Biomechanical Tattoos

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Admin
Biomechanical Tattoos

Biomechanical Tattoos

Online

There may be a few of you out there who are lucky enough to know exactly what you want and where and how big and in what style, but for the rest of you who want a tattoo but don’t know what you want, a great first stop is www.bmezine.com. The website offers thousands of free tattoo thumbnails categorized by style from old school to new skool, black and grey to biomechanical, to Asian to portraits and more. In addition to the photos, the website publishes personal accounts of people’s experiences, both good and bad. If there is a drawback to the site it is that the photos have all been sent in by collectors and aren’t always of the best quality. Take some time to browse through the thumbnails, read what folks have to say. In the end you may be a step closer to your tattoo or you might decide it’s not for you after all.

Offline

Tattoo magazines are another good source of inspiration and like BME, offer more than just photos of tattoos. For example, in addition to featuring the ink from a handful of collectors every month, the aptly named magazine, Tattoo, profiles a shop, interviews at least one artist, and features highlights from conventions around the world.

Conventions, incidentally, are also great places for ideas and although admission is not free, they offer one thing that neither the internet nor the magazines do and that is access to artists in real time. Many artists. Artists not only from around the country but around the world, each with their own styles and interpretations of the art form. For example, over one hundred artists were featured at the 2009 Boston Tattoo Convention, an event that was attended by 5,000 people over the course of three days so even if you don’t get any face time with an artist, you are guaranteed to see a lot of ink. And here’s a hint—tattooed people like to talk about tattoos. In fact, sometimes it’s hard to get them to stop.