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Nice post.  I go in person classes here (through work) and online.  No need really, but part of my OCD I suppose.

clean it, and non – stick gauze is how I do it.  Simple.  no need for me to write a chapter.  This should be one of the 1st things you learn in your medical training.
Good posts btw.

lol my bad.  Not human skullz.  Fabricated ones from clay, or kiln hardened versions, plastics, paper…etc. lol

Welcome amigo! Feel free to ask any questions you got. Many levels of talent here. We’ll share what we can.

I’m not much help here…..I use my thumb to tune my machine. I dont go by duty, cycles, power output…etc.

I’ve seen folks use all kinds of method formulas to calculate what their needs are on machines. lol thats all kewl. But for me….I just let the A-bar and my thumb determine pretty much…..what machine i’m going for, liner, packer,…[Read more]

Hey Christa welcome aboard! Feel free to jump in and join the convo’s.

ask away…

sorry I just wanted to comment that I love torn or twisted flesh tattoo’s! I can do this style in my sleep. love it. If i reply it would be too long of a post to read about the techniques i use to accomplish the feel.

i need to upload more work to my gallery but ugh…busy. I’m my own webmaster and yet I never have enough time to do my own stuff lol

Good honesty.

Since we’re being honest. When I’m not tattooing and I see tattoo work on others, I feel like I dont know how to tattoo, hard to explain, but its more of a “feeling”.

So before i do any tattoo or research a piece, I have to look at a couple of framed pieces I have on one of my walls by my station. Call it what you will, but I…[Read more]

Thats kewl to see agreement on this particular topic.

Agreed larger needles are good to start off with, I see this a lot with folks who get good doing “traditional” flash pieces/ artwork. cause you can learn to do clean, heavy, single pass outlines.

I learned hard way and thought I was supposed to start with the smallest. But then again I…[Read more]

hey not bad man, awesome work.

I agree used the same family of pink modified tad darker and sprinkle some white on the ribbon line work like you did to show direction of light(effect).

I myself use the same colors in the family of whatever color i’m building the piece up with. Thanks for sharing that ribbon, looks pretty good.

sorry, forgot to give you my opinion on your piece, my bad.

Not too bad amigo. The 3rl good choice. I msyelf would have used a 5. But then again I dont know exactly how big of piece that is. Thanx for sharing.

Look forward to seeing you progress. :)

hey did this particular skull also have roses with it?

Funny cause I did an identical rose on my upper thigh when I first switched to coil machines while ago. :lol:

…..aaaaahh gotcha. yeah i’ve been going back reading posts…etc.

this should be interesting…. :twisted:

@wiccaninker wrote:

Hello im a new inker.my first tattoo was done with a guitar string.from that first piece i have been hooked.i am getting into inking because it is to expensive to pay for them.

brought back memories, I spent 6 yrs with metal string before I went electric. Glad to see the cross over, but agree with the others you MUST make this…[Read more]

Is this what I have been missing? thanks for the private notes folks.

I see it now….said the blind man.

Yeah not kewl at all. Not sure who lifted what ban or who banned him.

Welcome aboard. sorry been MIA long mission and story. good to see this forum getting heavily used. ;) 8-)

….some of the comments made me laugh. :lol: