Cherry blossom branch

[DiarrheaSuitcase]

Did this lil guy a couple of weeks ago....

Vivace 9mag bugpin, Capo 5rl

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[Sage Oz]

Looks good, bright colors and definitely could not be the easiest canvas to stretch. The flowers look nice and the shading is clean and solid. On an artistic note I think the branch would have benefitted from darker shading and more defined twists and knurles, some parts are a bit pale and 'wiggly' without purpose if that makes sense, but nothing a bit more time couldn't help. As the saying goes you can always add more but it's harder to take it away, right? haha. Clean tattoo bro:)

[Gunwin]

Looks good, bright colors and definitely could not be the easiest canvas to stretch. The flowers look nice and the shading is clean and solid. On an artistic note I think the branch would have benefitted from darker shading and more defined twists and knurles, some parts are a bit pale and 'wiggly' without purpose if that makes sense, but nothing a bit more time couldn't help. As the saying goes you can always add more but it's harder to take it away, right? haha. Clean tattoo bro:)

Same as the above, this is lovely and clean, spot on :-)

[Sekt]

Excellent skills, like the grey lines around flowers, looks natural, although careful with making a thing natural, it can look like one is trying too hard, as sage said a tiny bit wiggley!. Of course you are getting the hardest observation here, I'd say customer loves it. Lovely blends and like the lines of colour on the leaves, means that you probably look at everything around you to notice something like this, and that is the mark of an Artist. Personally I would have added a few dots of white, onthe leaves, but thats me..

[DiarrheaSuitcase]

Cool, thanks guys.

Stretch-wise, I hate the love handle area. This one was no different. :)

I agree with the darker shading on the branches. The darkest brown in the branch was Fusion's Power Brown. Intenze's dark brown is just as light. I guess next time I'll need to add some black to get it good n dark.

Yeah, more knots and twists would have been good. I think that was the purpose in the wiggly sections of the branch. I could have used the recesses in those to add depth, but I didn't... next time. :)

Thanks for the observations and criticisms.... thats what helps us grow. ;)

[Alie K]

Blech. I hate tattooing that area too! I usually use at least one pillow under them, sometimes two so I don't actually have to stretch as much. Looks nice and clean. I'm a fan of the teal 'background' myself (when people let me do it!)