How to design a tattoo sleeve

There are different types and designs of tattoo sleeves that you can get on your arm. Before designing a tattoo on your sleeve you should know which style or design you want, the symbol and the color of the tattoo.
Make sure that you want a full-sleeve design, a half-sleeve design, or quarter quarter-sleeve design.
After making sure, which theme and shape of tattoo you want, and for how much area of your arm. You can easily design a tattoo sleeve.

Guidance of proper tattoo sleeve:

Here is proper guidance of how to design a full tattoo sleeve on your arm.

Theme, symbol, and color:

First of all you have to make sure which theme, symbol and color you are choosing for your tattoo sleeve.

There are multiple themes that clients get on their bodies. These themes contain cultural, religious, self-belief, imagination, and others.
The choosing of teams for sleeve tattoos depends upon their thinking, mindset and priorities.

tattoo-sleeve
tattoo-sleeve

People get tattoos of different symbols. Some of them want to get a sleeve tattoo of animals ( lion, tiger, cat, wolf, and peacock).
There are others want to get sleeve tattoos of birds (pigeons, eagles, parrots, etc ).
The trees, leaves, flowers, and sleeve tattoos are very much popular among these.

The color of sleeve tattoos also depends from person to person and the darkness of a client. Some colors are prominent on light-colored people and some colors are prominent on dark-shaded people.
So for designing sleeve tattoos you should keep the above three things in your mind.

Full sleeve and half sleeve:

It depends on you whether you choose a full sleeve tattoo or a half sleeve for your body.
Some people want to show their tattoos while others hide it from others. So it depends upon you that you are choosing full sleeve or have sleeve design.
Making your mind clear about this is also one of the important factors of designing your this tattoo.

lion-sleeve-tattoo
lion-sleeve-tattoo

Sketching complete design:

Now this is the step in which you sketch your tattoo design on a rough page, to show this to your artist.
The steps help your artist understand the design and theme you want for your sleeve.

Take an appointment:

After making sure yourself about the tattoo design, theme, color and its placement you should make an appointment with your artist.
In taking appointments you will be confirmed about the date at which the artist is free. Moreover, you will know about the budget of your sleeve design.

Budget:

For the selection of your sleeve tattoo you should keep your budget in your mind.
If you have a low budget then there are some easy designs that are small in size. If your budget is high then there are some designs that you get on your body, these designs are relatively large and complex.

sleeve-tattoo
sleeve-tattoo

Taking care after getting a sleeve tattoo:

Taking care is very important. When you get your tattoo then you start taking care of it.
After getting a tattoo on your body you have to take care of it by hydrating. Hydrating your skin will protect your skin from cracking. There are different types of hydrating lotions available in the market. By applying such lotions, your tattoo and skin will look fresh.

Conclusion:

Designing your sleeve tattoo is good before getting a tattoo on your arm. This is important to know, which design, color, theme, and symbol you want on your arm. The ideas of these things are different from person to person.
Along with this, you make sure about the placement of sleeve tattoos on your arm. Choose the area where you want to get a tattoo.

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Written by:  JD khan

Edited By:    Mike Jordan

Sources : JD Tattoo Studio team

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