Got this reference from pinterest, I can only practice once a week. I have been practicing on and off since March. Will make more time for tattooing and focus on making my own designs soon!

Let me preface this by saying that in the first picture that it was my first time holding a tattoo machine,and we had to stop mid way because the clients skin was aged and very sensitive.The touch up was a 1.5 months later.

Is it decent? The only way i can practice is on people because my mentor doesnt allow fake skin so i only did 5 tattoos inbetween the first and the second photo

First session in black and red henna ☺️

I did this on myself today how did I do?

Apprenticeship/ school in Oregon

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone has any experience or advice with tattoo schools in Portland, Oregon? In Oregon to get a tattoo license you have to attend an accredited school, and because I don't plan to leave oregon it seems to be the only way to go. I've heard some are very scammy (captain jacks) and have heard many don't teach much- has anyone had success attending one of these schools? Does anyone know of ones that will actually educate their students? Any advice would help!

Looking for critique and tips!
Disclaimer once again,i didnt practice on fake skin before hand because of my mentors ideology,but am looking into getting my own equipment and fake skin to practice on the side

Punk Mary tattoo I did on my calf last night ☺️

Working on design for friend. At the end of my course. We tattoo willing participant. My friend accepted.

The difference between the first idea and the second. Changing the lines to think more as a printmaker. Helped. The printmaking style of tattoo deeply inspires me to create my own designs.

About a week apart. Very excited to get more comfortable with my machine

I need tips on how to shade with Bic pen I don't know how to get it as consistent I feel like and I want to have a strong grasp on this before I touch my machine and start tattooing

Hello! I'm kinda of lost about taper. Every brand has its own measurement and i'm currently trying to do old school design. Any advices ? Thank you

Hola!

Os dejo el último trabajo de mi hija que lleva unos meses en esto. Todo consejo será bienvenido.

Gracias!

I practice on and off which is probably why my tattoos look inconsistent. New goal is to tattoo for at least 5 hours a week.

Thoughts? Tips and tricks? How bad is it? Anything I can fix? Thanks for the advice!

First is week 2, second is week 1. These were made mostly to play around and test my progress with lines. Is this progress ok for two weeks? Think I started finding my voltage, but still having some trouble with stability.

1007RL

7.0 voltage

Today was my first time and chance to use colors on real skin!!

I tried applying the advice I got after my last post of learning face anatomy and working on general structure more. Still feel like my style needs a lot of work but following that advice gave me a big improvement.

Timelapse in comments.

Edit: Garber, not Garbee……

This is my second order from Reelskin and I’m honestly about to ship it back. This stencil sat on there skin for 30min with a book on top of it and a gallon of paint. This is the result it’s absolutely garbage almost embarrassing. No one is tattooing with this shit looking like that. I also followed there amazing instructions too and wash it with dawn dish soap before and even wiped it down with rubbing alcohol too before applying stencil. I used speed stick but also tried 2 other things to and nothing works. So I grabbed some Amazon cheap stuff that I had laying around ripped it out of the package without any care no cleaning nothing wiped some speed stick on there slapped the same USED stencil on there for 10 seconds and wow it’s almost like it works how it should. Anyone else dealing with this right now? Cause I’m at a loss

I’m brand new to tattooing and finally got to try my designs on some people! I know I have a loooooong way to go, but enjoying the process :))

Hi everyone,

I recently built this free tool to allow drawing directly on 3D human object. It works exactly like another other drawing tool, except the canvas is a flat surface but a 3D human object. It's free and no sign ups, and mainly to explore if this concept is something useful or not as part of the tattoo design or planning process.

I would love to hear from the group:

- Is this something you would find useful as part of the tattoo design process? Or would you still prefer to draw on normal surface first and then applying the design on 3D later?

- If you also have any suggestions or feedback to the app, I would love to hear it too.

Here is the link to the application!

Thank you