Looking for honest opinions
 

What do you think about this for a tattoo? I am thinking about getting it on my upper arm.

Here is the actual pic I sent him.

I dont know much about tattoos, but that looks pretty neat. The artist seemed to fit the characteristics of the rack very well. I like it!!!

if ur happy with it then thats all that matters..i say go for it!! enjoy life!

Need to see your and other artists work,on flesh wildlife. not a great drawing but actual work may be much better.
Small tracks i,ve had redone,still not pleased,needs to be the right"artist"!
Need the best eyes nose and ears or it will look like a bad mount of a great subject.
Tat needle gets old fast ,i,m all for economy after deer details accomplished,like scaling leaf size to deers size, or smaller and putting date and score on it. More natural look. wuss me would for economy drop acorns too as oak represented all ready. To much more than subject makes a pic "busy".
Only my opinion,to each his own. there are a few great tattoo artists out there, finding them like locating a true free range mega buck . Need to confirm research by seeing. Nice buck for your subject,good hunting for your tat!

I'm not much of a tattoo guy, but I do like your deer mount.

I think it looks pretty good. Honestly, I would make the antlers a tad bit bigger or make the head a bit skinier. It just looks a little off in the sketch. But thats just my opinion. Congratz on the deer btw.

Heres one that I drew up for myself. Ill be getting it in the next month or so. Of course it is a rough sketch and my artist will clean it up, add details, etc. It will be going on my shoulder/upper arm. Arrows going into my shoulder with barb wire hanging down throughout the deer (on my arm)

If it is a deer you harvested then it will have meaning. Go for it as long as the artist does a good job as others have said. Hope you don't shoot too many nice animals or you will be spending as much on tats as the mounts.:happy0001:

That looks pretty good. Just a few minor touch ups and I think that would really set it off. I was going to get a full deer head like that with one of my bucks, but I decided to make it a euro look.

my personal opinion is get a couple more sketches done by other artists and see which one looks the most correct. Its not that bad but there are a couple things that make it look a little funny like the nose/snout/eyes. I wouldn't hesitate to get it tatted on me but i think you could find someone who is better at wildlife tats/drawings. ask him if he has pictures of previous wildlife tats he has done. maybe the actual tattoo would look more correct but why take the chance before you know who else is out there.

Valuable thoughts and advices. I read your topic with great interest.

You did ask for honest opinions.
I think it looks like a Koala bears face. I'm not laughing, I really think it does if you look at a koala bear picture and a deer picture. I have a tatoo and so does my wife and many friends. I have seen good ones and bad ones. Mottz has a sharp tatoo there and it looks really good. I would find an artist that can show you their work with copying a photograph of a person. I think you will then find a person that can give you what you really want. The tatoo idea and things going along with it are good but the deers face is really missing some features. Those features and details will set it apart from a tatoo that you look at going eh, hmm, yeah i like it from Now that is what i'm talking about! How awesome is this! Just my opinion.
Only thing that matters is what you think but that being said if you didn't care what people think of your tatoo when they see it then you wouldn't have asked our opinions.

Hmmmm.....
 

I believe the rack hanging on your wall is a bit bigger than the drawing, thats my honest opinion. The drawing needs to be taller.

Beautiful deer and drawing!

im gonna have my daughter draw that same pic and show you another artists drawing, ill post it here when shes done, not that its not a good drawing it is. but it will give you another artists perspective. I dont think its done well enough for a tatoo though. the artist is pretty good but just has to keep drawing. and he or she will keep improving:cool2:

That would be awesome! Thanks!

Really cool tattoo and great idea of getting a deer tattooed that you actually shot. That way it has some meaning and it's not just any deer.

Save your skin for a relative or friend. You have the mount ........enjoy it.
However..do what makes you happy.....sometimes that is farther between then downed deers.

To each their own....but ask yourself. Is this deer that important that you want it on you for the rest of our life?? I have several tattoos. Some I like, others I could care less about. Unless there was something very significant about the particular hunt with this deer, I would suggest waiting. My guess is you will one day shoot a bigger deer and you'll look back and say "why did I get this little deer tattooed on me"

Who knows, life happens and deer hunting may take a back seat o wife, kids, family, etc and no longer have the importance it does now.

Again, coming from someone with several tattoos, here is my advice. DO NOT get your tat done by the artist that drew that picture. The drawing does not look realistic, and is very amateurish. You will not be happy with it. An artists drawing should look almost exactly like the final product. The artist of that drawing may be good at certain things, but is to good at portraits and realistic tattoo. That's my honest opinion. I'd be proud of myself ifi drew that picture, but I'm not a tattoo artist....