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With a lot of these I feel like the medium/media is wrong for the type of art. like design wise, what value does the art add by being a tattoo over a painting or a drawing? a good artist factors the media/medium carefully and gets the most out of it imo - these high art folks are squandering the concept by turning it into a bad looking tattoo
right. like if I saw these as a sticker or a poster on the wall I’d probably think it’s sick but as a tattoo it’s just weird
Because they realized they can make TOOOONS of money as a tattoo vs struggling in their own competetive market
What ? 😂the medium ?
It’s a F ING TATTOO ON SKIN
They are perfect
Perfect 💩 for the 💩 generation
I feel like these should be drawings made into stickers or pins.
I feel like this is low key cruel to do on people. I feel like for the most part Only people who are next level great at denial coping aren’t gonna wishing they never got chicken scratch scratch/blotches on themselves in 3-12 years time
Exactly. This.
LMAO the artist who said her stuff is art nouveau needs a reality check. I have a minor in art history and not a single aspect of those designs are even remotely related to art nouveau. She's straight up just misusing art movements to sound fancy LMAO
Seriously... I don't know what that naïve mess was, but I know it's NOT Art Nouveau. 😂 Mucha is rolling in his grave.
Cmon, you’re being too cynical, circle + woman = “modern art nuveau” /s
I see some shitty Egon Schiele-esque vibes in there. Otherwise, yeah.
Same. I agree. Nothing at all like Art Nouveau. It's a bit like those people who badly throw in a French word into the conversation but they clearly don't know what it means or how it should be pronounced. They're just saying it because they think it makes them sound sophisticated... but in reality it just makes them sound stupid. And it's pretentious.
@@NorthPoleRevolution. I don't even see that!
The Korean Irezumi artist was by far the best. Some of that stuff was legitimately good art and tattoo.
I have a good portion of my forearm done by Hongak, he’s an excellent + experienced artist with a totally unique style plus he’s mentored other tattooers I’ve met (Low and Ovil) and they are awesome too! He guested at a shop while I was working there and the other artists couldn’t enough of it haha. Total master of flow
True, if the style is not someones cup of tea ok that's fair, but at least their tattoos will hold up and work as tattoos. I personally do like the style, even though I do not want one of their pieces for myself, but I get the appeal. Other than the rest of the stuff shown.
The problem with these people is that they try to pass of shit technique as a style.
And they try to scam people that way instead of just getting better
😂Yes! And they use words they don't know the meaning of. 👍🏽
Some people need to know when to put art on their body and when to buy a print from an artist instead
Straight up, never understood the appeal of wanting a watercolor or pencil sketch as a tattoo instead of a tattoo as a tattoo but to each their own
Those “smudge” tattoos if I saw anyone with them I would immediately assume they are actually dirty or drew on themselves with marker
Painful for no reason, ugly for lots of reasons is a great way to describe a bad tattoo 😂
Am I the only one that likes some of these? But I tend to like Surrealism and weird shit so…
No lol your not the only one
I like you, you keep it real real. Art Nouveau is indeed an art wave formed in the early 1900's, but it's def not the shitty mermaid pentagram tattoo we see there :)
what artists need to understand is that tattooing is done on a living canvas, the skin changes the ink under the skin changes. Other than paint on paper tattoos do not stay the same, the colour fades and expands. Traditional paintings stay the same once they dry, tattoos don't work that way. Artists (usually there are exceptions) want their work to stay the way they are when they are finished, but for a tattoo to stay the way you want it to be, you need the knowledge of how tattoos age and it seems like most of these don't.
Personally i do like some "ugly" art, so i can see some appeal in these styles
Yeah 👍 Greek tragedy
🎭
Aka
Wayne Ka
You shouldn't ask that architect question to architects 😂
As an architect I got scared and thought he was gonna call us out 🤣. But at the end I was like “Nahh bruh!! I’ll sacrifice safety for beauty any time and then pass that sh!t down to the civil engineer to figure out how to make it stand” (sarcasm)
Not sure if you're joking but Art Nouveau is a pretty popular decorative style from the 1890s to 1930s that works really well in tattoos. A lot of American Trad tattoos have some Art Nouveau flourishes.
Ok but we can admit whatever the hell they described as art noveau only fit in the barest sense and was also just bad
@@AngelicReaper25 Yes. However the fact that the youtube tattoo critic guy doesn't recognize the names of historic art styles, it is a bit cringe. I have zero artistic experience or education and I even I know Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Expressionism, Impressionism, Surrealism, Realism, Baroque, etc.
😂😂calm down Copernicus
(Wayne Kerr)
ih1.redbubble.net/image.5261615538.6215/bg,f8f8f8-flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg dude really went like this, bruh really. Next thing you gonna start talking about Mucha and the Slav Epic, stfu
@@AngelicReaper25 Oh absolutely, the tattoo was bad and good tattoos don't need a paragraph of text to explain them.
Those circles and dots on the back look like the person just got out of the dermatologist and those were all the moles circled to check for cancer... and the other reddish weird shaped one look like a skin graft scar
by the end of the video it sounds like the majority of the artists used in this have some weird ego trip where they get off putting their shit looking fantasy on someone else for the rest of that persons life and get a power trip from it
Man, I always get so excited when I see a new Kirk Fagan video!!!
Just wanted to say that I love your channel. Hopefully your channel keeps growing.
Abstract pieces have appeal because they make you look and think about the piece for a long time. I don’t think anyone wants someone to have to stare and think about what their tattoo is supposed to be
You crack me up! I totally agree with you. Every time you read a description, I was rolling my eyes. I like art. I appreciate art. Some people don't understand how pretentious they sound, though.
That one leg sleeve with the eyeballs was a really dope piece in my opinion
It’s funny you brought up architecture because there’s a saying in construction, "an architect’s dream is an engineer’s nightmare" can’t help but feel the parallel in tattooing lol
Nah some of these are pretty fire
Its the tattoo old head vs new head
@Dionysus999 haha true but it's nice to see something new in the industry , sometimes even the floppy lines give character to a tatoo
People that say
🔥 fire
Literally
Feels
Low key
Hits me
Wayne Kerrs 🎉extreme
@@Dionysus999ummmm no dh it’s 💩 vs reality
Nah a lot of these are 💩 😂
I think Hyo's art was kind of cool, def needs a BUNCH of work but I could see it getting really good in the future. Agree though "art" should not be an excuse to give people bad tattoos.
Some of it looks pretty good in the photos, but you can tell most of them are going to age terribly. I’d imagine they’re never posting healed tattoos older than a year. Would love to see some to confirm if I’m right
Hey Kirk I just found your channel it's awesome!!! Alot of these tattoos don't look finished its almost like they put the line work in and ran out of shader needles anyway... traditional/ Neo traditional is my personal preference just solid lines and super cool looking
Ok, you don’t like or understand abstraction, surrealism, etc. Fine. But even so, the actual quality and technique of the work should be judged on its own merits. Just because it may not be immediately obvious to you what it is picturing, does not make it bad. This is, of course, excluding tattoos, that were originally intended to actually picture a recognizable object and were poorly drawn to the point that it is abstract like the first “artist”.
5:41 Work like this I feel is well done, just abstract with a lot of intention behind it.
Living in LA and being subjected to the IG algorithm I see so many bad tattoos like the first artist. The goofy cartoonish but not even aesthetically pleasing style exists because those people want tattoos but they hate traditional tattoos and traditional tattooers.
Same in Sydney
They are know as Wayne Kerrs
I agree. If they see that that someone tattooed a celebrity with a certain tattoo style then then will go to that artist as well. Especially if they really like that celebrity or have the same esthetic as them.
Ye and they hate them for a reason lol. I think ignorant tattoos are just a trend and its gonna pass by. But traditional artist always gotta critique everyone else but they shove their 14rl needle into u with 11voltage dragging that hand so fkn slow it scars the tissue. I bet 70% of traditional tattoos that are made by people that critique every tattoo style they see are healed terribly. I’ve seen too many “raised” tattoos its sad
“Artsy fartsy shit tattoos”. Bruh he should focus more on improving instead of talking shit about others work for a video
@@gapi122 sure buddy
You should do a series in which each episode is dedicated to one of your favourite artists and why you like them
I feel like you just don't like surrealist or abstract styles. Which is fine it's not for everyone. But that doesn't make these all bad. Now in terms of bad technique I agree, you should be looking to make them look as good as they can for as long as possible, and some of these you can tell weren't done with that intention. But artists can still achieve these more surreal or abstract effects whilst doing aiming to make it a "technically" good tattoo. Not everything needs to be a traditional style tattoo though.
I just recently discovered your channel, and I’d like for you to cover Ephemeral Remy. He’s who gave me the confidence to get my blackout.
He’s gone from a full suit, to a full blackout, to another full suit on top. It looks incredible, and I’d like to see an artist opinion on it.
i dont know ANYTHING about tattoos, my only tattoo is the worlds worst tattoo, misspelled even..., but boy, do I love listening to someone talk shit for 20 minutes straight. keep doing what you do.
If imitating skin cancer is "maximising the beauty of nature", then the artist is spot on!
“Maximize the beauty of nature by making it look like you have ring worm and shingles. Work done by my 2 year old with a crayon and their non-dominant hand then I tattoo you with unsanitary equipment. $8,000.”
I really liked the comparison u did with tattooing/architecture
i like the neo tribal and cyber sigil tats. they are cool and i draw alot of neo tribal and cyber sigil to print and put onto clothes.
I honestly like some of these designs you didn't like, but mostly I agree with what you've said in the video 🙈 I'm glad the people who got the tattoos are prolly happy with them and that's all that matters imho ✨
Edit: Tattoo architecture tattoo/s is absolutely gorgeous! The first one is genuinely among the most beautiful tattoos I've ever seen - right up my alley, haha!
I hate artsy farty, wether as a tatoo or exhibition. In a London museum, some critics raved at some plastic boots and mud on a bench. Later they found out it was the gardener that had left is wellies by the bench.
An "artist" w/ no respect for the medium, for the artform as a DISCIPLINE, or for fundamental virtues like craftsmanship, is called a "hack".
I love how they talk about their “art” yet not one of them mentions how long they’re be been tattooing for. My guess, judging by these examples, is that they probably haven’t even been doing it for a year. The quality of the actual tattoos is garbage. It literally looks like an 8-year old did it.
I’d ask all these arrogant artists that think it’ll be fun to do their next project in tattoo, if they’ve ever discarded a canvas when they weren’t happy with the direction of the piece
dude your gonna hit that 10000 mark soon love the vids
Unpopular opinion maybe: I think blacking out is not far off from this stuff.
14:50 - Kirk goes thru the 7 stages of grief in reverse 😂
Your commentary is on point I enjoy watching your videos
Love all the vids it’s so good 😂😂😂😂
Those tattoos by Hyo remind me of like 80s fantasy metal tattoos (i.e. a woman carrying a spear riding a Pegasus towards a distant castle with metallic blue writing under her haha). I knew an artist who could do it, he had some on him from years back and it could stay-the white would fade, but it was negative space beneath and it could be touched up. Some of Hyo’s look super light tho, you’re right, but some look darker imo?
Some of them look like when you put on one of those fake tattoos but it was all crumpled and part of it didn’t transfer so you try ro apply it again but it doesn’t work out.
I know it’s a joke, but often times the engineers on a project have to stop the architect from designing a building that definitely will crumple and kill everybody. It’s usually a collaborative effort that brings the architects design ideas into the real world
I like how he called Pepe over like a hispanic mother who is testing their child 😂
Squidbillies was the most important artistic statement of all time, so I’ll allow these.
The aspiring surgeon cracks me up :) I'm an aspiring nurse and I thought my EKG tattoo was bad?? Like. I knew nothing about healthcare when I got mine (it was a memorial), but it's wayyyyyyyy closer than that.
if you need to make up a story to everytattoo you do you should be a poet instead
Where is his tattoo shop?
Gatekeeping is important.
Look at wbat happened to Star Wars.
Be sure ppl are getting in for the right reasons.
18:25 My only complaint about this specific tattoo is that it may look really weird amongst other tattoos on the body, especially if they also aren't architecture based. Other than that, I really like it.
The architect creates art and the engineer makes it not crumble onto people. Got the point though
Wayne ?
Wayne Kerr?
Not true at all, as an architect
There’s art in thinking the structure as well as there is structural thought into designing
As much as I have a soft spot for modern art, it is simultaneously one of the most hair-pulling pretentious things I know of
There are a million mediocre artists who go off the deep end with art, assigning way too much meaning to whatever weird experiment they are doing. Some of them have interesting or cool ideas. And I love that humans love to explore the edges of what it means to interact with existence. However, throwing easily accessed tattoo machines into the mix sounds like a recipe for disaster
Someone take these people’s machines away until they can prove they understand how to operate it safely
That Korean one was amazing. I'd genuinely get that.
There is a discipline in art that should lend itself to mastery of technique that should make some artists good tattoo artists. You can see it in that last artist who has clearly worked on the technique of good line work and clarity and is developing a sense of what the art they are creating will be once it is healed and aged. So many of these are just shock value or poor understanding of what will last.
the chrome font could have bin a ok tat with a nice 10/5 line on it
Damn, came at the homie Devon 🙃🙃🙃, I have 2 pieces of pieces from him but hey, to each their own.
New sub to the channel, diggin the content and the perspective. 🤙🤙🤙
The only thing missing from those first few is the blue canvas background of a 3-ring binder.
I have a healed hyodomachine tatttoo that is 2 years old and it looks very good actually
As long as fine art existed, artists have had strong opinions on other artists and criticized them.
When Modern art became popular and main stream, the concept of the art became more important than the craftsmanship and the sales pitch was all that mattered.
This is hated by many artists, but a few people control the narrative around "art" and selling a narrative is easier that producing quality confirmation Bayes goes a long way.
I did stay till the end but I fell asleep at the beginning so I woke up to "this looks like sh*t". 😂
Do a video on ignorant tattoos, i like ignorant tattoos but i think youll hate it lol
Most of that stuff: let’s discuss the term ‘graphic dyslexian’. A lot of customers are that way, obviously, but it always takes two to Tango. Just sayin’… 🤘😅 Art Noo-woh, yeah, right. Have that crap on paper or canvas, hang it on the wall, throw it in the bin later.
Look at Greg Christian, Josh Adams, old Johnathan Shaw, and more. There are people who do more “artistic” tattooing while still making super super solid tattoos. The two aren’t mutually exclusive
Sweet vid man
I hate to say it, but i kinda like some of the scar ones. None of them will hold up for very long, but hey, i think it's kinda dope
All I can think is what a waste of good space! I'm with you, Kirk. SMH
I personally love the third one especially in contrast to the other tattoos
I think it comes down to execution And people trying to pass of inexperience as their technique. A difference In making art and a tattoo isn’t that ones not art but tattoos are art that last longer then trend art.
Great video those where some bad, bad tattoos
These people are just paying it forward for the tattooers that will cover those up in a few years
Some of these look like they're from Aqua Teen Hunger Force
The architect metaphor was 🤌🤌🤌.
The dirt ones i have to admit would look amazing as a painting, and someone of them did look cool. However, you can see how horribly they're done, and it looks like they just drug a needle covered in ink down their skin, scribbled over a raw area with black marker, and then called it a day. If it was executed better it could be cool. But its executed SO poorly it won't work.
"I don't care how you sell it. . .it's just dumb." couldn't have said it better. If I could do it, it's not art. And I paint.
that blue one was awesome
Some of these are so painful to look at, there should be a disclaimer in the beginning 😂.
haha i agree with you on this one! but some of these are kinda fire, even tho super stupid and would never get😂traditional all the way
Why are they all so big and bold? If an 'artist' is gonna create crap, the least they could do is make it easy to cover or zap down the line.
People can have opinions about what others put on their bodies (though like Kirk himself has said, what _you_ think about _your own_ tattoo is what matters), but I don't think people saying "you're hurting the _____ industry/community by existing" is productive. It's just people rage-baiting themselves and invalidating others by saying they don't represent the wider group. You don't have to like alternative tattoos, but I think it's unproductive to try to denounce them as being harmful to tattooing. What about the far greater number of people who do shit "regular" tattoos? Every industry is a spectrum. Some people don't like representational tattoos (i.e. tattoos that look like a picture of a specific thing). So should they just never get tattoos? They're adults, they can make a decision to get a tattoo that they like, even if others hate it. That's tattooing. You get on your body what _you_ want. And can an artist never give tattoos if they don't like doing representational tattoos with typical structural line work? No, they can still do tattoos. They could just inform clients that their style doesn't look as similar with time as more structured tattoos. But let's be honest, there are far more people attempting to do "typical" tattoos and doing a shitty job at it without warning their clients than people doing "artsy" tattoos in an intentionally alternative way that their clients actually want. Not my style; I just respect people's choice to get wild existential spider blobs and structureless "mold" tattoos. That's literally completely valid. Always surprises me how judgy some people in tattooing are about tattoos. Seems counterintuitive to me. I definitely agree with some of the valid criticisms here, but a lot of the judgements were about taste
Artist...creative...studied at...all synonyms for failure
Graffiti uses colorful paint to cover walls. Sherman Williams uses paint to cover walls . One looks great in my family room …..
I find it funny that you’re gatekeeping what a “good” tattoo is, a lot of sailor jerry and ed Hardy’s designs were horrible, let’s not act like the forerunners of tattooing were design geniuses. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of these were bad, some of them were just different styles than the generic traditional art and that’s fine, doesn’t make it bad
I don’t think he’s gate keeping at all. Everything he had strong criticisms of were aesthetically ugly. 99/100 people who were shown many of those tattoos would agree. The ones that were technically good he gave praise to. I think the approach he has in sticking with more timeless styles is important in a time where so many people are getting trendy nonsense that they’re going to regret.
@@newyorkvisionary he seems a bit gatekeepey to me. A lot of them are bad but a lot of them he did just shit on because they are not his style and he doesn't understand their appeal to other people. I personally don't like older traditional tattos so much, doesn't mean i call them garbage just because i personally don't find them appealing to me.
@@ohnothepossumIf it’s gatekeeping to call out so called artists that sniff their own farts while they produce some of the most objectively terrible designs in an effort to be edgy than I say gate keep away. I’m here for his annoyed old man attitude. It’s funny 😂
Feel like you missed his point, they're creating art and then tattooing it onto people without any understanding of the limitations of tattooing. Someone could make a beautiful landscape in watercolour on a canvas but to tattoo the same thing on skin it would heal and age really badly. You have to know what's possible with tattoos first and create the art with those limitations in mind
@@freddieperkins6953 I get what you guys are saying but there’s no limitation to what can and can’t be tattooed, if someone wants some water color BS or whatever let them do it. It looks cool to them that’s all that matters. I get tired of all these tattoo purists trying to tell people what does and doesn’t look good as a tattoo
You are saying just what you like and you are saying sth is bad when you dont understand that
You couldn't pay me to get this crap tattooed on me. Respect to those that like what they like, I just can't get into it in tattoo form.
i kinda fw the strange anime style guy, the one describing her work as "art noveau" though made me crack up.. what about that has anything to do with art noveau 💀
There are some incredibly talented tattoo artists. They can draw these incredible images and tattoo them. Tattoo them WELL. None are in this video though.
Half of this garbage where getting out done by my kids by the age of 2
“nouveau” is a French word basically meaning “new.” It’s pronounced “new-voe” long “o” on the end.
lol he was so mad😂😂😂 but they’ll definitely be getting coverups.
I appreciate your architecture analogy, but part of art is pushing limits. While these aren't my taste, they are pushing limits and taking a shot at redefining what is a "good" tattoo. Art is subjective, so maybe the fade out and fall out etc. is part of the living art piece as it goes through the world. It's super cerebral and definitely heads into pretention but that's where this goes.
I completely agree. Pushing the limits is completely what it’s all about-it’s like fucking skaters hating on scooters 🛴 funniest shit. If everyone keeps tattooing the same shit forever and gatekeeping the “right way to tattoo” it creates an echo chamber, mostly certain demos continue on these old businesses 😅 (I used to apprentice and it was a lot of good ol’ boys club)
Abstraction is also something not really seen in tattooing so I think it’s cool that some artists are trying to do that. I don’t think he’s talking about it in good faith or even really trying to understand it.
I agree about pushing the limits, but most of these aren’t doing that.
i kinad fucking love the fisrts one like if the person wants it its not tht deep like it lokks so funky
4:46 Kid, exactly hahah.
It's art, fun to praise and talk shit about.
13:51 this reaction is killing me!!!!
9:42 "... they resemble crystal ACCESSORIES (what??)and water droplets"... Er, not to me! They resemble nothing in particular to me and "accessories" could be absolutely anything. Still, they are not the worst tatts I've ever seen but the description is dumb as fu*k. 😶
Ill take any of these over an anime tattoo
I don’t see anything wrong with it art is subjective right I mean honestly don’t you do like that super traditional tattoo type art I personally find that boring but that’s just me. I know a lot of people like it.