#selftattoo, wonky traditional moth...

dirtnail · 22 Apr 2021

At it for a while now and still can't line for crap

And the stencil warps all over the place when tattooing myself...
But having loads of fun filling up my legs with wonky practice tattoos anyway!
I'm going for a vintage drunk carny tattoo style... so I can get away with telling everyone this is intentionally wonky

Done using a CNC-Q2 with battery pack
Lining : Kwadron 3509RL Medium taper at 9.6v
Packing : Killerink 3507M1 at 7,6v
Ink : Eternal Lining Black, World Famous (blue), Fusion (yellow) and Solid Ink/Fusion mix (red)

Torb · 23 Apr 2021

Looks cool. I like the wonkyness. ?

Dzikichrzan · 24 Apr 2021

cool man, I can stand wonkiness but this left tendon.. 1 mm to meet the head bro

it reminds me of a guy called Darell Talent I reckon... he does his own wanky skuls with similiar colour palette and even had somethink like 'blind drawing' designs lol. Its just matter how you will sell this to your customers

gadsden1776 · 24 Apr 2021

there's wonky
there's style
there's preference

go art.

there is also the application of good technique to achieve what there is to achieve.

i say that because every time i look at this there are a few places the line work could have/should have been better. most particularly is the left side second wing... just before it goes into the radius coming off the body. looks like you went in to fix or thicken (& maybe more than once) & then didn't follow that through for the rest of the line.

the top of the left wing (green) looks stained. could be the pic? blood?

looks solid though for the most part though. skin condition looks good too.

dirtnail · 24 Apr 2021

gadsden1776 said:
there's wonky
there's style
there's preference

go art.

there is also the application of good technique to achieve what there is to achieve.

i say that because every time i look at this there are a few places the line work could have/should have been better. most particularly is the left side second wing... just before it goes into the radius coming off the body. looks like you went in to fix or thicken (& maybe more than once) & then didn't follow that through for the rest of the line.

the top of the left wing (green) looks stained. could be the pic? blood?

looks solid though for the most part though. skin condition looks good too.

Yeah, well spotted. There are definately plenty of shortcomings in the tattoo... that's why I only tattoo myself ?
Every error on myself is one I don't make on someone else.

Burt · 24 Apr 2021

dirtnail said:
Yeah, well spotted. There are definately plenty of shortcomings in the tattoo... that's why I only tattoo myself ?
Every error on myself is one I don't make on someone else.

I'm with you there brother, I kinda like the mistakes on myself but wouldn't want to put my mistakes on anyone else. My thighs are my practice skin.

ELY_M · 11 Jul 2023

Did you use eternal black lining ink on the pig tattoo on the top of the image?

#selftattoo, wonky traditional moth...

dirtnail

Torb

Dzikichrzan

gadsden1776

dirtnail

Burt

ELY_M

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