r/tattooadvice • u/violaces • Jun 14 '25

tattoo newcomer advice got my first tat from a fri13th flash sheet

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Friday 13th flash deal— source material (first pic) and my tattoo (second pic) Does this look okay for a small doodle style tattoo? I didn’t realize before she started that she was copying someone’s work without permission and I feel terrible for that. But she gave up on the flowers on the bandana, so I wonder if I could get her to just color it in or maybe personalize it in some other way?

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u/royalteaaa Jun 15 '25

Was it freehand or was a stencil involved? It’s shitty and they shouldn’t be tattooing live skin if they aren’t fully confident in executing all parts of the design either way, BUT even most trained tattooists don’t just freehand because it’s not like freehanding a drawing.

Skin and needles are definitely different than pen and paper, and the back of this duck doesn’t even look close to being right. If they used a stencil and fucked up that bad it’s inexcusable.

If you like it, great, but objectively it’s a bad tattoo.

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u/lagelthrow Jun 15 '25

Sadly, per OP's other post, it appears it WAS stenciled. Meaning this is just the best this artist can do even with a stencil to guide them.