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I haven’t been on here for awhile now and this was the first topic I happened to read.Amazingly I have similar problems, I have a 5 year old who is also a high functioning autistic child and 2 other kids. I barely have time for myself and find myself dismissing his requests in frustration. While I am not in school,it is still hard to find time to work on my art and find myself wondering if it is a useless pursuit of a career. I find myself waking up at 4 am on my days off to hopefully work on my art which I believe is excellent practice for tattooing. Your not alone on this and I believe there are others as well who are struggling. Hope you are able to find a balance between everything. :)

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You do have very clean linework! Especially for your first time! Awesome work! :)

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Thanks a lot guys! Loopi, for practice I took a pen and put it in the tube vise of my machine and started tracing the lines on my son’s spiderman coloring book! There’s a lot of lines on that guy and I think it’s excellent for linework practice with the weight of the machine and all.I know there’s a long way to go but I’ll hang in there and I’m sure you will too! :D

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I’m glad somebody let me know this,thanks! I changed it so hopefully it works and I can get some feedback! :P

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So I’ve been practicing on everything from fruit to pig skin and have done 2 real tattoos on people who gave up their skin for me to “experiment” on. Then I came across this topic and thought,”what a great idea!” I pondered the idea till yesterday and said F**k it! and went to town doing a bloodline on my leg! First,OWW! second,excellent practice,and third,if it scars,it’ll be an awesome one! I say it is excellent practice because everything is real except the ink.So if I mess up,no worries,it’ll only be ugly till it heals.Only drawback is I feel the needles and in certain areas the sting is worse and instinctively,I pull back the machine or rush the line so it isn’t as smooth as I’d like it!(I know,suck it up! Right?)So thanks a million viper!Best practice skin ever!

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Thanks for the links Charles.I guess I could’ve done that myself but thanks anyway! And I do bag my machines and clip chord,I just wanted to know if it is still necessary to sterilize the machines even after barrier protection.

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Thanks for the input! I just purchased some equipment as well as the book! :mrgreen: Can’t wait to get started! And no humans for a while,gotcha!

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Thanks! And If I get pig skins,do you think it would hurt if I stuck them in the freezer if I don’t use them right away? Seeing that they would start rotting. If anyone tried this let me know.

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Again,thanks !

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Thanks for the info!

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