Gesture of faith

wow its nice :)

The picture is really fuzzy, from what I can see it looks okay. I would recommend using a stencil though

It looks good for a freehand :)
But still, a bit fussy. Closeups, for the fine details to be judged;)

But why stencils? Its a good thing to be able to do freehand for quick adjustments. But when you do bigger, more complicated pieces, you really want those stencil marks to follow. Its for your own help. You could forget something important. Once the machines been in your hand for 5 hours strait, and going on the last 2 hours, you really need your stencils. ;)
But I have seen perhaps 2 or 3 artist doing entirely freehands, without stencils, so not saying its impossible :ugeek:

You could always use photobucket or tinypics as an uploader ;)

I would feel comfortable doing freehanded tribal but when it comes to doing things that are a bit more intricate I feel the need to use a stencil, everything you do is permanent afterall

looks really good for a freehand piece :3
try to get a better camera. the better quality the photo the better for us to judge :3

doesnt work for me D:

Clicked it, said it was broken, sorry

I wasn’t able to see the link either … but I am not so sure I would want an artist to do a tattoo on me if it was freehand, even if they did a good job before. I say that because the final product (permanent) is all about how you get there. Process is an important aspect of any art. I may “freehand” my pencil drawings, but I have a process that starts me focused on placement / perspective / accuracy … from which I build and finish the drawing. When I get a tattoo, I would want the artist to appreciate the stencil as the initial start of the tattoo because practice makes perfect, guides keep you going and the artist in you finishes the final look. Does that make any sense?

Well, to be fair “free-handed” usually isn’t completely free-handed it usually starts with the artist drawing with sharpie directly on the skin and then tattooing it.

Is yours completely free-handed, I wonder?

I have only seen three or so, in my entire life, doing completely freehanded stuff.
(And we are no talking about my brother who bought a kit, and just started to tattoo himself, no stencil, no sterilisation, no gloves, no experience, no nothing. I have never seen a star that much off, it looks like an axe)
I mean pieces of utmost art.

im hoping to get some spray stuff samples ins oon from Stencil Stuff and do some freehand drawing tattoos soon :D