KitchenWizard

Looking good :) My suggestion for the hair, would be to study how hair is done in traditional Japanese tattoos, and use that style to bolden and darken the hair :)

Awesome work, dude, can’t wait to see how it progresses :)

I can’t really add more than has been said above, but nice work, especially the script :)

@robroy289 wrote:

@KitchenWizard wrote:

I did this on my best friend last Monday with my £6 rotary machine. It’s a recreation of the tattoo he designed for his partner, who passed from breast cancer a few years back…

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r44/TreadstoneArt/DSCN4777.jpg

Man it is so hard to recreate a tattoo that someone else has…

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@DannyBoy90 wrote:

The never had me use tape when making needles. all they had me do for hours was make lining needles then clean them and package them up for the autoclave.

How did you keep them lined up when grouping them together?

The lines look really clean, and the colors are gorgeous :) If you were to re-work the color, I would only suggest making the lines of the color a bit more consistent to the exterior lines, but other than that, it’s spot on :)

@TexasPT wrote:

Cool to be able to do a tribute like that. I’m doing a tree of life this week for a client whose mother passed recently.

Are you working off the needle or the tube? You have a lot of lines that seem real inconsistent. Not sure if it’s a depth issue that requires you to go back over them or if you are not stretching well enough. I…

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@DannyBoy90 wrote:

yeah it was great to learn. The people at the shop were amazing and my teacher was an incredible artist. It was just a shame that they were so greedy to exploit the shop for other means.

That is a shame, but I bet you’ll hit the ground running :) Even with what I’ve learned in the past couple of years, I’ve no idea about…[Read more]

I have always used vaseline, and never had a glove breakdown on me. However. Having done a piece on a friend who had a latex allergy a while back, I now only use the black nitrile gloves, as it saves the issues all round :)

@robroy289 wrote:

An apprenticeship is good!! The only thing i can say is i started out just like everyone else in my living room of my house. I didn’t know anything about a apprenticeship until i found this site, and don’t remember how i even found this site!!! And that was after i had allready done a few tattoo’s. Then i went to a shop in my…

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I did this on my best friend last Monday with my £6 rotary machine. It’s a recreation of the tattoo he designed for his partner, who passed from breast cancer a few years back…

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r44/TreadstoneArt/DSCN4777.jpg

Deleting spam is fun :D

That’s pretty cool if you learned needle-making in your apprenticeship, but good on you for standing up to any shady shenanigans at the studio :) There’s plenty of info out there to allow someone to be self-taught :)

Good to see you back, bro 8-)

@canvasyou wrote:

THE ONLY way to use metal is to use autoclave.
The health dept in iceland does not have same standards as USA.

Please use disposable tubes – its just easier and safer for everyone!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :lol: :lol:

In the past fortnight, I’ve been in two different UK studios, neither of which, had artists bagging clip…[Read more]

As above, the design is not to my taste, but, it is seriously well executed. Classic Old School aesthetic to it, it looks awesome :)

Nice to see your latest work, bro, really pro-looking stuff 8-)

It looks awesome, did you have help from someone to stretch the skin while you tattooed?

You do NOT need an apprenticeship… There’s more than enough information in books and online to learn how to tattoo, it’s just a case of reviewing it, sifting the good tips from the garbage, and getting down to it. At the end of the day, you will learn by tattooing, regardless of how you are learning…

@ben.catterall wrote:

That does make sense what you are doing with your legs, seeing as you have a plan for them. I unfortunately dont have a plan as yet for my legs so I am just being careful as to what I put where on my body. I have tattooed myself a few times so far, and have done plenty on friends and family. I just personally waited a little…

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