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Ideas on improving shading(drawing and tattoo)

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Ideas on improving shading(drawing and tattoo)

-Subject:Shading tips.

Finishing up a tattoo design today. It’s a big shading piece. found some useful ideas on the way doing it, hopefully will be helpful for you as well, Let’s go over the step by step quickly.

1.Basic underline. The ideas of the monsters are given by the client, The fun part is to compose the four armed monster at the right, The action pose is exactly what the client requested, Since the two arms on the right is free, I’ve decided to make them expressive, Giving ideas what nasty things it will do to the smaller monster when he gets him. Stronger line weight on parts I want you to see.

Workouts for tattoo artist.

Workouts for tattoo artist.

-Subject: Tattooer exercise.

One physical requirement for tattooers which is critical would be you strength. It determines how long and how well you can control your machine, I’ve been working out before I became a tattooer before I observed that I could work for way longer hours then my peers, Then I asked them what’s wrong, they’d say their hand is sore and can’t hold the machine anymore. By having a stronger grip you can work for more hours which means more money for you too! So let’s see what workouts can you improve your grip strength.

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How to start practicing tattoo.

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How to start practicing tattoo.

-Subject: tattoo practice.

No matter if you have started apprenticing with a shop or working towards that goal knowing how to practice will just always be beneficial to build your skill set, So lets see how do you start off if you are starting from zero, first I’d assume you already have a machine, If not you can get a tattoo machine online, there are two main kinds coil and rotary. If you are completely new to tattooing getting a rotary would be easier to handle, Coil machines are more geared towards thick lines thus better for old school work, I’s say for the first 1-2 years you’d be working on fake skin(plastic) or you can be a little hardcore and get some pig skin. So you’ve tone your machine what should you do now?

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What makes a good tattoo: The 3 levels of viewing distance.

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What makes a good tattoo: The 3 levels of viewing distance.

-from the recently arranged desk of Dinlee

-Subject: 3 viewing distance of a tattoo piece.

If you break it down a ‘good’ tattoo is a collection of marks made on the skin which reads as a picture which could be experienced by the viewer’s eyes and process with the brain, A good tattoo traps the eye in it’s narrative and rewards the viewer with more information if you look closer