• @SkunkWorkz
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    22 days ago

    The one in the photo is probably still a font. How many tattoo artists would know how to write in Chinese calligraphy.

    • @ylph
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      92 days ago

      To me it looks done by hand, the inconsistencies in character sizes and stroke widths wouldn’t be seen in an actual font. The 独 also looks very hand drawn, the vertical strokes on 無 as well. It’s very “textbook” calligraphy, done by someone who knows the strokes and has some practice, but dull and with no personality, and still a degree of insecurity and inconsistency in the strokes, so perhaps a late beginner to intermediate level student of calligraphy. Not necessarily by the tattoo artist either, it could have been tattooed from a template written on paper.