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How To Outline A Tattoo
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Summary: Learn tips on how to start outlining a tattoo as a beginner tattoo artist with tips from a professional tattoo artist in this free skin art video clip.
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Jesse Bradley Jesse Bradley has studied many different art forms since 1994 at many different schools and academies around the country. He has always had a passion for tat... read more
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How To Outline A TattooThese are the colors that we're going to be using, here. We got black. We're gonna do the outline now, we're gonna start that. We got black, knucklehead red, white boy white, and bell bottom blue, as well as a cup with distilled water and just a dab of green soap and that to rinse our machine as we're going through the tattoo so it doesn't build up in the tip of the machine. We're going to begin the tattoo now, just a dot of Vaseline, like I said, a dot, you can't even see it on my finger, just on the area we're going to be working. Now, being that I am left handed we're gonna work from the left side over to the right so that it doesn't distort the transfer. So, I'm gonna work here in the bottoms and the tops and kinda jog around a little as I move over. So, we're gonna begin now. Here we go, we're going to start at the top here, got our first line in, second line, you see how I'm doing it in one stroke, it's real important that you can do that in one stroke. Now, as I'm doing this I want to explain that you don't want to go too deep, you're working off the tip of the needle not all the way up against the needle tip too, you're just working off the tip of the needle and you're going to find that it's a process of experimenting, what's gonna work for you. You don't want to wipe too much when we're doing this, you just want to dab the area, if you can so that it doesn't distort the pattern as we were discussing. And, periodically we're gonna re-dip the ink to fill this reservoir up here a little bit so that we can keep the tattoo moving. As I dip the ink I'm just putting the very tip in and hitting the foot peddle two or three times, maybe four or five times so that it gets ink in the reservoir, you don't want it to fill all the way up because it will bleed all over the skin, it will puddle.
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Mitchell is way sweet. those lines are ROUGH a third of that outline will be blownout. and for him to say that you should work off the tip when he's burying it.... maybe he's just trying to show you what you're line work will look like if you do what he says not to do. i can't say enough bad about what htis dude is doing. it's like watching someone tattoo in 1981 the times have left this dude far behind
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who -- in your cereal Stainless? If you aint got nothing nice to say perhaps you shouldnt say anything dude.
Somebody should cut your thumbs off you -- scratcher. You shake more than an epileptic at a disco. Nice carpet, too, scumbag.
Okay, look, guys. This guy may not know everything, but a good researcher knows how to compare data, and someone researching tattoo on the internet isn't going to just take one person's word as law. Kudos to this guy for trying to do his part with the knowledge he has to reduce the damage scratchers can do!
I agree, this is very heavy handed tattooing and less than amateurish lining. I am upset that the soap bottle is not covered, either. A very poor example of what anyone should be doing.
It's incerdibly obvious that you have no idea what you're doing, and that you're tattooing out of a house. This is dangerous and illegal, not to mention the fact that you're making a fool of yourself.