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nice, clean tattoo bro. well done

I think you got some talent, dude. keep up the good work, and Im also looking forward towards any criticism you may have.

Welcome, brother. Cant wait to see you progress thru this site. There is a ton of info on here, just ask. TRUST ME. you get an answer one way or the other. Good to hear you already use disposable, and it sounds like you have a good soundness to the art of tattooing. Post some work, man!

ur art looks like crap. I wouldn’t tattoo if I was you, looks like a 5 year old drew these. take some art theory classes or something.

I actually posted the wrong picture…the one I posted was the one that I used for my stencil, the one that I did is this one….sorry wasn’t paying attention, now feel stupid bc this has been posted for a few days now…..sorry again…

well I see the guitar fretboard now! that’s a cool idea, just make sure the rips and tears are not in a pattern. mix it up, make it look like a real tear. sweet idea, man.

yeah, this was the clients choice, trust me I tried to explain how the lines would look SO much better. She insisted to keep it this way because it was her boyfriend who did the lines, and she wanted to keep it that way to be special to her :roll: thanks for the input though!

it all looks disproportionate to me. Your shading isnt bad, but not good. work on getting the proportions right on the face, as well as some depth to the eyes.

i dont understand what it is.

the skull looks like an 8 year old drew it, the letters look ok.

see how your lines are kinda hazy? looks like you had too much pressure. When u do lining, let the weight of the machine itself place the needles, no need to apply any pressure. looks like you can follow a stencil pretty well, now you just need to get the depth right. Keep up the good work, and post more results!

make sure the bottom of your armeture bar is the proper distance from the spring shelf. contact screw gap should be a nickel to start off, adjust to your hand after that. the contact screw on my machine is about 1 oclock. Also, get yourself a small magnifying glass, and when you have your needle on armeture bar, rubberbands evenly on, and sitting…[Read more]

First off, let me say that I am not an apprentice, and I dont do tattoos all the time. But I have been tattooing since I was about 12, in one way or another. I am now 31. I have had professional equipment for about 12 years that I have been working on, and seriously, just got them to tune right in the last 6 years…So first off, you have to have…[Read more]

thanks man, yeah, i will try that and post some results. I do have some practice skins, but running out of space to tattoo on them, need some new ones. VERY different from real skin though, i think thats my problem as well. Im treating skin like the practice skin.

Oh and REAL Koro Sumi is Japanese…FYI

yeah its not an American thing, its just that everything that Ive owned from china has been crap. Not just tattoo equipment. But especially tattoo equipment! The quality is what they lack in thier work, they only worry about quantity. So again, you get what u pay for. Chinese frames are famous for being just bent sheet metal, which is never the…[Read more]

This, my friend, CANNOT be answered. Machines are a tool of preference. What I mean is, some artist use a machine that has different brands of coils from the frame, armeture bar, etc. because of their preference.So labeling the BEST machine would really be a frankenstein. The only advise to this is to STAY AWAY FROM CHINESE KITS!!!!! Invest in…[Read more]

when i first started off, if the ink didnt stay i went deeper, thinking that was what i was doing wrong. DONT DO THAT!! make sure when lining u adjust your hand speed, dont stay in one spot too long, dont move too fast and scratch the needle across the skin, hence the “scratcher” tag. also, angle of penetration is very important. 45 degree angle,…[Read more]

thats the problem with chinese stuff.. you may or may not have good luck, so why test your luck? i recently found that the freakin FRAMES aint worth a toot, they use a single sheet of metal and bend it, so its not at a perfect 90 degree angle at the rear spring deck, causing the springs to not line up like they should. Im going totally rotary.…[Read more]

I will man.