 How to Design Your Own Tattoo
Looking to get a unique one of a kind tattoo? It will certainly pay off to learn how to design your own tattoo,
it may even save you some money. Even if you're not especially talented in the arts it's still completely possible
to design your own tattoo.
There are several ways to learn how to design your own tattoo including just taking the easy way out by thinking
of you own idea and having an artist draw up the actual image for you or by going to a good tattoo website like
www.tattoomenow.com and select one out of more than 4000 templates in 40
different categories and then modify it to make it yours.
However, to get started on your own, here are some very important tips to remember: as a beginner, start with a
simple design. It could be just a black and white design, a line drawing or a pattern.
If you do use color it's strongly recommended to keep it down to using 2 colors only as this will make you design
much easier to execute.
Keep your line work clean and simple, don't ad a lot of detail when you're first learning how to design your own
tattoo because with less detail it's easier to control the quality
of your design where as more detail can slow down your progress through design process and become tired an
unsteady. As they say, "People may not talk about a good tattoo, but they will talk about a bad one."
Artistic Talent
For people with passable artistic talent the process of learning how to design your own tattoo is even easier.
When learning how to design your own tattoo just have in mind that you may not create that perfect design right
away, just have fun and relax.
First of all when looking for ideas on how to design your own tattoo there are several approaches: you can go to
tattoo parlours and find tattoo designs you like and edit them by either changing something, taking away elements
or even adding elements either from a design idea you have or a detail from another tattoo design.
Second, don't just limit finding your inspiration from tattoo parlours,
- You can go to museums and look at designs used on artifacts and artwork from your local area or from other
countries.
- You can go to art galleries, libraries and bookstores and look for small scale designs for things like
embroidery, sci-fi and fantasy artwork books, bead work patterns and jewelry designs, etc.
- If nature is your thing you can look at landscape, animal, plant and flower photo books and try to discover
ways you can combine the different elements to design your very own special tattoo.
- The possibilities are endless when you want to learn how to design your own tattoo.
 In actuality, these same techniques can be very
useful for the artistically challenged as an approach to becoming more artistically inclined, making it even
easier for you to learn how design your own tattoo. The thing to remember is that visual art doesn't only
exist because of the skilled talent of the artists, all visual art starts with a desire to express ideas and
these ideas are then influenced by the design esthetic of the artists who create it for all to see. Anyone can
have a 'design esthetic' it's as simple as asking yourself "What would you like to see?" and then you take it
from there.
Now let's not forget the other endless resource of inspiration and information we can use to learn how to design
your own tattoo, the Internet. There are literally thousands of websites out there that you could source original
ideas from to come up with your own tattoo design (click here to see our websites
review), from online tattoo galleries, clip art galleries, cultural web pages, historical galleries, Celtic art
pages, botanical and animal galleries and even architectural galleries and web pages. Just remember bookmark your
favourite pages or save images you like to a folder on your computer for future reference.
Since it's not always easy, even for an artist to come up with an idea from scratch, when learning how to design
your own tattoo, once you've got a few design elements together that inspire you give it a try and put them
together into your first 'concept'. In this process it's helpful to draw lightly on your paper, then when you see
the design you want, darken up the lines you need for your design and make a 'clean' copy of it on a piece of
tracing paper. This useful tip is to help you produce a more professional result in your tattoo design. Also if you
want to try and add something or take it away from your initial design, using tracing paper will make it a lot
easier than erasing or drawing over your original pattern and ruining it and then having to start the whole design
over again.
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Have fun and happy designing!
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