Hello everyone,
This is my very first message on this forum, I used to chat on Facebook groups but I now feel like actual forums like these might be better suited.
I am Arnaud from France, 28, mechanical engineer and I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. I bought an iPad pro last year and randomly started drawing on Procreate every day. I started drawing tattoos and loved it, then decided I should give a try to actual tattooing. I couldn't leave my job so I decided to learn with the help of internet and bought my first machine in December: a Bishop wand Packer.
I watched basically every video I could on youtube and chat with a few kind tattoo artists on IG, then started on reelskin. Here is my work (all designs are mine):
I then switched to pig skin:
Pig skin was honestly way different and harder than reelskin. I think it is a good school to learn how to adapt.
I then choose to go for actual skin on my skin first:
Last pic is like a month old and i am not very happy with the healing as a big part of the right side (left side on the pic) is blown out. This was the first part I tattooed and i think I was too stressed maybe !
I then started tattooing friends, the pics are listed in chronological order:
As you can see my drawing style is made of some thick lines. I tried big round shaders and it seems to work fine, although i am partially unhappy with it because it seems hard to stay perpendicular to the skin to have a nice clean line on both sides, plus after healing it often seem to be less sharp than lines done with big round liners. I heard big liners shred the skin too fast and that would be the main reason to use round shaders, but i cannot seem to find what's true :/ This might still be my biggest interrogation to this day.
Also, i bought a bishop liner and it works great for big lines, i now use the packer for packing black or thin lines.
Any help and constructive comment would be welcome !! I am truly passionate and I think I may have found a job I actually want to do for a living, so I am very dedicated and motivated. I know apprenticeship is the common way but this was not an option for me
Ps: i passed my tattoo hygiene exam in april !
Thank you all in advance and I hope to read your comments soon.
Arnaud
This is my very first message on this forum, I used to chat on Facebook groups but I now feel like actual forums like these might be better suited.
I am Arnaud from France, 28, mechanical engineer and I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. I bought an iPad pro last year and randomly started drawing on Procreate every day. I started drawing tattoos and loved it, then decided I should give a try to actual tattooing. I couldn't leave my job so I decided to learn with the help of internet and bought my first machine in December: a Bishop wand Packer.
I watched basically every video I could on youtube and chat with a few kind tattoo artists on IG, then started on reelskin. Here is my work (all designs are mine):
I then switched to pig skin:
Pig skin was honestly way different and harder than reelskin. I think it is a good school to learn how to adapt.
I then choose to go for actual skin on my skin first:
Last pic is like a month old and i am not very happy with the healing as a big part of the right side (left side on the pic) is blown out. This was the first part I tattooed and i think I was too stressed maybe !
I then started tattooing friends, the pics are listed in chronological order:
As you can see my drawing style is made of some thick lines. I tried big round shaders and it seems to work fine, although i am partially unhappy with it because it seems hard to stay perpendicular to the skin to have a nice clean line on both sides, plus after healing it often seem to be less sharp than lines done with big round liners. I heard big liners shred the skin too fast and that would be the main reason to use round shaders, but i cannot seem to find what's true :/ This might still be my biggest interrogation to this day.
Also, i bought a bishop liner and it works great for big lines, i now use the packer for packing black or thin lines.
Any help and constructive comment would be welcome !! I am truly passionate and I think I may have found a job I actually want to do for a living, so I am very dedicated and motivated. I know apprenticeship is the common way but this was not an option for me
Ps: i passed my tattoo hygiene exam in april !Thank you all in advance and I hope to read your comments soon.
Arnaud
