Too many people who are getting their first tattoo make the mistake of thinking that it's just a collection of lines.
Yes, obviously, ink is lines on your skin in two dimensions.
But so many of the best tattoo designs really do look three-dimensional, and have extra dimensions to them in a variety of different ways. That’s why a lot of customers try to find a specific shop that shares their vision.
Superior Tattoo Work
It all has to do with the same fundamental artistic ideas behind traditional fields like drawing and painting, or newer fields like graphic design.
Extensive color palates and differentiating techniques and other methods lead to the development of tattoos that seem to ‘come to life’ on the body. Imagine, for example, a dragon inked on a bicep or across someone’s back. Maybe when you sketch it, it’s “just lines” – but then you add color and shading, and detail, and you add…dimension!
To be fair, you don't get this with the average tattoo shop – there's a whole spectrum of ink, from the humblest prison tattoo to the thousand-dollar work of art spread from one rib or elbow blade to another.
In other words, you get out of a tattoo what you put into it. People who read tattoo magazines or have substantial in-shop experience know this.
Art and Tattoos
At Grape Ape Tattoo, we feel that our experience in fields like film an illustration have prepared us for offering superior tattoo designs. That’s because another extra dimension of tattoos is their relevance to intellectual concepts and their design relative to ideas in pop culture or elsewhere.
More of today's customers want tattoos that don't just look “okay.” They want ink that is not only elegant in its application, but based on sophisticated design concepts, whether that has to do with applying color, creating intricate patterns, or talking in references to various pop culture icons or aspects of a particular civilization or society.
It's not just anchors and hearts that say “mom” – that's the caricature version of what people think of when they think about “tattoos,” but today's ink world is really pretty different. Just look at our gallery and what we do for people who want really excellent ink done, designs that they can treasure for the rest of their lives, not look at in the mirror and wish they’d erased.
If you want a mediocre tattoo that just looks okay, you can go anywhere. If you want sophisticated ink done – if you want your ink to speak to the world – you should come here.