Sabio

[Sabio]

Hey fellow soldier!!!

First of all…Thank you for your service… I am Retired Army (19K/18E/25F)…

If you are located in the Fort Hood Area I could help you… I got some reading material and I believe I got few machines I could spare… Also, I can help you with any questions you might have or will have and give you some tips… Cant give you an apprenticeship because I do not have a business, I do this for fun for the past 10 years and I do it from my home office!!!…I do not charge and I only Tattoo few people I known for many years that are working in a full body ink…

Send me a PM and I send you my contact info if you are in the Fort Hood area…

Sabio…
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[Sabio]

Bem-vindo.
K, que a tinta ou pigmento está usando para suas tatuagens?

[Sabio]

Right on… Keep it up and put some pictures when you done inking it up!!! i will like to see the out come!!!

Sabio
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[Sabio]

Jester,

You can install MS Works for MAC and transfer it that way or use any Photoshop Product and save it as .JPEG… but I haven’t play with a Dot matrix in a long time so i don’t know if it will like .JPEG or .BMP…

Sabio

[Sabio]

Really nice work…

Just a little advice if you don’t mind… When ever you do anything with scale’s…specially Japanese… make sure you pay attention to where the fish or dragon bends… in the inside of the bend the scales should be tight and close and in the outside of the bend the opposite… (I mean in the middle of the bend in and out)….

But your art if pretty dam good… Kuddos…

Sabio

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Lead me Follow Me or Get the Hell Out of My Way
~Gen. George Patton, Jr.

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odiousfunk:

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder… and like my old battle body used to say: “You got Balls brother”…

Good job… Keep practicing… use some Pig skin… you can get it in the market out of “Pork shoulder”…

[Sabio]

Very nice

[Sabio]

This subject has been a big issue for decades all around!!!..

Old Schools believe in the apprenticeship were you are a slave before they teach you anything so you have to earn your Dues!!! and then you have the “New Schools” were they don’t believe in the old school ways nor they believe in any type of structure…and then you have people like me… and let em explain:

I’ve been tattooing for 10 years or so…
I can draw ok…but really I suck at it… I am a video game 3D animator… I create 3D worlds for video games…mostly MMORPGS… I can draw the most bad-ass what ever you want in digital media… but the reality is I cant draw by hand as a “real” tattooist should… but reality is… I can tattoo and I can do it like a pro…

I tried an apprenticeship once in 1993… they ask me for $4,500… and treat me like shit… by the second month I got tire of it…ask for my money back…the owner refuse, I bit the living hell out of him and made him give me the money and I did tattoo in his fore head “I am a looser”… I did spend 10 days in jail and they gave me a choice because was my first offense…go to jail for 2 years or join the Army… Long story short… I retired from the Army…

After that… I self thought my self by just doing it in Pork Skin… the grape fruit didn’t work that well for me…by the way, I did tattoo few live pigs…just get them drunk first… they like beer and vodka…. don’t know why they didn’t like my Jack Daniels…

Schools… for my way of learning… 3 Weeks in a school would be enough for what you have to learn (the basics)… I don’t care what people say… The real tattoo artist (I am talking about tattooing not drawing)…After a 2 year or so tattooing…he/she is on his/her own…now there is no more learning…now is perfecting the skills!!!…after the first year tattooing at least 3 or 4 tattoos a week you don’t learn new skills you have to perfect your skills and make adjustments and fine tune them… eventually you will learn if the opportunity arise other way to tattoo like the Japanese style or Polynesian style… but that comes with experience…

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[Sabio]

Looppi, what brand of Ink are you using?…

Also, regardless on how flexible you might be… if you going to do your tight you should have some a friend help you stretch your skin… I been tattooing for 10 years and about 2 months ago I decided to tattoo my self for the first time… No a good idea… but with the help of my son I was able to finish it!!!… I did tattoo my tight also… My son help me stretch my skin…

[Sabio]

Guys… If you have any issue with dot matrix Printer Drivers… Any PC running MS Windows OS either Business or Pro edition should be able to auto detect the printer, Home editions, I don’t believe it would have all the .DLL database complete… If you cant find it… send me a PM… I still do some consultant job inside the Military installation and they still use Dot Matrix for some old systems… I might be able to find some… just send me Brand and model… and for MAC… I been in IT for over 20 years and that is a dark area for me…even tho I can do a little bit of Pearl language…I don’t know shit about Mac…. except that you can install a Windows partition on it!!! ;)

[Sabio]

Thank you for the welcome!!! 8-)

[Sabio]

That’s what I am talking about!!!

We need more people like him to help the tattoo culture take a spin in society for good!!!…too many moralist in this society this days!!!

Invite him to the forums… I bet he will give a nice spin to it!!! and might be able to attract more people…

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Sabio

“Lead Me, Follow Me or Get The Hell out of My Way!!!”
~Gen. George Patton, Jr.

[Sabio]

A Preacher with Ink…Awesome!!!…

I had a similar issue with a friend and after few tries…I changed Ink an bammm!!! works like a champ!!! this tattoo specifically was all Black and Blue… I change ink and use the Kuro-Sumi for the black and the guy is a DJ and do a lot of underground parties so he ask me to do some other details with florescent ink for the black lights of the parties!!! I used Moms Nuclear UV – Blue Smoke… after that… his tattoo in his finger hasn’t fade… now the UV blue I did retouched once 9 months after!!!

[Sabio]

Ink’s/Pigments… That is a complicated subject… on my experience, inks works different in every skin… some people skin take any ink some people are a bit complicated and only works good with a specific brand… For me so far, I like SkinCandy… I have been using it for the past year or so and I am very pleased…I used to use Mom’s…

Now on the machines… I personally buy my machines from 2 places:

Coil Machines: http://martini-machines.com and I use the Calavera II
Rotary Machines: http://www.frictiontattoo.com and I use the *PRO* Diablo Rotary Machines

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