Viper65

Id love to see this healed……..

Lines look good and solid….keep it up!

Looking good!!!!!

Yup, you nailed it…..nice work!!!! I like the realism look of it as well, very intriquing!!!

look great to me, far past my skill level!!!!

Looking good, I like the woman’s head best, my kinda style! Nice work!

Im not sure Ill answer this correctly, but my BEST advise I can offer you is to get your hands on some Josh Carlton DVD’s. He can shade like there is no tomorrow and its pretty simple how he does it. He doesnt lay out 20 caps full of black diluted down to zero, rather if he is doing solid black then he works the solids, after that to go a shade…[Read more]

Looking good, obviously, still some ways to go…some of the line work is pretty sketchy but overall not horrible. You seem to have really put in the colors well, no problems there for the most part. I would say work on the lining skills some more and get them improved and you shall be well underway!!!

Personally, I think your doing a pretty good job there, it at least looks consistant. I have a difficult time of this as well, shading is tricky and takes a while to get the grasp of it properly. Just remember and Im sure you can tell already that its going to lighten up around 40%, so dont be too afraid to get some dark shades in there. Ive found…[Read more]

@TexasPT wrote:

you are in no danger of being upstaged!

LMAO!!

good man! :ugeek: 8-)

………..just outta curiousity are you using the stainless steel tips or plastic ones?

I wont bash…but make a suggestion instead. Start with some easier designs, these incorperate some pretty advanced stuff into them which makes them all the more difficult to accomplish. Try doing some simple tribal stuff, small flower designs, even some simple letters/names. After you get comfortable with that then move on to the advance stuff. I…[Read more]

Your in the right direction.
When you set up your machine, try this:
once you get the needle and set up how you like and its protruding about a nickel/dime (whatever) out of your machine with the A bar depressed, run the machine and put your thumb gently on the A-bar, notice the machine bogging down a bit? look at where the needle is when that…[Read more]

no problem….good, we can take the inks out of the equation….!!

@boot3rs wrote:

Hopefully this one shows up in focus

Welllll…….thats not much better, LOL.
Im no expert by the way but just judging from what I can make out in the picture overall it looks decent. I think your having more problems with saturation, that could be due to a lot of factors, ink being one of them. If your using cheap inks, as those…[Read more]

Looks good from here……. 8-)

……….it looks cool and work is neat so bonus for you!