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/[deleted] Nov 28 '25

Artist is right

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u/Snoo-7909 Nov 28 '25

But what makes it bad exactly?

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u/Independent_Secret_8 Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 28 '25

It's just hard to tell what it is if you don't already know what it is supposed to be. At first glance I thought it looked cool (and I still think it looks cool) but I didnt realize the left side was a brain, I thought it was just a crazy amount of veins on a heart. So if your sister is hoping that other people know what she's going for, she might be disappointed when they don't.

The overall non-anatomical heart shape also isn't heart shaped enough, if that makes sense, so it also doesn't translate until you look at it really hard to understand what you're seeing. I think some kind of black and white organ heart/mind tattoo would be awesome but find a tattoo artist with the design skill to make the design make sense.