Tattoo Artist Jake Meeks on Narrowing the Tattoo Client's Focus for their Ideas

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“The first thing that I ask is: If you could only have one of these things in this tattoo, what would it be?”
-Jake Meeks
"Cornucopia Tattoos" and "Memorial Tattoos" are both design concepts that you want to avoid. If a client comes to you with twelve images or pieces of reference material, and they start describing a complex design with many different elements; “and it’s got gears and light bulbs and a beehive and a t-rex smoking a salmon and…..”, it is likely best to steer them in another direction. These types of tattoos are often disasterous projects that end up being regretted by all parties involved.
Right from the start, you want to get them thinking more about what their tattoo is supposed to SYMBOLIZE for them instead of worrying so much about how it will APPEAR to other people. A great way to do this is by asking a simple question: “If you could only have one element in this tattoo, what would it be?” By doing this, you're not getting rid of all their ideas at once--you're helping them focus on identifying the most important aspects of the design, or "Finding the Star of the Composition."
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