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Manuel Laranjo
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Is Tattooing An Art?
by drawing_blog , November 5, 2009—12:00 AM
Is tattooing an art? I might face a lot of tension with that question. But the answer that I've concluded is that in some cases it definitely is and in others I don't think it is. I, myself, have a few tattoos and in the years since I'd gotten them, I went through laser treatments to get them removed. The reason being is that I had gotten them for the wrong reasons, which, I believe, is why most people decide to ink themselves in the first place. And I'll get to that a little later.
One thing I've regretted since the day I started "sleeving" myself_besides the regret of doing just that_is that I hadn't thought of designing my own tattoo. You'd think that since I consider myself somewhat of an artist that I'd definitely draw up my own conception or illustration for my tattoo…
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