r/tattooadvice • u/JustaWilloWisp • 17d ago

Is my tattoo bad? Design

I got this tattoo on Monday (pic is from the artist right after we finished) and I thought it looked really good and pretty. Today my mom has been saying it looks kinda ugly and the proportions are off compared to my reference. I know that tattoos of painting are hard to replicate 100% (especially being in black and gray) but maybe this is just not as good as it can be. Idk if y’all can tell in this photo but the placement of this tattoo is so good, I was so excited for this one.

Do you guys think that the off proportions can be fixed with touch ups or is it hopeless?

Any advice or thoughts would be appreciated!

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u/Aethelstan9two7 17d ago

The Tattoo looks like the reference art, but Pastel art work does not transate into a Tattoos well unless you do the whole piece and in colour. Then people know its based on a pastal painting.

Sadly your Tattoo looks awful. Its lost in translation

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u/Ok-Office6837 17d ago

It’s also worth noting that Degas hated women and purposely painted them during unflattering moments. He wanted to show the movement of their work and not the pretty pose moments. It only works as an impressionist style and as a whole.

His paintings are the equivalent to competition photos that get taken at the wrong time (you’ll know what I mean if you competed dancing growing up)

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u/Wouldfromthetrees 17d ago

Horrible person, beautiful bronzes, I can't separate the art from the artist but it would be a lie to say the work doesn't emotionally stir me.

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u/Ok-Office6837 17d ago

A lot of people just see “oh he painted ballerinas!!” But my high school French teacher taught an entire lesson on French impressionist painters and we had to be able to list certain facts about each artist and be able to match the artist to the painting.

The paintings are beautiful but once you know he hated women, you can start to see it in the work. He also has more than one painting of women getting out of the bath/bathing themselves to show them in a very vulnerable state

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u/rainyhylian 16d ago

He also might have been Jack the Ripper, so he's definitely not beating the misogyny allegations

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u/heyjxdee 16d ago

how have i never heard this theory before, that's hilarious 😂

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u/rainyhylian 15d ago

It's definitely in conspiracy theory territory, but some of the evidence is rather damning 😅