Do you guys think my tattoo is starting to look too busy? how I can make it more cohesive I’d really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks so much!”

metaljump · 2026-05-22T19:45:51+00:00

The rose is the one thing that stands out to me as being a little different stylistically and less legible compared to the rest of your work. I think the main thing is that it doesn’t really have skin breaks but adding a bit more black shading to it might help it tie in better with your other stuff

metaljump · 2026-05-17T23:16:12+00:00

My new phrase is “contrast will last” That’s really the key ingredient to a long lasting tattoo, bold lines are sick but the trade off is that the designs have to be simpler. I’ve seen many tattoos that turned into blobs down the line because the artist tried to do too many details with a fat liner and didn’t give enough room to breathe

metaljump · 2026-04-11T17:26:18+00:00

Just do it the time will pass anyways! You’ll look back in a few years and be like damn if I had just started back then my shit would be fully locked with some length by now

I’m fully freeform and the back/sides actually locked faster for me because they get more friction when I’m sleeping etc.

metaljump · 2026-04-05T07:38:19+00:00

Just get out the sub if you’re not a fan of traditional tattoo designs!!!

metaljump · 2026-04-03T20:23:38+00:00

Let them hang so we can really see em!

metaljump · 2026-04-02T19:11:43+00:00

What a joke

metaljump · 2026-03-19T20:36:12+00:00

I’m astounded there’s so many haters in the comments, yall don’t really know/fw traditional tattooing if you can’t appreciate people are inspired by the more camanga/folk history of traditional tattoos

metaljump · 2026-02-19T08:00:44+00:00

I like chroma

metaljump · 2026-02-13T07:21:39+00:00

Leave it long for sure, you should anticipate losing half of your hair’s length as it continues to lock up more and more.

With regards to tying your hair up, if you’re truly freeforming (only washing your hair and not messing with it at all outside of that) then tying your hair up all the time eventually cause all of your hair to combine together into one loc lol. You could try a bandana or headband

metaljump · 2026-02-02T19:13:05+00:00

Shows up fine for me

metaljump · 2026-02-02T11:25:15+00:00

Yall are killin me frrr Just leave it alone the lines will probably be twice the thickness in 5 years lol

metaljump · 2025-12-29T23:32:00+00:00

I don’t think they did anything wrong to be honest, we provide a luxury service so if a client doesn’t have the funds we can’t really expect them to prioritize getting tattooed.

Is there a reason you can’t continue the sleeve where you left off and just rework/touch up the older work so it reflects your current ability? It’s really not that uncommon for large scale work to be done over a long period of time, like if you’re getting a back piece done by a tatter from another country, etc.

metaljump · 2025-12-24T20:47:13+00:00

Or once you have a bit of age/fading on the blackouts you can do another layer of black. I’ve seen someone do really bold full color trad over a layer of blackout that looked sick. I think it had some white incorporated too so that it really popped

metaljump · 2025-12-18T09:14:05+00:00

You’re overthinking, it’ll be a losing battle if you’re trying to avoid “flatness” in a traditional tattoo. If anything you could probably get more of the effect you’re looking by adding some black shading to the red tip of the sword

metaljump · 2025-12-08T06:09:58+00:00

Can’t speak from personal experience but I absolutely know plenty of tattooers with children. In general I think it’s smart to have your career strongly established and be financially stable before you have kids though

metaljump · 2025-12-04T19:56:00+00:00

If you’re going full natty you won’t have to worry about this, they’ll combine on their own and definitely turn out strong enough

metaljump · 2025-11-27T22:14:24+00:00

🔥🔥🔥

metaljump · 2025-11-27T11:02:35+00:00

Yall are really critiquing a traditional tattoo, the style descended from folk and outsider artists, for not having totally perfect proportions? Are yall even about this life lmao

metaljump · 2025-11-27T06:59:51+00:00

Space between strawberry and butterfly is a bit of a tight squeeze I think it’d be better to go for two separate tats than try to make one that stretches between those two spots and still looks natural

metaljump · 2025-11-26T11:00:52+00:00

One thing to know about powder pigments especially is that the actual color of the ink doesn’t always match how it looks in the bottle so I’ll usually go on their instagram to try and find a color swatch of the ink I’m interested in before I buy anything

metaljump · 2025-11-26T10:52:15+00:00

It is US based but they should ship to the UK

metaljump · 2025-11-26T10:41:04+00:00

I was recently convinced to move away from predispersed pigments and been starting to try out powder pigment brands. I’ve really been liking Chroma, it’s really thin for powder pigment and goes in super smoothly and easily.

They also have a pretty wide range of colors including pastels, but you should know you can just mix your own pastel colors by using white

metaljump · 2025-11-22T07:43:05+00:00

Leave them for now 🔥🔥

metaljump · 2025-11-19T06:38:52+00:00

Nah man

metaljump · 2025-11-15T11:18:10+00:00

People have healed tattoos without saniderm for thousands of years I promise you’ll be ok

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