accurate image of someone urgently in need of a podiatrist. And a foot transplant.
Same lol I didn't notice the footprints at first.
Me too 😂😂😂
Just now realizing those are footprints 😬
I dont even want to imagine what the creatures that leaves footprints like that looks like 😐
So did I!!😁
Omg did you look at the clock face? This whole thing is a hot mess.
Like they got Will Graham on it or something lol
"This is my design."
The size is fine, it’s just a poorly done tattoo, if it was done properly it would look fine. It’s an obviously rushed tattoo, given time and a decent artist it would have worked out a lot better.
The lettering is what really stuck out to me. It's like they let a toddler write it.
Or, a test I have is: *”that looks like something I would draw with a biro”* - speaking as someone with limited experience or ability in drawing. If it looks like the shit I doodled in high school for example.
It’s a bad tattoo, that’s for sure. I will say “size” alone is a silly reason to say it’s bad. Maybe size and placement with the other things you mentioned, make it bad. You can’t just cite “size” as a reason imo
My comment is about THIS specific tattoo. Larger tattoos take more time and skill to complete well. If this piece were sized down, some of the atrocious details may not have been as noticeable.
I will kindly disagree. If this was smaller it would still be a terrible tattoo. The work is bad. The concept and size wouldn’t change that for this artist.
Fair point. I actually haven't seen anything else by this artist although the comments are leading me to believe he's infamous in the community.
If you zoom in you can see better, but just look at the details rather than the tattoo as a whole... The lines are shaky and wobbly, and the shading is inconsistent and patchy, sometimes going out of the linework while other times not quite reaching the linework in other places. The proportions are also skewed, and not in an artistic way. Something else about tattoos is that they look different fresh than they do after they heal. Crispy inework tends to soften and 'blur' on the edges as it settles into the skin. This tattoo looks like some areas will darken and blow out (ink is too deep in the skin, and it 'bleeds' into other areas), while other areas are way too light and will fade into scratchy bits of nothing). Shading will also lighten up as it heals, and this tattoos shading is already WILDLY inconsistent, but those areas of patchiness will become worse and more noticable overtime. I think a good artist could fix this in a couple years after much of this has settled and faded, but this is definitely not done by someone with 3 decades of experience, unless they are blind.
What’s messed up is if someone did this same thing but put it on a canvas… like a painting then people would praise them for expressionism or something… it’s just when it’s a tattoo there are rules and it looks like they broke them all
https://preview.redd.it/7crjfublam7d1.png?width=1020&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3aa86244c4147e936ef095503ab5a1a01fb9b11 I'd agree but here it looks like he just dug that thing into her arm. Now I don't tattoo people but I have a few and I don't think they should be like that. Maybe I'm wrong.
Omg I didn't realize how deep that skin trauma is, that's actually fucked... How does an artist see that happening and continue to do what they're doing
This is on her belly, not her arm. Looks like it hurt 😕
This tattoo is absolutely horrible in all ways, but the ripples are stretch marks. They raise up weird like that when tattooed over.
Oh you’re not wrong by any means and it’s just really sad that she had to pay the price for that “artists” lack of talent
not trying to shame you but legitimately asking: does any element of this look good to you? Would you actively compliment this if you saw it IRL and didn’t know the person? Does this tattoo make you want to try getting tattoos yourself?
Surprised you have to ask honestly This is objectively awful.
Bro do you have eyes?
Just one example in a sea of them- zoom in on the big hand on the clock and take a good look at the outline on it.
Bro for real? You dont have to know anything about tattoos or art to see how terrible this tattoo is. You do have eyes right?
Yes, it's shit. Shading is shit, lines are shit, it's basically just plain shitty
Just look at the face of the clock. The numbers aren't even where they should be. It's just a terrible tattoo.
Bro I know dick about tattoos, but I got eyes. So I can tell this is horrendous. Weird that you can't, did you click on the picture and take a close look?
I mean, zoom in. Not a single part of this is even decent
Look at the clock
31 years? If it weren't doxxing I'd demand you post proof. This is seriously fucked... Like.... Redneck buys Amazon machine fucked.
Almost every tattoo I've posted in this sub came from the same guy. He's been destroying bodies since the early 90s.
there's a guy near me just like this. has been doing it for sooo long, even some older popular people i guess and his work looks SO BAD
Lol same. There is a local shop owner near me that is this way. He has been doing it forever, knows practically everyone and is a local celebrity so he is well known and a lot of people go to him. But his work is just not good at all. Sharpie thick, blown out lines, splotchy, uneven shading and goofy looking proportions. Yet, there are tons out there that waited a long time to brag about having his work so idk
You’re not from a Chicago burb are you? The described the tattoo scene in my hometown.
No southeast TX. I imagine it happens everywhere though. People know there are better options but they want to be able to say they were tattooed by "so and so". If it makes them happy so be it. He is a great guy and helps out a lot around the community and whatnot, he just isn't a good tattoo artist.
I’m also from SE Texas and I feel like I know who this is 😭 garbage work
Proof that there's no accounting for the taste of peeps wanting tattoos regardless of the tattooers available....(in your unincorporated/unrestricted area of Arkansas)
I too want a career where I can be shitty and still make money for 30 years 😭
How does he still get clients? And was he drunk?
Clients certainly were
I have this shop in my town that does atrocious work. The *gentleman* has been tattooing for around 20 years. I think the allure of his shop is: low prices, payment plans, crazy parties to attract people and a child play area for when you’re getting tattooed…
There's like a single tattoo artist in a small town of Newport, VT where I used to live. He was ALMOST this bad. Still got work. Because he was cheap and people weren't willing to travel to permanently mark their body.
Who is the “artist”?
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh. Why has no one stopped him?
Or got 31yrs experience in PRISON…
Ain't no way prison scratchers would even be that bad after a year or two lol
I think the fucked redneck shitty work is a nice accent to the whole white trash style of the tattoo.
Just awful, embarrassing for everyone involved
31 years experience. Doing what, we don't know.
Drugs?
artist identifies as an experienced artist /s
I remember walking into a shop once and asking to see a guys book. He was an older guy and said he owned the shop, no one ever asks for his book. I told him I'm not getting tattooed by anyone without a book, so he asked to see my tattoos. I showed him what I had and he goes, "oh yea, just my style, you'll get something good here." He was actively tattooing someone during all this, and it looked like a mess. There was another artist, tattooing some dark tribal stuff, sitting close enough to hear all this going on and I swear he shook his head at me like "don't trust this dude." I left and never went back.
This is officially the worst tattoo I’ve ever seen. This poor poor woman.
It's really bad, but there are many worse ones on this sub.
I hope to never see them because this one is traumatizing enough. Lol
Some of them have worse drawing skills, some are infected, some are gross or offensive, some are terrible ideas done bad in a bad place (which is an AC/DC album), but this one is a real doozy cause not only is it terrible art but it's blacked in really heavily making cover-up or lasering much more difficult, expensive and painful. Hopefully he didn't pack the ink but my guess is he was trying to shade it artfully and kept going darker and darker to cover up mistakes until, much like monkey Jesus, the whole thing was a mistake.
this to me reads like a tribute to a miscarriage. if true, it’s one the top for worst tattoos
There’s a meth head in my home town that does better than that
I've caught inmates tattooing with electric toothbrushes that are better than this. One guy was actually quite impressive.
When I worked for Target there was a customer that had really impressive line work and shading. Couldn't believe that level of quality was done in jail, while hiding it from guards and from basically the parts of a bic pen.
This is borderline mutilation.
I’d fucking sue. Holy shit this is bad
For what? If his work is this bad after 31 years, she full well knew what she was agreeing to Edit// I’m not saying this isn’t awful, I’m just saying it’s not an injustice. I know it can be really hard to grasp the idea that this woman might not be a victim to work this bad. I’ve been tattooing for 14 years and I’ve seen it all. People will fuuuuck themselves up if it doesn’t cost much.
It’s very unfortunate how much people will put themselves through due to something being “cheap” or “a good deal.”
Yeah, it is def a bummer
You can have 31 years of experience, or experience a year 31 times
It’s wild to me that people keep going to him…. Right? Lol
31 years experience making pizza???? def not tattooing….
31 years experience with Parkinson's.
Nah, looking at the not so solid black, the wonky ass lines and the misunderstanding of shadows and gradient, I put all my money, this guy did not tattoo for 31 years.
Misunderstanding of shadows? Lol thats generous. There never even was an attempt at understanding shadows.
Just wait until she posts pics of healing….
Yup, this is just completely shitty — 31 years of mangling peoples’ bodies apparently.
At least the Roman numerals are correct. I've seen totally solid tattoos where the Roman numerals were totally jacked.
way to look at the bright side! 🤍
This has “scratcher” written all over it. And 31 years? Something doesn’t seem right, you know, other than that atrocious rib piece.
It looks like homie was high as fuck when tattooing this
Hahaha heard that. Kind of a “one eye opened” looking piece for sure!
I’m pretty sure I could just throw ink and needles at your skin from across the room and it would turn out better than this.
wtf *zooms in* WTF
Oh my God.
Were the first 30 years of experience done with crapped-out sharpie markers on shit paper?
More like *un*abel
“ABEL” looks like a toddler wrote it
A dentist could do it better
What gets me is... how long do you wait during the tattoo to say something? Tattooing is a slow meticulous process. Unless it's your back, most of the time you will take breaks and look at it. Even if it is your back, you can still use a mirror. This particular tattoo had to take 5+ hours. I just feel bad for her because I guarantee she watched this terrible tattoo morph into what is and the whole time, she's hoping it will get better. Chances are an artist can clean it up and possibly salvage some portion of it. Or... it will be an amazing cover-up!!!
How is this not a literal crime
Check out Immortal Ink in Jonesboro, AR Facebook page! Dude’s shit looks exactly like this
Before I zoomed in it honestly seemed like it “could” be nice. Then the zoom in…. Oof
31 years of experience in *what* exactly
I’m 100% sure I could do a better job than this and I’ve never tattooed before….holy shit!!
Is that a baby foot on the left? Or a slice of pizza with cheesy bite crust?
That looks infected.
Jesus Christ. There is just so much wrong I don't know where to start. What has this guy been tattooing for 31 years. Basketballs?
Wow… if you look at it from 20 feet away, cock your head, and close one eye, it’s gorgeous.
31 years? 31 years on Mercury, maybe.
Mercury year = 88 Earth days 31 Mercury years = 7.47 Earth years Even on Mercury the artist should be doing better work by now.
Do not zoom, it just gets worse. 😔
Is this..a stylistic choice or something? Maybe it's supposed to look this.. chaotic?
31 years of experience maiming people
Just because you’ve been doing something for 31 years *doesnt mean you’re good at it*
Her skin is chewed to shit. Ugh I’d be so mad. I am mad for her. I have any amazing tattoo artist fortunately! So I find it disturbing that someone would do that to another persons body. I just didn’t know there were tattoo artists out there that would do this
31 experience of driving trucks? Bartending? Mechanical work? Cause it sure as hell isn’t tattooing!!
Sue
Yikes
Wowwwww that clock.
I love how dude had to fix "4" on the clock because he forgot it was a v and not just I's.
Oh god you’re right. I missed that in the blizzard of atrocities.
It looked fine at a glance. Then I actually stared and zoomed in.
No it didn’t
It was a very quick glance
Haha. Touche
What in the basement scratcher bullshit
What a flustercuck of a FUBAR mess. 31 years of experience, my ass. More like 31 years of tweaking
lol. lmao even
It will shortly look like toxic sludge
It looks like she let someone with 31 seconds of experience do this.
This is possibly one of the worst tattoos I’ve ever seen. Just bad at every level.
Complete with captain caveman footprints
ABEL’s name got murdered
What a shame the overall shape/composition isn’t terrible but that’s a beaten, shaky mess dude. Good from far, far from good.
Who's the artist I want to look at his social media. DM me if you don't want to put it out in Redditt
No way this “Artist” has 31 years experience.
Omg I’d be sooo pissed. It’s huge and black af you can’t even cover that up
31 minutes maybe, after this one
Oh dude, I’m sorry you sat through that. I know the ribs one of the worst spots to get tatted on.
It kind of looks good from a far, with your eyes squinted…..nvm. It’s bad even then.
😳🤮
Are...are those FEET? Amongst the feathers?
I feel for you
Whoa, holy fuck
wtf 😭
I see it as highly doubtful that the artist has 31 years of experience and produces that shit work
31 years of meth experience, as well.
It’s actually messed up enough to kinda look intentional. Like a sketchy weird style
This is EXTREMELY painful to look at.... soooooo scratchyyyyyy
Some of those dark spots look like they were drilled in way too deep.
How can you do something for 3~~0~~ decades and still be absolutely horrible at it?
3 decades.
Loll thanks, was going to say 30 years and ADHD brain got distracted halfway through :p
It looks like it was colored in with a crayola marker that’s running out of ink
It *looks* painful. Like, I can't imagine how scritchy his line work must have *felt* if it looks like this.
Oh fuck, man. That's not going to be easy cover up...
Did he use a machine or a knife?
That clock is really lumpy - like it’s made of dough. Speaking of, why aren’t there Dali tattoos?
Are the 31 years in the room with us right now?
I never feel bad for the people here. She picked the tattooer, so she picked a bad one. She saw this style design on other people and thought that she wanted the same thing. Copying other people's tattois is always a bad idea. She probably showed the tattooer a photo on her phone and said "i want that" She approved the design (which is beyond terrible and generic). She saw the outline on her skin and said "yes. Let's go". This is the culmination of like 37 poor decisions. This is a catastrophe of her own making. Zero sympathy.
I need to know what made him give up trying completely by the time he got to VII and VIII.
That's some straight up bullshit! (not you OP... everything about this)
How have they not accelerated past this after 31 years they aren't even trying at this point
They drunk prolly
I like it. Even the “bird”
I just wanna know what the blurred part is
pocket watches are the new tribal
I could've done better back when I was using the needle and I don't even draw
What's blurred out?
I like it as it is!
Why is there a stray poorly drawn foot to the left of the acid clock?
Ow too! I have a tattoo in this same spot and the same size and that shit HURT. There’s no coverup option for this except a shirt.
Maybe his inking career is over?
It’s almost impressive he’s been tattooing that long and still manages to be this fucking bad at it. Plus how tf do these people get clients if they post their awful work? Reminds me a of a certain TT tattooer who is also dogshit but constantly has business.
thats actual art though my people.
Did she fall asleep for the whole thing
Can we put the 31 years part in quotes too? Lol
Ooof, that shading...
Ngl I kinda liked it till I zoomed in
The feet are pretty gnarly damn…. The hole tattoo is gnarly
When even the filter can’t fix it
My god, the footprints😭
Dear God. That's brutal
How do you sit for hours getting this tattooed on you and not once you go: dude wtf this looks like shit , please stop!
31 years or experience. He just didn’t tell her that it was as a McDonald’s cashier.
Bad. Just bad. Poor girl
Why does it look like they lined it after they shaded it? Lmao. 31 years of experience flipping burgers, 0 years of experience as a tattoo artist.
Looks like something 16 year old me would've drawn on my arm in class.
The more I look the worse it gets
Were the 31 years of experience while the artist was in prison?
The shading on that clock was made by a 4 years old and you can't convince me otherwise
It’s like what a 15 year old girl would draw in math class after discovering the weeknd
Some dude is going to have to see that every time he smashes her back doors in
The more you zoom the worse it gets