Need your help locating a snake tattoo design...

Not to mention, a lot of tattoo artists really don't like copying another artist's work directly. It's disrespectful to the original artist's work and never looks as good!

But that's a good thing--if there is a tattoo you like, but don't like how they added fangs or it's cartoonish, tell them. Say "I like this, but I want to get rid of this and change the pose a little more to this" and they can work wonders. You don't need an exact perfect image. They'll draw it up for you and you can say yes or no and have them keep designing it until it's perfect!

All good advice so far... So you have had a tattoo "artist" take a drawing you did and brought from home and slapped it straight on your body with no alterations. No offense, but I would hesitate to call someone who does that an "artist" of any kind. As Family Jewels said, they're not called tattoo "tracers" for a reason. Someone who will take just anything that anyone draws and will slap it on their body for the right amount of money doesn't care about the quality of the tattoo, they only care about the money you're paying them to do it. Someone who really cares about the quality of tattoos that they do will openly offer suggestions as to how they can improve the drawing. The ones who REALLY care, especially about their name and reputation, will often refuse to do a piece you bring in off the street without changing it up. A good tattoo artist knows that his or her best form of advertising is word-of-mouth, and will come from people asking someone where they got that KILLER tattoo. They wouldn't put that reputation on the line by inking something that isn't well drawn, or by inking something that could be blatantly stolen from another artist.

EDIT: Here is another post I've made on the same subject... I do know tattoos and MANY tattoo artists, so I hope this advice helps...

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You'll have a lot better luck searching for an artist in your area who does the style of work that you like. Once you pick the artist for the job, they will generally include drawing and designing the tattoo in the price of the piece. Then you can talk to the artist who will be doing the work and either work out a time to bring the animal in for him to draw from, or find a pic of the animal to take for reference. No matter who you find on the internet who is willing to draw something up for you, any tattoo artist worth his salt will end up redrawing the whole piece to fit the flow of your body and to make the design appropriate for tattooing. Not every picture or design works as a tattoo and nobody would know better than a tattoo artist what works and what doesn't...

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I really don't have any advice on where to find a pic of a realistic tat of a snake. Most of my tats are my own ideas. I can't draw worth crap but I'm lucky I have a tattoo artist who's great at hearing me describe what I want and he will draw it out for me. The only time I ever used a picture is when I wanted my motorcycle inked on me. He went through my pics on my facebook of my bike at his leisure and messaged me a few days later saying he had a drawing he wanted me to see. He got it right the first drawing and the ink turned out much better than I anticipated. I know he was happy with it :D (it's realistic, all done in reds and shades)

From my own experience all I can suggest is find a picture of one of your pets you like (or even a random one) and ask your artist about doing a realistic design of it and get his or her creative juices flowing!

Thanks, but again I guess I am asking the wrong questions because the answers are way off from what I'm looking for. :(

I am NOT looking for an EXACT picture of what to get. I am looking for a specific STYLE. There are many STYLES and I don't know what the STYLE I want is called. I can only envision it in my head. It is not traditional/cartoonish and it is not quite realistic. I don't want a portrait as many seem to think. Kind of somewhere between the three. If I could find the name/examples or the style I want I would have the artist use this to draw what I want in the style I want. What I want I don't want in just ANY style. We live a long way from our preferred tattoo artist (couple hour trip), so I want to have these ideas and styles all lined up so they can work with them and put them together to create what I want. I don't see how this could be considered tracing when it is just giving them a better example of what I want. I believe me asking this is on here a lost cause. So mods, please close/delete/whatever you do this thread. I will ask this on a forum dedicated to body modification.

Sorry for the trouble. :(

Mike Devries is one of my favorite tattoo artists. He has a few snake tattoos on the website, but you can see his skill with realism in a few other tattoos in his animal gallery.

http://www.mdtattoos.com/tattoos/ani...oos_16575.html

A girl on DeviantART does REALLY good tattoos, a lot of her work is tribal (but that's because so many people want tribal tattoo designs!) but she does snakes, and she does a good job on them. Plus she's pretty versatile; I'm sure if you talk to her, she can make whatever you wanted. :)

http://wildspiritwolf.deviantart.com/

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I am NOT looking for an EXACT picture of what to get. I am looking for a specific STYLE. There are many STYLES and I don't know what the STYLE I want is called. I can only envision it in my head. It is not traditional/cartoonish and it is not quite realistic. I don't want a portrait as many seem to think. Kind of somewhere between the three.

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And what I'm trying to say that is possibly being misunderstood is to call or email your tattoo artist EXACTLY what you just posted. That will be enough to get him/her started on some ideas, then you can collaborate to come up with exactly what you want...

If you're looking for a site dedicated to tattoos, run by a great one where the majority of the forum participants are also tattoo artists, try www.tattoodles.com. I will warn you though, even if you get some responses that aren't exactly what you're looking for, just thank them for the ideas and move on. It's pretty tacky IMO (even on this site) to go on a public forum asking for responses and balk at the people trying to help you, calling it a lost cause and stomping off like that... Just say thank you and move on...

Thinkin myself about putting my logo on my arm. Still 50/50 on the idea.http://img.tapatalk.com/56141cee-000d-2f23.jpg

Without the PP and no gradient

This is one of the better ones I've seen:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2...pm8xo1_500.jpg

I understand and have been looking for the same thing. Most snake tattoos are very poorly done and many artists don't know the difference between a ball and a boa.

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This is one of the better ones I've seen:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2...pm8xo1_500.jpg

I understand and have been looking for the same thing. Most snake tattoos are very poorly done and many artists don't know the difference between a ball and a boa.

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WOAH!




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