Question about line work on tattoo

[marfil98]

Hey everyone, so I got a moth tattoo recently, done in 2 sessions. The first was the outline and some shading, the second was color. It's healing up nicely but I've got a question about the line work on it. The first time around most of the lines came out fine, particularly the wings, but when my artist got to the jawbones/body of the moth some of the lines were a little shaky. So when I went back in for color he fixed them, but now they're thicker than the rest of the lines and still a bit shaky. It really doesn't bother me much, it's just that I spend so much time looking at them I can't help but notice. Any advice on what to do? Leave it alone, or have him try to even everything out? On a side note, and this may sound weird but whereas before little imperfections like this used to bother me I've actually started to like them. It gives the tattoo a kind of "crudeness" for lack of a better word, that I like. Maybe I'm just going crazy  And lastly how does it look overall? Any advice on little tweaks that would improve it? I've been wanting to add more around it but I can't seem to figure out what. Sorry for the long post. Thanks everyone.

 

Edited January 3, 2017 by marfil98

[viezure]

Leave it as is, it looks fine, don't overanalyse it :)

Also, and maybe i'm mistaking you, but haven't you got all of your tattoos done last year?

[suburbanxcore]

I think it looks fine and wouldn't worry about it at all.

As I said in the other thread when you initially asked, I woulda loved to see you go bigger with it, but it's a rock solid start to a chest/front.

[marfil98]

31 minutes ago, suburbanxcore said:

I think it looks fine and wouldn't worry about it at all.

As I said in the other thread when you initially asked, I woulda loved to see you go bigger with it, but it's a rock solid start to a chest/front.

Thanks! I'm planning to add more stuff around it, I just want to plan it out so everything "fits" nicely. Kind of like puzzle pieces.

Edited January 3, 2017 by marfil98

[Baboom]

Its cool man. I wouldn't over think it. Its art not science. Perfection takes the "character" out of it.

[Synesthesia]

I wouldn't have even noticed if you wouldn't have pointed it out, especially now that color's been added. Good solid tattoo.

[Dan]

IMO it looks cool,a real moth is not perfectly symmetrical  anyway.

[marfil98]

Thanks for the responses everyone. I'm happy with it and don't plan on making any changes to it. That being said, when I went in on friday, my artist did say there were a few things he wanted to touch up (some shading that all but disappeared during healing and a few other minor things he noticed) so I'll be going back to the shop on monday for that.

Edited January 15, 2017 by marfil98