Great Book of Tattoo Designs: More than 500 Body Art Designs

Great Book of Tattoo Designs: More than 500 Body Art Designs

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Editorial Reviews

Presenting appealing and high-quality designs, this collection of tattoo artwork includes an extensive breadth of styles—including fantasy, Celtic, pagan, gothic, sacred, oriental, and mythical. Whether used individually, in combination, or as inspiration for original designs, this resource provides designs ideal for personal expression. From dancing dragons and Aztec Indians to fairies and flowers, this guidebook is a perfect companion for anyone with an interest in tattoos.

Customer Reviews

Tattoo Designs for leather crafting

Reviewed by Mark C. Hall, 2010-02-26

I acquired this book with the intent of getting leather crafting ideas for tooling. It has certainly meet that need. As tattoo as very two dimensional in application, it is difficult for this individual to visualize the impact of a 3-D relief. However, the designs offered vary significantly from traditional leather carving patterns. This will provide for some uniquely tooled projects.

Terrible tattoo designs from a woodcarver!

Reviewed by Tattoo Artist, 2009-12-18

It is painfully obvious that Ms. Irish is not a tattoo artist. In fact, she is a wood carver, and has written many books about that. Well, I am here to tell you that woodcarving designs do NOT make for good tattoo designs. I have been a tattoo artist for ten years, and I can say this book contains some of the worst art I have seen in quite a while. The line drawings are poorly executed, with very thick lines, which look suspiciously like 14th century woodcuts. I wonder why.

The designs depicted in this book are poorly drawn and unrealistically shaded. If you want realism in your tattoo design, then this is the worst place to look.

I have no idea how this book actually found a publisher.

A nice book, but....

Reviewed by quicksilverdragon, 2008-10-06

I ordered this book thinking it would have tons of different tattoo ideas. While it does, it has a lot of the same thing. Like 40 pages of the "Green Man." I dont see many tattoos of the green man, and to have 40 pages of it...also they have lighthouses?...well, draw your own conclusions. The dragons are really cool, but so many of the wildlife ones are for painting, not really tattoo quality. And the symbols section leaves a lot to be desired. Lots of crosses, which is fine, but nothing for modern symbols.And lastly the floral section. Only one rose, which i really like roses, so i thought that kinda sucked. A nice book overall, but if you are looking for a lot of variaty, look someplace else.

Great stuff!!

Reviewed by Matt Brinkley, 2008-09-06

I have some ink on me and am planning to have my back done. This book is full of some of the best designs I have seen!
It has a Celtic section that has some of the best designs. It also has a section of some good ole' fashioned classic designs as well.
I recommend this book for the sheer art value alone!

What a waste.

Reviewed by MJ, 2008-02-16

I personally think this is a waste. I bought this from a Books-A-Million for about nine bucks. It was on sale and it was in plastic packaging,
I thought it would be worth it by looking at the size.
Most of the concepts, which are nothing special, look like they'd be in a child's colouring book. It was a huge let down as far as a concept book goes. The designs look the same with a few different details. It's not worth wasting your money on.