TexasPT

@TexasPT wrote:

great first shot…you should be happy with this one.

I’m one of those types of people that want to everything to be perfect. I see a lot of flaws and somethings I could’ve done better, but thank you for the kind words!

@TexasPT wrote:

Rees- somehow I edited your post. sorry about that. :oops:

lol, I was wondering what happened. No problem.

@TexasPT wrote:

Thanks guys. The thicker line would have been much better. I’m thinking this picture doesn’t show the shading well, because it sure looked good when I was doing it. Went in smooth and gradients ended up where I wanted them. I kept it real light…didn’t want much black in the piece.

Been at it just over a year, I guess.

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@TexasPT wrote:

I’m going to have to jump on the bandwagon and say the hair is the weak part of this one. If you went darker, and EVENED the shading out so it creates a highlighted line rather than all over it would pay dividends. Maybe a little shading in the flower…it looks real painted on.

I like the piece and I think it’s all an easy…

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@TexasPT wrote:

I think spacing is a bit of a struggle in these…but overall the work looks pretty clean.

How do you put the stencil together? The one script I’ve done (because I’m chicken” I used Microsoft word and stenciled straight from the print out so the spacing would be on.

Mark

All I use is MS Word, I’ve downloaded thousands of…[Read more]

@TexasPT wrote:

Nearly everything in life is easier to learn if you have a mentor, teacher, coach, etc. I firmly believe this because the average person doesn’t know what they don’t know. Myself included.

If you look at my work, I’ve progressed quite a bit in the last year. But I am still LIGHT YEARS away from where I need to be. If I had…

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@TexasPT wrote:

Off to a great start, Ben.

One thing you can notice is that your hand speed changed a lot during the tattoo. Line width varies in places…nothing major but seems worth pointing out since we’re all trying to get better here.

I say go for shading/scales. The original design is real flat. I think if you go a little artistic on it…

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@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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@TexasPT wrote:

honestly, I’ve googled “tattoo designs”, “tattoo flash”, and then more specific like “skull tattoo” or “flower tattoo” and used the image search. There are MILLIONS out there.

Mark

Did the same – it is definitely the easiest thing. Above all because you can easily print out the images on singular paper pages and then use it to…[Read more]

@TexasPT wrote:

Good work, Blaze. Big step forward, for sure.

Looks like your theater masks have a pretty good amount of blowouts. (but the lines look like a HUGE improvement) 2 things typically cause that. Either going too deep with the needle, or holding it at too great an angle. (I did this a few weeks ago so the lesson is fresh in my…

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@TexasPT wrote:

Good work, Blaze. Big step forward, for sure.

Looks like your theater masks have a pretty good amount of blowouts. (but the lines look like a HUGE improvement) 2 things typically cause that. Either going too deep with the needle, or holding it at too great an angle. (I did this a few weeks ago so the lesson is fresh in my…

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@TexasPT wrote:

if you get the thumbnail but not the actual, there is probably a problem on your end. I know folks have gotten that before and it is usually a security setting or browser issue. There was another thread about image problems on here, too.

i cant figure it out. this is the only site i have problems with.
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@SirBlazeAloT wrote:

@TexasPT wrote:

you are not shading. You are throwing different values of black anywhere you want. This is the dimension Troubled is talking about.

You are making the same mistakes over and over…this isn’t learning, this is making mistakes over and over. You should show a progression…you should be able to exhibit that you…

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@TexasPT wrote:

you are not shading. You are throwing different values of black anywhere you want. This is the dimension Troubled is talking about.

You are making the same mistakes over and over…this isn’t learning, this is making mistakes over and over. You should show a progression…you should be able to exhibit that you understand your…

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@TexasPT wrote:

you are in no danger of being upstaged!

haha….should i feel threatened? at least he had the respect to ask. most people dont do that, that’s why i say i cant stop them…

@TexasPT wrote:

you are in no danger of being upstaged!

LMAO!!

@TexasPT wrote:

@Troub1edSou1z wrote:

i cant exactly stop you….

LMAO!!!

i guess those are the chances you take when posting your work on the world wide web…

@TexasPT wrote:

2 minute shading job…if that. You’ll want yours to look much better than this, but this gives you a basic idea of what you need to be looking to accomplish.

Mark

More help than I thought I would get from anyone ever here! Im doing this now man, thanks a LOT!!!

Your the MAN mark!

@TexasPT wrote:

now you are just dismissing good advice because it isn’t what you want to hear.

if everyone tells you to draw…don’t you think EVERYONE may be on to something? You have no grasp of shading. If you can’t do it with a simple approach like pencil and paper then you are f**ked if you want to get it in skin.

Yes…these can be fixed.…

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@TexasPT wrote:

not a problem…I still have half a stencil pencil lying around here. I let my kid put “tattoos” on with it. :)

LMAO – Thats exactley what I did with mine.