To tattoo a design on a customer’s skin, a stencil is usually needed. Now that tattoo designers are reaching out to an international market through the Web, stencils are necessary on order to send out designs to customers.
Either a tattoo designer can set himself up in business on his own site or he can join up with another tattoo website which hosts tattoo design contests. If a tattoo designer has just begun running his own site, the traffic to it may not be enough to attract crowds of customers, and make it lucrative. However, if the artist’s website is well known and attracts many eyeballs, he can make plenty of money from it.
One more way in which a tattoo design artist can be successful at his trade is for him to take part in tattoo design contests that are hosted on many websites. These contests invite designers to participate in them and are beneficial to both newbie and experienced designers. Signing up here is easy and free, and once you’ve registered, you’re automatically exposed to a lot of traffic, as these sites are well established.
When an artist registers with a contest site and wants to work on a customer’s tattoo design, they need to send a stencil with the prize-winning tattoo design to the customer. A tattoo designer can compete in any number of tattoo design contests on these sites and vie for innumerable tattoo designs.
For a tattoo designer who is on the lookout for exposure, design contests are the perhaps the best avenue. If an artist has his own website, joining a tattoo design contest site means that he could attract more traffic to his own site.
When tattoo designs are created online, stencils are the medium through which a tattooist can get his designs to the public. Regardless of the talent an artist may possess, if he doesn’t create his amazing designs with a stencil, he won’t be able to get his designs to his customers. If this doesn’t happen, he won’t be able to have a band of loyal customers for his creations. The more exposure a designer’s tattoo designs receive, the more demand there will be for him in the tattoo industry to make tattoo designs.
This is best done by using the services of a site that hosts tattoo design contests, because these sites attract many more customers. These customers provide tattoo designers with many opportunities to make custom design tattoos, and earning a name for their specialized skills.
To provide stencils serves two purposes: one, to get an artist’s work across to the customer, and two, it is also a requirement of tattoo design contests. When a tattoo designer’s work wins the competition, he will send the design and its stenciled version to the contest host so that he can take it and have it inked at a nearby tattoo shop. After this, he will sport the artist’s design and tell his friends about how he got it and from which artist.
Kristen Dunn is a tattoo enthusiast and professional tattoo designer who has created thousands of thought provoking, elegant, and funky tattoos for her clients. She has a vast collection of custom designs to her credit. Winner of several awards and accolades, Kristen is now a founding member of the world's largest custom tattoo design community at CreateMyTattoo. View her tattoo collection or read more on her blog here.