When someone comes in and wants a lettering tattoo, be it a word, phrase or entire paragraph, I’ll give them to choices. One, I can hand draw a nice fancy script which I prefer for single words generally, or to choose a font off the computer which works better for longer pieces.
Melissa wanted to get a phrase added to her back out in Arizona. So I fired up Photoshop and did what I usually do for lettering tattoos: I made her a paper with a couple different styles, each similar to what she described that she wanted and gave her the choice between them. Here is that piece of paper. She went with the one second to the bottom.
