A tattoo stencil is a tattoo design template. Tattoo stencils can be transferred from either transparency paper or transfer paper to your skin, then a tattoo artist can use the stencil to help guide their artwork. Originally, tattoo stencils were usually used only as guidelines for the artist who created the original drawing, and if another tattoo artist wanted a stencil of a tattoo design, they had to replicate the design as closely as possible in their own hand before they could turn it into a stencil. However, with the help of the internet and a variety of other digital technology, you and your personal tattoo artist can now take advantage of original stencils of tattoo designs straight from the hand of the artist who created the tattoo design in the first place. This is very exciting for many people who want to be sure that they will be able to get their tattoo artist to replicate nearly exactly a tattoo design that has been dear to their heart for a long period of time.
There are several reasons that people decide to use tattoo stencils. First of all (and this is likely the best and most popular reason), tattoo stencils provide a solid guide for the tattoo that both the tattoo artist and the person getting the tattoo can look at together and agree on. What a stencil provides that other test tattoos do not is a solid guide for the artist as well. A tattoo design stencil enables any tattoo artist to replicate in detail the design of your dreams. Certainly there will be tiny touches that you and the tattoo artist work on together that will make that tattoo your own. However, a tattoo stencil provides the guide, the style and the creative backbone that you and your artist can work with to make your tattoo just exactly what you have been dreaming of.
Tattoo stencils are also extremely popular for another reason that probably will not surprise you. Legitimate tattoo stencils come with color guides also designed by the original artist. This means that nothing is left to chance. While some energetic tattoo collectors enjoy getting tattoo surprises that leave the color (and sometimes the style and image) selection entirely up to the tattoo artist, most tattoo collectors and tattoo artists prefer to have some type of guide for your color desires when it comes to your tattoo. After all, a surprise is not always good, and if you do not like your tattoo surprise then that is unfortunate because you will be stuck with it forever. Tattoo stencils and the accompanying color guides can help tattoo artists create a tattoo design that looks just like the tattoo that you admired when you were picking out your tattoo design. Particularly when it comes to especially elaborate or realistic art, having a color guide can be the difference between having a very confusing and somewhat ambiguous tattoo design and having a beautiful and intricate tattoo design.
Finally, tattoo stencils give you something that nearly everyone wants when it comes to their permanent body art: predictability. If you and your tattoo artist are working with a stencil and a color guide, then both of you are on the same page about what type of tattoo design you want and what type of tattoo design you will end up with. An artist can evaluate the tattoo stencil and the color and guide and let you know if the work is something that they can do and are interested in doing, and you can also evaluate your potential tattoo based on a clear knowledge of what it will look like when it is completed. A tattoo stencil lets you rest secure in the knowledge that the tattoo that you have commissioned and the tattoo that you will get are one and the same.
When you are looking for tattoo stencils, always get the stencil from the original artist. Some artists do not provide tattoo stencils and color guides personally, but allow other tattoo studios or online tattoo services to provide these stencils to potential tattoo customers. Whether you get the tattoo stencil directly from the hand of the artist or you obtain a stencil that has been endorsed and approved by the original artist, by going straight to the source you will insure that you tattoo is as beautiful, elaborate and detailed in just exactly the right way as you could possibly wish.
