Looking for pictures of tattoos isn't as much fun as it once was. Many of you are struggling mightily to find something other than a big collection of awful, generic designs and blurry artwork. I hated seeing this cookie cutter junk, too, which his why I'm giving you the inside scoop on quickly and efficiently locating the amazing galleries that have bundles of crisp high quality pictures of tattoos.
This will help you out so much when choosing artwork for yourself. Seeing the best artwork possible helps give you great ideas and it gets your thoughts racing in a good direction. If you end up seeing nothing but generic pictures of tattoos, there's a strong chance that you'll settle on a generic tat, which is never a good idea. 99% of people who settle on a cookie cutter design end up regretting it within a month or two. It's shame, because tons of people are stuck with tats that they absolutely hate right now.
So, how do you avoid that terrible artwork? It's simple. Just avoid search engines. Just stay away from them and never rely on their lists to show you where the best artwork galleries are. They never, ever show up in their lists these days. That's the main reason why millions of us get caught up in a whirlwind of awful artwork, because 90% of us use engines to search for tattoo websites. Now for my final and most important tip: Big forums solve all of this for you. The bigger the forum, the more topics about tattoo artwork you can snatch from their archives, which is the key to uncovering great pictures of tattoos.
It's your golden opportunity to find all of the amazing galleries you've been sorely missing out on. Just step into a few of the fairly big topics and have a bit of fun skimming them. The posts are filled with names and links to the fantastic artwork sites that others have luckily found. It gives you a bullet proof way to pull up huge collections of crystal clear pictures of tattoos. Even better, you are doing this while staying away from that generic stuff out there.
I wish everyone knew how to find sensational pictures of tattoos, but many people will end up staring at generic art every day.
Here are the 3 largest, most original websites to find thousands of great Pictures of Tattoos.
Adam Woodham is the author of this article and runs the resource site Quality Tattoo Art, which features the 3 top websites, with the absolute largest gallery of star tattoos you will ever see.
Lina Bertucci 
Tattoo Artist
You cannot but be impressed by Japanese tattoos. The intricate detail and stunning colours set Japanese tattoos apart, placing them in a league of their own. They are thought of, by many, to be the pinnacle of tattoo art.
Japanese tattoos are complicated and very detailed. Often they extend over large portions of the body, for example the entire back of the wearer. Getting a Japanese tattoo is long and often painful process, but one that is worth the effort for the rich clarity and detail of the scenes. The tattoos are truly works of art, not some horrid piece of ink slapped on in a drunken haze on holiday as are too many tattoos these days.
The history of Japanese tattoos as an artform is interesting. In the early 1600s, tattoos were worn proudly by Japanese people. The tattoos would be shown off and were much admired. A stark contrast to today where very often, tattoos are regarded by large portions of society as something to cover up and hide, especially in corporate contexts. There is one "corporation" though, that still encourages tattoos; the Yakuza.
The Yakuza are basically the Japanese mafia. A strictly organised criminal society, that has spread its influence throughout Japanese society - politics, media, you name it, the Yakuza will have infiltrated it. And with them, the Yakuza have brought their tattoos more and more into the mainstream.
Japanese Yakuza tattoos, also called irezume are often still hand-poked - in other words, they are created without the aid of electric tattoo needles, making the actual tattoos more expensive and more painful to have done, not to mention slower - in fact some of the larger more intricate tattoos have been known to take years to complete.
