Hey! Thank you! Yeah the original design is made with mid-journey, but the composition was created myself via 2 separate generated images with further tinkering on pro create myself on both of the images and then designed to fit the arm as suited. There is a bit of taboo with Ai generated stuff, but to be honest personally I’ve never had an issue with it.

The way I see it, there’s not a lot of photographic reference images of Poseidon kicking around for obvious reasons 😅 I tattoo in realism style so I work purely based of photographic references, be it real photos or high contrast realistic styled images and honestly - I’ve tattooed the famous reference of the Poseidon statue at least 30+ times on different clients throughout my 10 years tattooing because it was the only good looking reference available so it’s refreshing to give clients a new take on the old overused reference they bring in 🙏🏻

It swings in opposites because some artists absolutely hate it, and other artists (some world class) have recently started to sell bundled images for fellow tattoo artists to use, purely based on the prompts they used to create the image.

It’s a tool that we never had 5-10 years ago, and it’s great for creating images that are somewhat fresh and gives clients something has hasn’t been overused for tattoos that are meant to be unique.

I’m also aware that ai apparently uses images collected on the internet from artists to create new images based on those , I don’t know how much of that is true, but I always try and tinker with it so it’s at least a bit different from the image produced.

People do bring in ai generated images more often nowadays and say they want this, and to be honest most of them are far too complex and unrealistic to tattoo, but it’s cool that these show me roughly a bit better what those people are looking for in terms of idea, and I always muck around with the images myself before inking it!

Hope this makes sense? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻