William Burgess Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 This seems to be a pet peeve amongst many tattooers...god damned cherry creek. I don't get it. Not terribly interested in the style myself, but I think they are well designed drawings. Is it the fact that there are sooooo many poor renderings of the stuff? In the nineties that was the selling ploy of many substandard tattooers...wallpaper the place with cherry creek and hope the customers don't notice how shitty they came out. On the other hand, a well applied tattoo that looks just as clean and solid as the picture...is this really a bad thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briankelly Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 i think cherry creek is awesome. people don't know it so well in europe. i even tattooed a flying pig from the flash on my wrist and all girls think it is the cutest tattoo ever. Jack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougetheeyes Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Saddle Creek?!? dirbab and jacobyoung 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobyoung Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 In the shop I work at it just seems that everyone has done those tattoos so many times in the past that they avoid it. Typically you can talk the customer into a cooler version of what they are getting anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldog Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Had to google cherry creek but it reminds of the place I'm going to get my laser at, the walls are full of similar flash which is all colour coded and priced so, very 90's and I actually think it's quite cool and reminds me of getting my first tattoos. Will people be getting "cherry creek" flash because its cool in 50years time like milton zeis flash is today? Graeme 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAllen Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Ego of the "artist" is the best explanation. Really the only stuff I'm not too fond of are the roses. Most of it isn't stuff I'd get tattooed but I'll put it on people if that's what they like. I do think that the jd crowe/tattoo brand stuff is a bit tougher and cooler looking but still retains that same vibe. There's an eagle in jeff crib's portfolio of an eagle tear out that is cherry creek but shows how you can make any of that stuff even cooler looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delicious Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I had to google it, but when I see it, it reminds me of those fake tattoos you get for 50 cents... dirbab 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoMcConaghie Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Most people hate it because you have to actually know how to tattoo really well to pull it off. Rand Johnson was not afraid of putting a million lines in an otherwise simple tattoo. But its drawn well and the rednecks love it so for sure if you were tattooing in the nineties you had to do a bunch of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CultExciter Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Yes, it's overdone, and silly/non-sensical in its reproduction, but there is a reason it is in almost every street shop. $$$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rileykill Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 It seems "overdrawn" to me, in terms of flash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Flores Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Have plenty versions of the designs redrawn on sheets that we painted on the shop walls. The only issue I would say I have is when people have a shop full of magazine bought flash prints and none that they painted themselves in their shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colored Guy Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Some of their flash is very nicely done. Like anything else, you pays your money and you take your choice. Or don't. For the casual tattoo person, they might be perfect... maybe not for us tattoo-festooned freak shows... Rob MGblues and TrixieFaux 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOMONEY Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 "no fear" dagger flash. maybe thats why.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieFaux Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 For the casual tattoo person, they might be perfect... maybe not for us tattoo-festooned freak shows...Rob @Colored Guy, this needs to be in somebody's signature line. I'd use it though I'm not really tattooed enough yet...my mom would consider me a tatoo-festooned freak show... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colored Guy Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 @Colored Guy, this needs to be in somebody's signature line. I'd use it though I'm not really tattooed enough yet...my mom would consider me a tatoo-festooned freak show... Feel free to use it.. I'd be honored. I'm heavily inked by most standards, but lots of people here have way more than I do. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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