Animal Tattoos

larryone

There are two ideas for designs i'd been thinking of recently (one of them more recent than the other)
Both involve aimals... either an irish wolfhound or a black labrador (possibly both) on my back, and an elephant on my left calf.
In terms of what people have said as regards different artists being particularly good at different styles (tribal, celtic, balck, grey, shading, etc...) are there any that would be particularly good at doing high detail tatoos of animals?

Blub2k4

larryone wrote:

There are two ideas for designs i'd been thinking of recently (one of them more recent than the other)
Both involve aimals... either an irish wolfhound or a black labrador (possibly both) on my back, and an elephant on my left calf.
In terms of what people have said as regards different artists being particularly good at different styles (tribal, celtic, balck, grey, shading, etc...) are there any that would be particularly good at doing high detail tatoos of animals?

When you say high detail are you looking for a lifelike likeness (portrait) or a particular style?

larryone

Blub2k4 wrote:

When you say high detail are you looking for a lifelike likeness (portrait) or a particular style?

lifelike would be more it....
something with this sort of detail
http://www.sacredflashunauthorized.com/elephant.jpg
http://www.tattoo.co.za/data/tattoos/sim/new/elephant.jpg
http://www.kustomkulture.co.uk/elephant2.jpg

for the elephant on my calf....
the tattoo on my back would be of similar detail

Blub2k4

I'll be in with Gav in Zulu on Friday and will ask him who he reckons is the best for animal work like that, in fairness it is almost portraiture so you will need someone who can do lifelike.

larryone

dropped into zulu yesterday and talked to one of the guys briefly. when i was saying about high detail, he showed me a ttattoo on his forearm and said anything that detailed is doable. i was impressed. now i just have to go and save up the 250 euro =0)

Blub2k4

Ah ok cool, see visiting the studio is the best way to do it.
Good luck.