Coloring a Tattoo

When you say ‘shade’, I am guessing that you mean a lighter application of color, rather than blending one color into another? If you mean lighter application, I would suggest watering down the colored ink as you would water down black to make greywash :) I find that my color packer acts very much like a shading machine, with very minimal ink insertion on a first pass, and needs going over the area a few times to get the proper saturation, but because the machine hits so softly, it doesn’t chew the skin up in the process :) If you mean you are trying to blend colors, then I would suggest in addition to the fully colored area in the dark ink, do an area a few mm around it at say 50% saturation, then when you use the next color, over lap that color over the 50% area, so the two colors mix in the skin, before then going on to the area of full color. Kind of hard to describe what I’m meaning… For example

2 cm circle of solid red ink
Then have a 5mm ring of 50% red ink (not watered down pigment, but only one or two passes so the area is not fully saturated)
Then have a 15mm ring of yellow ink, starting at the edge of the 2cm circle. That will then make the 5mm ring of red ink become a 5mm ring of orange ink and create a 1cm ring of yellow ink outside of the ‘mixed’ area.

Hope that’s of help :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qoRvnnEu8w

This video was very helpful. I was (am) struggling a bit with the same stuff. After watching this video I’ve practiced a bit, only on practice skin, but was able to really blend 1000x better than previously.

Damn phone won’t load that vid. I gotta go to the library and check that shit! Nice koi!

I cant see shit….all the pictures on this site are so small its hard to make anything out!!!! :cry:

@KitchenWizard wrote:

When you say ‘shade’, I am guessing that you mean a lighter application of color, rather than blending one color into another? If you mean lighter application, I would suggest watering down the colored ink as you would water down black to make greywash :) I find that my color packer acts very much like a shading machine, with very minimal ink insertion on a first pass, and needs going over the area a few times to get the proper saturation, but because the machine hits so softly, it doesn’t chew the skin up in the process :) If you mean you are trying to blend colors, then I would suggest in addition to the fully colored area in the dark ink, do an area a few mm around it at say 50% saturation, then when you use the next color, over lap that color over the 50% area, so the two colors mix in the skin, before then going on to the area of full color. Kind of hard to describe what I’m meaning… For example

2 cm circle of solid red ink
Then have a 5mm ring of 50% red ink (not watered down pigment, but only one or two passes so the area is not fully saturated)
Then have a 15mm ring of yellow ink, starting at the edge of the 2cm circle. That will then make the 5mm ring of red ink become a 5mm ring of orange ink and create a 1cm ring of yellow ink outside of the ‘mixed’ area.

Hope that’s of help :)

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@hutongsa wrote:

@KitchenWizard wrote:

When you say ‘shade’, I am guessing that you mean a lighter application of color, rather than blending one color into another? If you mean lighter application, I would suggest watering down the colored ink as you would water down black to make greywash :) I find that my color packer acts very much like a shading machine, with very minimal ink insertion on a first pass, and needs going over the area a few times to get the proper saturation, but because the machine hits so softly, it doesn’t chew the skin up in the process :) If you mean you are trying to blend colors, then I would suggest in addition to the fully colored area in the dark ink, do an area a few mm around it at say 50% saturation, then when you use the next color, over lap that color over the 50% area, so the two colors mix in the skin, before then going on to the area of full color. Kind of hard to describe what I’m meaning… For example

2 cm circle of solid red ink
Then have a 5mm ring of 50% red ink (not watered down pigment, but only one or two passes so the area is not fully saturated)
Then have a 15mm ring of yellow ink, starting at the edge of the 2cm circle. That will then make the 5mm ring of red ink become a 5mm ring of orange ink and create a 1cm ring of yellow ink outside of the ‘mixed’ area.

Hope that’s of help :)

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I think, you should dilute the ink. You should add a dilute agent like white tattoo ink. Then you should examine this mixture by pouring some drops with clean paper.

I am wondering that you mean a brighter program of shade, rather than mixing one shade into another? If you mean brighter program, I would recommend water down the shaded ink as you would water down dark to make greywash I discover that my shade packer functions very much like a covering machine