Tattoo Artists Shared the Tattoos They Love Doing the Most
Tattoos are a commitment for the people getting them—they'll be with you for life—but they're also a labor of love, not to mention time and energy, for the artists working on them. Following on from a video in which artists vented about the designs they're sick and tired of seeing everywhere, the Inked channel asked tattooists to discuss some of their favorite styles of body art, specifically asking: If you could only do one type of tattoo for the rest of your career, what would it be?
"It's kind of broad, but I love nature tattoos, anything that has to do with nature, portraits of animals," says Charles Arizmendy. "I love doing photorealism but with my own edge to it, composition-wise, dynamic, so nature is probably the field I'd want to stay in."
Nick Matic, meanwhile, loves the Chicano, Latin-American style of artwork that combines female faces with Mexican imagery. "I love doing that stuff, I would do that stuff all day every day if I could. It's actually what attracted me to tattooing... Seeing something other than traditional bold-line work," he says.
"If I could do one style for the rest of my career, it would be new school," says Kevin Boudreau, referring to the colorful, cartoonish art form that's primarily characterized by heavy outlines and exaggerated forms. "I already do plenty of new school stuff, that's my main go-to. I just feel like it's fun, every day is something different, it's definitely unique, eye-catching, very vibrant, never dull for ideas."
And while many tattooists have decried lions and tigers as basic and unoriginal, Megan Massacre is a fan of other feline ink. "I could definitely stare at cute little cat faces for the rest of my life," she says. Another artist, who works under the name Brightbones, prefers art of the avian variety: "I would do birds forever," she says. "I'm going to be like the bird woman of Hollywood."
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