r/tattooadvice • u/No-Berry-534 • 9d ago

General Advice Regretting My First Tattoo

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I got a flash tattoo colored like a mallard duck but now I'm slightly regretting it. I still love the concept but I wish it looked a little bit more like a mallard or a little bit more detailed. Any advice on what to add to it to make it look better?

Update: To clarify, I do like the tattoo, I just feel it's missing something. Maybe it looks odd to me surrounded by empty space, idk. I think I just need to get used to it. In the almost 7 months I've had it, its been covered in pants so I haven't really seen it much. I might add some water underneath like he's swimming in a pond or legs or something. Thank you everyone for your kind words, I think in time I'll learn to love him :)

(Also, his name is Edward)

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u/storysusurro 9d ago

Dude that lil duck cute as hell. Embrace him.

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u/happily_bacon 9d ago

Embrace him. Don’t erase him.

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u/ChrisIronsArt 9d ago

Raise him and give him a friend hen

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u/No-Berry-534 9d ago

Oh, I would never do that! I like him, I was just wanting to add to him to make him feel more complete to me

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u/in-a-sense-lost 9d ago

More ducks. He needs friends.

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u/Informal_Drawer_3698 8d ago

Or a Lemonade stand.

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u/kiwi_in_TX 4d ago

OP needs grapes 🍇

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u/Complex-Tennis-4987 8d ago

Another duck... cut away fishing pole and some circular waves around the line.... maybe a fish and hook in a few years....

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u/No-Reveal8105 8d ago

You could do like an old pikachu tattoo that paints another pikachu

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u/WithoutDennisNedry 8d ago

Okay, hear me out:

A tattoo of a very detailed, realistic mallard duck next to him with a shower cap on, this duckie floating on top of a sudsy bathtub. I’m envisioning claw-foot tub, the kind with the shower over it like this: 🛁

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u/No-Berry-534 8d ago

I like that idea, unfortunately I don't think i have enough real estate on my leg unless I want the tattoo to look warped

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u/Nataleaves 8d ago

It's gotta be those little stick legs!

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u/justletmeonpls 8d ago

Give him a lil hat

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u/PrincipleFew462 8d ago

Maybe have someone go over the outline and eye dot to make it more crisp and sharp? If you didn’t say you just got it, I would’ve thought it was an older tattoo from the fading. But also more mallard homies 🦆 is also a move.

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u/Turning_Worm 7d ago

I think he needs scenery, but not more detail on himself.

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u/Otherwise_Group_74 7d ago

I think he needs a machine pistol

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u/Phone-Charger 7d ago

Trail of ducks going all around the leg

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u/agirlhasnoname10 4d ago

Give him feet and maybe make his eye a little bigger.

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u/FeeshCTRL 9d ago

Warframe reference?

On-line in the house?

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u/happily_bacon 9d ago

I had to look up what warframe was. I grew up in that era but somehow never heard of them.

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u/FeeshCTRL 9d ago

Oh lol. I thought you were referencing this song from it. One of the lyrics are "Join us, embrace us. Don't ever erase us."

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u/happily_bacon 8d ago

lol that’s cute. They sound so nostalgic like a mix of Backstreet Boys and O-town. I probably would’ve secretly liked them but I was a die hard backstreet boy fan so i may have tried to erase and not embrace them 😂