My day job is as the office manager for a tattoo studio, so this post caught my attention.
The design is beautiful, but you should know before you set your heart into this design that there are parts of it that make it truly difficult, perhaps impossible depending on certain factors, to render as you have it in this image.
Your choices would be for the tattoo to be extremely large, or for the petals in those tiny rings/flowers to be done a little differently. Let me draw your attention to the tiny gaps of space between each "petal" on the colored rings that make the flowers. Even if it were possible to render the tattoo from the beginning to leave those tiny gaps, the pigment under the skin will, in time, disperse until you only have tiny colored rings with the circles in the center. The petals will blur together. Most reputable tattoo artists wouldn't even try to tattoo this design exactly the way it is in this image unless it was enlarged a great deal (on my screen it is roughly 3 inches by 4 inches).
That's not to say that something couldn't be done to make the design work, but this exact design probably wouldn't. Not as it is.
It's a beautiful design though. A good tattoo artist could definitely use it as a starting point for something that would work. I have no clue where you are located, but tattoo artists are a bit like writers, mostly familiar with one another's work. Our shop is in Atlanta, but chances are, I might be able to get a recommendation for a trustworthy and talented artist near you, wherever you are, with whom you could consult.
Ideally, you could work with them to come up with a design that would work perfectly, then you could stick that one to your bathroom mirror for six months or so. *grin*
(I always feel terrible for people who come in with designs they've thought about for months or years, and then some detail of the design is too small to last, or for some other reason won't quite work in a tattoo. That's the reason why I felt the urge to say something.)
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The design is beautiful, but you should know before you set your heart into this design that there are parts of it that make it truly difficult, perhaps impossible depending on certain factors, to render as you have it in this image.
Your choices would be for the tattoo to be extremely large, or for the petals in those tiny rings/flowers to be done a little differently. Let me draw your attention to the tiny gaps of space between each "petal" on the colored rings that make the flowers. Even if it were possible to render the tattoo from the beginning to leave those tiny gaps, the pigment under the skin will, in time, disperse until you only have tiny colored rings with the circles in the center. The petals will blur together. Most reputable tattoo artists wouldn't even try to tattoo this design exactly the way it is in this image unless it was enlarged a great deal (on my screen it is roughly 3 inches by 4 inches).
That's not to say that something couldn't be done to make the design work, but this exact design probably wouldn't. Not as it is.
It's a beautiful design though. A good tattoo artist could definitely use it as a starting point for something that would work. I have no clue where you are located, but tattoo artists are a bit like writers, mostly familiar with one another's work. Our shop is in Atlanta, but chances are, I might be able to get a recommendation for a trustworthy and talented artist near you, wherever you are, with whom you could consult.
Ideally, you could work with them to come up with a design that would work perfectly, then you could stick that one to your bathroom mirror for six months or so. *grin*
(I always feel terrible for people who come in with designs they've thought about for months or years, and then some detail of the design is too small to last, or for some other reason won't quite work in a tattoo. That's the reason why I felt the urge to say something.)