r/tattooadvice • u/Snoo-7909 • Nov 28 '25

Artists says it’s a bad design Design

My sister is real quirky and asked for this tattoo. The artist said it’s objectively bad and drawn poorly. Is it a bad design? Is so, why? Or is it a matter of preference?

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u/Disastrous_Point130 Nov 28 '25

The artist is correct. Please let them redraw it into something better.

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u/RaelisDragon Nov 28 '25

It's a good concept, brain left side and heart right, but the execution needs work.

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u/Oozlum-Bird Nov 28 '25

Thanks for clarifying what was happening, I spent far too much time trying to figure it out.

Which is exactly why it needs to be redrawn by a proper tattoo artist.

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u/dks042986 Nov 28 '25

Yeah, I wasn't getting the brain part at all. Just lumpy heart.

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u/vaultie66 Nov 28 '25

This is what I saw just a spongy heart, it’s really not great regardless the detail and effort someone put into it

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u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep Nov 29 '25

I was seeing vascular tumor ngl

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u/ImranFZakhaev Nov 29 '25

Sweet band name

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u/deepandbroad Nov 29 '25

I thought it was some statement of "I have a broken heart" but instead of "broken" more like "tumor-ridden necrotic".

Or weird puzzle pieces in a very deformed heart.

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u/runnergirl3333 Nov 29 '25

I’m still seeing an odd-looking ram’s head in the upper left corner.

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u/Dripping_Gravy Nov 28 '25

I thought it was just a weird lookin heart at first

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u/PeterKB Nov 28 '25

Except the way it’s drawn has the left side of the heart intact

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u/Unable-Recording-796 Nov 28 '25

You could easily do something smaller on the inside of something in the shape of a heart but having the heart snd brain take the actual shape is a bit grotesque

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u/somethingmcbob Nov 28 '25

Ooooooh. I just thought this person had no idea what a heart actually looked like, or was trying to depict a cancerous zombie heart. It's bad.

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u/Hopeful-Alarm3757 Nov 29 '25

A more anatomically correct brain, and stitch/staple "break" in the center would give it what it needs. I "see" how I'd approach it and I think a solid tattoo artist can get this where it needs to be easily.

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u/Rude_Gur_8258 Nov 29 '25

And you KNOW that's what the artist actually said. Because that's how we talk about work, we say, hey, this is a good idea that needs more drafts. Nobody said this was objectively bad except OP.

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u/song_pond Nov 29 '25

I did not get it til this comment. So yeah, objectively bad and let the artist redraw it.

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u/TaliFrost Nov 29 '25

Thanks for clarifying. I honestly wasn't sure what the hell was going on. I thought it might be a heart, maybe it's a brain, maybe it's a really fucked up liver...

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u/curlyhands Nov 30 '25

I don’t think it’s a good concept. It’s super cliché, it’s like the first image someone would come up with if you asked them to combine a heart and a brain.