Printable Stuff for your Kids

Let's get right to the first trait: The artwork needs to be fresh and at least semi-original. This is a big one, because so many galleries out there love to stuff their pages with as much artwork as humanly possible. This might sound like a good thing in theory, but the exact opposite is true. It's horrible, because the places that throw tons and tons of printable tattoo designs on their pages tend to be packed with generic junk. These sites don't really care about the quality of the tattoos they present to people, so they don't take out the cookie cutter stuff.

Next, pull up one page of their artwork. Is it all flash designs? Flash looks very pretty and people can make some amazing looking designs in this format. The truth is that flash very rarely looks anything like what you see on paper. Once you ink a flash design on your skin, it will look completely different than what you see on paper, which is not a good thing. 95% of the time, it will look drastically worse than what you imagined it would. You don't want to mess around with those types of printable tattoo designs, unless you have an artist redraw it.

Hand or computer drawn artwork is always the way to go. Real artists know how to make a design that will look the same once it's tattooed onto someone's skin. That's the type of artwork you want to pick from. If the gallery lists the artists on their site, you can grab those names and do some quick research to see where else they've submitted artwork, which is an awesome way to gather even more printable tattoo designs. You won't believe how many sensational galleries you can find this way.

Those are the steps I always take when hunting for printable tattoo designs, because there's a lot of bad artwork out there.