Portrait Tattoo, Portrait Tattoos, Tattoo Portraits, Tattooed Portraits, Tattooing Portraits, Tattoos Portraitss: One of the most questionable tattoo decisions, right up there with getting someone's name tattooed on you, is getting a portrait tattoo. Yes, they can seem like a great way to acknowledge someone who inspires you. Yes, they can seem like a great way to memorialize someone you love who's no longer with us. But there's nothing that can seem quite as wrong, or ugly, as a portrait tattoo done badly.

Doing good portraiture is one of the hardest artistic challenges in drawing or painting and being able to do really good tattoo portraits is even more difficult. Not only is it a realistic art style, but a tattooist doesn't get the chance to reshade, change or fix the portrait as they are working on it. Any poor choices in shading or line work, and suddenly the portrait starts to not look like the person it's meant to represent.

Some things are easier to portray in portraits than others. Movie or cartoon characters where the image was originally drawn or designed fare much better than straight up portraits of people. Images of beloved pets also tend to come out much more accurately than images of people. If you truly wish to get a portrait tattoo, take the time and effort to seek out an artist who has made this form of tattooing their specialty and take a look at a LOT of their art before you make a decision.