In your pin you mention tattoo commissions. Is there a different methodology in designing tattoos compared to your other canvas work? I can guess there's work to go into space and what detailing can fit, but didn't know if there was more to it or not.
Uuuuuh it's hard to explain in one post really. It's like....... making a new kitchen from the start. You still can design a nice looking kitchen that works fine, but there's a high risk you'll make some mistakes that shows up after some time, or it'll turn out something is impossible to make even if it looks good on a paper like...... idk drawers won't open because they're too close to each other
When it comes to tattooing or more like making a design of a tattoo, there're so many things that might be important and easy to miss by someone who has no tattooing experience. Like making crucial or small parts of the design (like eyes) on moving body parts (for example inside of the elbow), there's a huge risk that this fragment will strongly blur out over time. Or idk making lines too thin or too thick. I had tons of situations where I had to explain to clients that I can't make 10 cm of full body character tattoo with a lot of details because needle that small doesn't exist. You have to remember that someone else will work with the design you made, that means you have to make a design that is possible to print on stencil printer so the tattoo artist won't have an extra work doing lines from the beginning. Skin isn't flat, so even if something looks good on paper doesn't have to looks good on a person. sometimes I design my tattoos a bit wider so it might look weird on a paper but it looks good on a skin, because of the body curves
There's a lot, aaaa loooooot, it's way easier to show on a specific designs what might work, what might not and why
Going back the shore - yes, making a design for a simple commission is completely different than drawing a tattoo design