7 Things Not To Do If You Want To Win Tattoo Design Contests

The trend these days for those who want to be inked is to use the services of a custom design contest rather than have a design made for them on an impulse. By doing so, your custom tattoo designs can be seen by third person angles and interpretations which serve to give it an extra dimension. Besides, a tattoo design contest serves as a very good platform to display a designer’s creative skills where he can add his own ingenuity and tattoo style to a given design. Here are seven points you should avoid if you want to win a tattoo design contest. Do the maximum amount of research on the contest creator: If you know the creator of the contest well, it will help you, the tattoo designer; but if the creator is a complete stranger, you might not come up with anything worthwhile. Refrain from making negative comments about a co-tattoo artist online: Talking ill of a fellow tattoo artist online, if only to get ahead in the competition, is absolutely unethical and unprofessional. If you do indulge in such smear campaigns, you will lose not just a fan following, but also a host of possible opportunities. Don’t make false claims: As an extension of not making negative comments about your fellow artists, one should not make false claims of having created a particular celebrity’s tattoo. You never know, the contest creator might detest that particular celeb, so be diplomatic and focus on the tattoo in hand. Don’t bend over backwards to please: In other industries, you might earn brownie points doing this, but in the tattoo industry, bending over backwards to please the contest creator can end up with you creating tattoos that are not faithful to the original idea that you may have conceived. Don’t ask for extra payment: Once you win the prize, honor your part of the commitment by producing your design in stenciled form. When handing over the design, don’t ask for any extra payment, because this says a lot about your attitude to your work and also your integrity. Don’t post negative comments about your contest creator: Just because your contest creator rejected your design doesn’t mean that he deserves nasty comments from you. As in all contests, here too there are sure to be winners and losers. Just because you’ve been winning contests of late doesn’t mean that your run of luck is never going to end. If you presume this, you’ll soon lose sight of the fact that you could lose someday. To remain grounded, believe that you could lose and when you do, don’t be nasty to your contest creator. Instead, see it as a learning curve. Don’t threaten the website: The tattoo design website is a platform for tattoo design contests and is a tool for you to upload your designs or to be informed of upcoming contests. It is not responsible for the results of a competition. So, don’t threaten or slam it.