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So - as of summer last year I began my journey into tattooing.
So far I have done only a few tattoos on human skin so still much improvement to make. This shows my 2nd (rose), 3rd (anchor), 4th (tiny owl) and 5th (wolf) tattoos completed.
Designs were drawn by me aside from the anchor.
So far I have done only a few tattoos on human skin so still much improvement to make. This shows my 2nd (rose), 3rd (anchor), 4th (tiny owl) and 5th (wolf) tattoos completed.
Designs were drawn by me aside from the anchor.
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From experience, the fake skin is VERY hard to work on. It's like tattooing an eraser. You can make it semi-okay by wrapping it around your leg, or a roll of kitchen paper or something else soft but it's still pretty yuck, especially for colour work, which likes to stain it hardcore. It is far harder to do than human skin and teaches you very little about humans.
I'd recommend starting out on fruit - grapefruit and, if you can get it, pomelo (that was my fave, found it cheap in Lidl). Pig skin is supposed to be good if you have butchers nearby that will supply it but I didn't. The fruit is not actually that dissimilar from tattooing on flesh though and it will teach you about tattooing on curved surfaces. Going onto real skin is a challenge regardless of which method because of learning about skin stretch and what speed to run your machine at.
I'd recommend starting out on fruit - grapefruit and, if you can get it, pomelo (that was my fave, found it cheap in Lidl). Pig skin is supposed to be good if you have butchers nearby that will supply it but I didn't. The fruit is not actually that dissimilar from tattooing on flesh though and it will teach you about tattooing on curved surfaces. Going onto real skin is a challenge regardless of which method because of learning about skin stretch and what speed to run your machine at.
Gosh, thank you so much for the help! That really means a lot.
Yeah I had a nightmare of a job on that fake skin, the yellow ink came out black?! So (shhhh don't tell anyone) I poked myself in the arm with the needle (not in machine) with the ink in to see whether it was poor ink, but no it was yellow xD SOMEWHERE (so small I can't see it now) I have a single dot of yellow tattoo ink xDDD
The machine scares the life out of me, I'm scared I'll get an electric shock from the coils, just because of how it connects with the pins *shudders*.
But anyway, enough about me, I cannot wait to see more from you and to see you progress, I'm really excited :D Best of luck, not that you need it!
Yeah I had a nightmare of a job on that fake skin, the yellow ink came out black?! So (shhhh don't tell anyone) I poked myself in the arm with the needle (not in machine) with the ink in to see whether it was poor ink, but no it was yellow xD SOMEWHERE (so small I can't see it now) I have a single dot of yellow tattoo ink xDDD
The machine scares the life out of me, I'm scared I'll get an electric shock from the coils, just because of how it connects with the pins *shudders*.
But anyway, enough about me, I cannot wait to see more from you and to see you progress, I'm really excited :D Best of luck, not that you need it!
Yep, you'd think they could invent something better! But then the fruit that I practiced the first few months on taught me about as much as any practice thing could, skin stretch (on different parts of the body), and also what speed to run at for different parts of the body, is the big learning curve. I was fortunate enough to have a really supportive father who just told me "enough of the practice stuff, you can't do that forever. Here's my skin, get learning." :P
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