First tatt

Had you been using a machine on practice materials first? For as first tattoo, that’s awesome work :)

I like how you incorporated two tone color style for shading. Instead of just the same blue for everything. I would focus on the drawing part too. The ribbon looks way too thick instead of looking smooth and free flowing. You want to give that perception of wavy and free and tangible. So keep studying the drawing aspect and shading.

As for being your first tattoo your on the right track, but I think maybe a lil more time spent practicing on your own skin might help you better, so you can get a better feel for blending on skin. Cause no matter how sentimental this piece may be, thats real estate they can never get back, and when you get a lot better you’ll wish you would of waited so you could of given him a real quality piece that he can show off for you.

Overall its a lot better than most 1st timers I’ve seen. ;)

@Jammer wrote:

Thanks! Yea did 4 on some practice skin. Real skin is way easier than that rubber crap lol. I think my 10 year airbrushing career has helped a lot with color mixing and shading. Nothing like starting out with an easy one huh? LOL being sarcastic
I have #2 coming up sat. I’ll post pics when i’m finished.

I’ve not used practice skin myself, my first tattoos were on skin, and I then tried tattooing a grapefruit for shits and gigs, but the needle just sliced through the skin, and it felt more like a backward step. I’d read that practice skin has the opposite problem, and can make people develop a ‘heavy hand’ so I just stuck to working on real skin with simple designs to get the techniques down :)