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LA Ink: Season 2 Episode 4

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The first tattoo of this episode is a crane on a girl’s ribcage. As Kat’s applying the stencil some dude Corey’s tattooing is ogling her and making rude comments. If this ever happened to me when I was getting tattooed, I would never come back. If I were the artist working on a client who behaved in such a way I’d tell them to knock it off or they’ll have an unfinished tattoo. A woman getting tattooed is not a piece of meat. There’s a reason artists need private stations. She shouldn’t have been parading this poor girl around the shop half shirtless. Overall the tattoo turns out pretty good, Kat seems skilled at wildlife and should perhaps try her hand at that in lieu of traditional portraiture.

Later Corey does a portrait of a little girl on her father. The father brought in a great reference photo, which could’ve used a little Photoshopping to bump up the contrast. Corey draws up a decent composition, but executes it poorly. The sharper, dark lettering takes dominance over the portrait, which is so faint it recedes into the background. Instead of drawing what he sees, he tries to draw what he knows making her face look fudged and cartoonish. The little girl has a beautiful jawline and smile, which he bungles trying to add in some faux-perspective, giving her a double-chin.

Hannah does the smallest tattoo I’ve seen yet, a diamond on a guy’s back who wants a marking identical to his dog. I can assure you, in real life Hannah wouldn’t be wasting her time on a tattoo this tiny. The guy’s dog is adorable, but dogs do not belong in a tattoo shop. This is not sanitary, and would not fly past any health inspection official. The dog is dangerously close to a station where someone is tattooing. To make matters worse, Kat’s creepy hairless cat is still lurking about the shop, presumably tracking kitty litter everywhere. At least it’s not shedding all over people’s stations, but animals can carry disease. You wouldn’t let them in a hospital or your dentist’s office so they certainly shouldn’t be in your tattoo shop.

Some controversy surrounded this episode, stemming from Pixie’s concerns about getting tattooed on her hands, neck or chest. She didn’t say anything defamatory about tattooing, and Hannah rightly pointed out while these places aren’t a big deal for a tattooer, they aren’t totally accepted by mainstream America yet either. Tattooing might have a strong hold in popular culture right now, but it still has a long way to go. Most of Middle America would rather appropriate tattoo culture with an old school sparrow tshirt and those fake tattoo sleeves than get any real art. So in short, I’m not really sure what people were whining about.

The last tattoo of the episode is a Roy Orbison portrait on Kat’s boyfriend. It’s definitely one of her better portraits, but she too suffers the “tattoo what’s not there” disease. She fakes several shadows, including one of his sunglasses on his face. When will these people learn, when you fake things that aren’t in the photograph, it looks like a cartoon I think Corey and Kat need to take Illustration 101 again.


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