My Tattoo Addiction

Nice Botty

Saw an ad for this on Channel 4 - looks interesting! Thursday I think

Adiboo

Old news - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81247569

General consensus is that it shows the worst side of the tattoo industry.

Nice Botty

Adiboo wrote: »

Old news - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81247569

General consensus is that it shows the worst side of the tattoo industry.

Oh. This looks like a new programme ?

Adiboo

Oh, you're right. My bad!

Let's hope this second series does a better job than the first documentary.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-tattoo-addiction/episode-guide

Arawn

they certainly couldn't make a worse one than last time

Nice Botty

Adiboo wrote: »

Oh, you're right. My bad!

Let's hope this second series does a better job than the first documentary.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-tattoo-addiction/episode-guide

Was the first one that bad ?

Arawn

they focused on a scratcher and a middle aged man who kept getting miley cyrus tattoos iirc

P.K.M.

Nice Botty wrote: »

Was the first one that bad ?

Yeah, the first one really was sh!te, very bad portrayal of people getting tatts. Really annoyed me.

Atavan-Halen

The first episode is on 4OD if you want to watch it.

Hopefully this second episode focuses more on sensible people getting decent tattoos!

P_1

Watching the first episode now, interesting to say the least.

Slightly OT but I wonder if anyone else is of the opinion that portraits just don't seem to look well as tattoos?

Atavan-Halen

No, they can IMO. It's all down to the artist really.

P_1

Yeah fair point actually depends 100% on the artist. I think the outlining makes them look a bit severe looking at times where more of a watercolour style would look softer.

Adiboo

Portraits with outlines can be just as awesome. Here's a traditional style one done by Paul in Spilled Ink for example.

P_1

Ha true, seems I was guilty of letting a few dodgy looking portraits clouding my judgement on them as a whole. Move along folks nothing to see here :P

RhoDoDenDron

P_1 wrote: »

Watching the first episode now, interesting to say the least.

Slightly OT but I wonder if anyone else is of the opinion that portraits just don't seem to look well as tattoos?

I agree. Even well-done portraits just don't look good to me as tattoos.

P_1

RhoDoDenDron wrote: »

I agree. Even well-done portraits just don't look good to me as tattoos.

I'm not sure why it is but a lot of black and grey portraits seem to be overly shaded in the face which tends to distort them slightly. Possibly controversial but it seems that some artists don't have the skill to do them justice in black and grey

raze_them_all_

I think this is a brilliant portrait


as was pointed out, it all depends on the talent doing it

Marty McFly

Just set this to record but given Channel 4's last shambolic attempt at this I'm not holding out much hope other that it being terrible once again.

Just Like Heaven

P_1 wrote: »

I'm not sure why it is but a lot of black and grey portraits seem to be overly shaded in the face which tends to distort them slightly.

Puts me off a lot as well but in many cases the pic is fresh, they brighten up an awful lot once the blood's out.

You're not completely wrong though, there's a lot more bad portraits out there than there is good ones. Basically to be safe you have to go to somebody who has been dishing out portraits and realism all day everyday for years.

P_1

Just saw an ad for it there, sadly it looks like we're going to be getting more of the same in the new episode

jenizzle

Any of you have a link to the new show? I can only see the older documentary on 4OD!

Adiboo

Not on till tomorrow!

Nice Botty

P_1 wrote: »

Just saw an ad for it there, sadly it looks like we're going to be getting more of the same in the new episode

There was someone in the ad with tattoos all over his puss wondering why he couldn't get a job....

jenizzle

Adiboo wrote: »

Not on till tomorrow!

:rolleyes: It'd help if I could read :P

Atavan-Halen

Just starting now on channel 4. Going to want a new tattoo immediately after.

Just Like Heaven

Ugh what's going on.

Just Like Heaven

I take it all back the where's Wally thing was hilarious.

Reg'stoy

From the sublime of the Family getting their tattoo's (very touching) to the absolutely ridiculous of the where's wally nonsense.

The emotion in just the one word HOPE was very evident and I now realise that tattoo's can be so much more than just ink.

P_1

I know we all try to be non-judgemental here about all types of tattooing but the folks getting them done when they're locked on a sun holiday is making it very tough to do so to be honest.

P.K.M.

P_1 wrote: »

I know we all try to be non-judgemental here about all types of tattooing but the folks getting them done when they're locked on a sun holiday is making it very tough to do so to be honest.

Have to agree, how does it look for people who have put time and effort and imagination into their tatts!!

P_1

P.K.M. wrote: »

Have to agree, how does it look for people who have put time and effort and imagination into their tatts!!

Not good would be putting it mildly I'd say!! Very poor ethics on the part of the studios that do them too to be honest

raze_them_all_

P.K.M. wrote: »

Have to agree, how does it look for people who have put time and effort and imagination into their tatts!!

to be fair not everyone needs effort and imagination into tatts to be happy with them. I have a few on the spur ones that i think look good and am happy with

P_1

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

to be fair not everyone needs effort and imagination into tatts to be happy with them. I have a few on the spur ones that i think look good and am happy with

Yeah but to be fair there is a bit of a difference between getting a tattoo done on the spur of the moment when you're sober and stumbling into a studio in a drunken haze, pointing at some flash and saying put that on my arse.

Killer_banana

fewtins wrote: »

Puts me off a lot as well but in many cases the pic is fresh, they brighten up an awful lot once the blood's out.

You're not completely wrong though, there's a lot more bad portraits out there than there is good ones. Basically to be safe you have to go to somebody who has been dishing out portraits and realism all day everyday for years.

Some artists just can't do portraits. I heard one say before he hates them because while if you're tattooing an object or design on someone and you need to adjust the design a bit to fit the flow of the body it's still that object or design. You adjust a face and it looks completely different. 'Here's a person you don't know!'

I was considering looking this up on 4od but then I caught the bit of y'man with face tattoos moaning about not being able to get a job and it turned me right off. Does it suck that a lot of industries dsicriminate against tattooed folk, sure, but at the end of the day we chose to get tattoos and we could have easily chose not to. Societal attitudes are what they are and if he wanted a job he shouldn't have tattooed his face.

Marty McFly

Just watching the second episode now it's like they go out of there way to find people who are out there from some the people that have the tattoo's to the artists.

Most but not all of the tattoo's are terrible aswell.

It typical car crash tv really but anyone certainly from a or biased point of view wont against body mods will probably walk away having there beliefs reinforced.

P_1

Marty McFly wrote: »

Just watching the second episode now it's like they go out of there way to find people who are out there from some the people that have the tattoo's to the artists.

Most but not all of the tattoo's are terrible aswell.

It typical car crash tv really but anyone certainly from a or biased point of view wont against body mods will probably walk away having there beliefs reinforced.

Yeah without a doubt. Yer man Woody seemed to go out of his way to give artists and people with tattoos a particularly bad name and the less said about that drunken idiot with his burger nipple thing the better

Marty McFly

P_1 wrote: »

Yeah without a doubt. Yer man Woody seemed to go out of his way to give artists and people with tattoos a particularly bad name and the less said about that drunken idiot with his burger nipple thing the better

Exactly I also had to laugh at your man who co owns the studio in Magaluf sitting there trying to take the moral high ground saying "this is what I have to deal with on a daily basis I don't know what I must have done in a previous life to deserve this" Yeh while he sits there late at night tattooing people who are clearly pissed and seconds later shows some bloke with barely any visible coverage getting a star tattooed on his hand.

Your man Woody is a fool his and friend Ivor with there controversial Hitler tattoo.

The more I think of it so many gobshiites on one show.

P_1

Marty McFly wrote: »

Exactly I also had to laugh at your man who co owns the studio in Magaluf sitting there trying to take the moral high ground saying "this is what I have to deal with on a daily basis I don't know what I must have done in a previous life to deserve this" Yeh while he sits there late at night tattooing people who are clearly pissed and seconds later shows some bloke with barely any visible coverage getting a star tattooed on his hand.

Your man Woody is a fool his and friend Ivor with there controversial Hitler tattoo.

The more I think of it so many gobshiites on one show.

There area few non gobshítes there to try balance out the non gobshítery though, the chap having his dog's ashes included in the portrait of the dog seemed to know his stuff about his tattoos and the lady getting nipples tattooed after her mastectomy was a nice touch. The sun holiday drunken fools and the studios that catered to them really annoyed me though.

Marty McFly

P_1 wrote: »

There area few non gobshítes there to try balance out the non gobshítery though, the chap having his dog's ashes included in the portrait of the dog seemed to know his stuff about his tattoos and the lady getting nipples tattooed after her mastectomy was a nice touch. The sun holiday drunken fools and the studios that catered to them really annoyed me though.

Yeh the lad getting his dog portrait is the main reason I said most not all the tattoo's are poor. Most of his work looked good and he seemed to research and put thought into who and were he would get them done.

The nipples was a nice touch alright.

But sadly the bad far outweighs the good.

P_1

Marty McFly wrote: »

Yeh the lad getting his dog portrait is the main reason I said most not all the tattoo's are poor. Most of his work looked good and he seemed to research and put thought into who and were he would get them done.

The nipples was a nice touch alright.

But sadly the bad far outweighs the good.

Yeah unfortunately, the chap getting scorpions on his face to cover ex's names, you'd think that lazering would have been a far better option that coverups

Orim

I can't believe I had nothing better to do then watch that.

I didn't see the guy getting the dog potrait though I wasn't paying full attention though.

That guy Woody pissed me off. Controversial tattoos fine but at least be good tattoos and don't talk down all tattoos because you do stupid things.

And the burger nipple guy. I have no words.

And the guy who wants to be a bodybuilder getting a backpiece. Genius.

The transgirl made for a nice story. Glad they focused a lot on her.

Marty McFly

Orim wrote: »

I can't believe I had nothing better to do then watch that.

I didn't see the guy getting the dog potrait though I wasn't paying full attention though.

That guy Woody pissed me off. Controversial tattoos fine but at least be good tattoos and don't talk down all tattoos because you do stupid things.

And the burger nipple guy. I have no words.

And the guy who wants to be a bodybuilder getting a backpiece. Genius.

The transgirl made for a nice story. Glad they focused a lot on her.

The guy with the dog portrait was from the first episode .

Orim

Still don't remember him. About the only thing I remember from that is the girl with the cats and the guy with Miley Cyrus. Actually I'd love if they did a follow-up interview with him now.

Marty McFly

Orim wrote: »

Still don't remember him. About the only thing I remember from that is the girl with the cats and the guy with Miley Cyrus. Actually I'd love if they did a follow-up interview with him now.

Ah yea see you're missing an episode there , the girl with the cats and Miley Cyrus tattoo's were in the one off episode about a year ago and the other one ya seen was the second episode in the new series which started last week .

Although yeh I'd love to hear what mister Miley Cyrus has to say now or if he has a tattoo of her licking a sledge hammer :pac:.

Orim

It doesn't seem to be on 4od. Ah well probably a good thing because otherwise I'd watch it and depress myself.

jenizzle

Yeah, I couldn't see the 1st episode of the 2nd season on 4od. Watching the 2nd episode now, that cover up was awful Haven't seen any outstanding work yet!

Charlie19

New episode on Ch4 now.

Holy sh*t, the artists must think some people are on the wind up.

The tats people are getting:eek:

Marty McFly

So we finally got to see the face behind that famous Twilight Tattoo :eek:

P_1

Marty McFly wrote: »

So we finally got to see the face behind that famous Twilight Tattoo :eek:

Some amount of cash she's splashed out for all the tattoos too

Marty McFly

P_1 wrote: »

Some amount of cash she's splashed out for all the tattoos too

Yeh and she came across quite normal at first I thought she would be quite unhinged almost like Miley Cyrus guy just a shame all the portraits were terrible.


The woman who lost her husband really did have a touching story and normally I hate the sob stories attached and it was very nicely done and the tattoo aswell was nicely done a rarity on this show.

P_1

Marty McFly wrote: »

Yeh and she came across quite normal at first I thought she would be quite unhinged almost like Miley Cyrus guy just a shame all the portraits were terrible.


The woman who lost her husband really did have a touching story and normally I hate the sob stories attached and it was very nicely done and the tattoo aswell was nicely done a rarity on this show.

True, sure aren't most folk who have tattoos quite normal though :P

All in all a decent enough show this evening, had to laugh at the artist from Blackpool though, "who the fook did that to you"