Freelancing from Home – Think about Tattoo Design Contests

A good way for tattoo designers to sell their designs is to work freelance from home. Consider entering tattoo design contests and send announcements to fellow designers to get them to take part. After this, send announcements to tattoo artists to look for clients to take part in the contest and then set a particular date. For designers who work from home creating ideas, and who want to reach out to the world outside, this is a fantastic idea which actually works!!!

If you’re a full time freelancer tattooist, you can gain more visibility with your designs by logging on to sites like freelancer.com. Here, you’ll find numerous areas where tattoo designers can use their designing skills, and bid for jobs as freelance designers. If you sponsor a job on this site, you can go on to host a fantastic contest with international tattoo designer applicants sending in their stuff to you.

And not just that, you can also check out the internet for any other competitions in which freelance tattoo designers can participate. These days, the rules allow new artists to be part of competitions, but they do have some rules, which if you are a new designer, you need to take notice of. These are:

• You must present only original designs, but realistically, this is impossible to check out, since there are millions of designs around which makes it difficult to compare and check for total originality.
• Ensure that you enter your design in the right category since there are so many of them, ranging from caricatures, abstract, tribal, fantasy, etc. Often, they are also arranged according to size, placement, color, etc.
• All entries sent to competitions must conform to a predetermined height and width of tattoo size within a set size for each class.
• All entries must reach the host site within a certain set date. Late entries will not be entertained.
• According to most contest rules, the jury can decided if any edging is to be done because some entries need smooth edging, others uneven.
• All tattoo entries must be inked at the contest by the artists alone.
• Judges must be completely impartial and have no knowledge of the designer, the tattoos or who is being inked. Judges are usually only shown the tattoo without the tattooist’s name. Some judges ask to see the client’s body part before the tattoo is created to verify that the tattoo was inked at the contest alone, and not before.
• All contests ask that clients be 18 years of age or older.

Freelancing from home is a great way for tattoo designers to flourish, apart from tattoo design contests. Participating in these contests and hosting them are two sure shot ways of showcasing a tattooist’s portfolio of designs, so that fellow artists and participants in these contests can see one’s designs for future design creation. Hosting a contest is a good way of putting one’s designs on the market. Designers, however, can find many innovative ways of displaying their designs and making money, too!