Children Portraits

Portraits are very difficult tattoos to design, with the shading and with trying to achieve the best identical portrait of the picture the artist is given. With these two pieces my dad had a woman come into the tattoo shop saying that she wanted to get portraits of both of her kids from when they were younger on her shoulder blades. She then gave him the two pictures she wanted of her kids when they were younger. He then drew the pictures on his own and added the shading to them. The shading in a portrait tattoo is the most important thing, also the most difficult thing. it is what makes the tattoo resemble the picture given. The artist must make sure to get the facial features as identical to the picture as he or she can. Portraits can take a very long time. These particular pieces took four hours each so these were a lot a of work and a lot of sitting for this woman.  However she made it through and now she has two beautiful portraits of her children on her shoulder blades.