How to Start Practicing Properly- Tattoo University

Nick Duran is here with Tattoo University and today I'm going to talk about the right way to

start

tattoo

ing. There is a wrong way to the right way. Some of you just want to watch videos with people getting

tattoo

s and if I did, I would be like every channel out there, they show you how to tattoo, but they don't teach you how to get tattooed. The thing is, if you're watching those videos and you're trying to learn advanced techniques but you don't master the basics, you will. You'll never be able to tattoo like the professionals and that's not something you can just pick up a tattoo machine and

start

doing.

You can imitate it but you won't succeed because you don't know which is the right machine to use. you know how to adjust your machines you don't know the proper needle settings you need a solid foundation you need the groundwork to be able to do those tattoos eventually i will show you how to tattoo but i want to make sure you have First, do the groundwork so everything makes sense once that you get to that point, so the worst thing you can do is go out, buy a tattoo kit, put together that tattoo machine and start tattooing someone you don't want to start tattooing people. and I hope you get better the more you tattoo people, there are steps you need to take before you get to that point.

The reason it's such a bad idea is that a lot of your business comes from word of mouth, it comes from people seeing your tattoos and asking that client where they got their tattoos from, so that will either help you or hurt you. If you're putting bad tattoos out there, people aren't going to say, hey, go with this guy who does bad tattoos, they'll see it. those tattoos and they're going to ask you where you got them from so they don't come to you and get a bad tattoo of you. I would say that almost one hundred percent of the business I do is through the word. from the mouth and through the tattoos that people see on other clients and asked them where they came from and if you're doing a good job you'll get more business so you don't want bad tattoos floating around.

Someone may say that this bad tattoo came from you and if you are in the beginning stages of tattooing you are not going to make tattoos good enough to get a lot of business, another problem I see a lot. is that people start tattooing and have no experience in art so you should know that our experience equals bad tattoos, if you don't know what looks good you won't know what a good tattoo looks like and you might think it looks good but When other people look at it, they will see the flaws in that tattoo, especially if it is someone who has experience in art and knows what it should look like.

Before you put a needle into someone's skin, you need to focus on how to do flash work. maybe buy some watercolor paints, some markers, take a couple of college art courses or watch a bunch of YouTube videos and read a bunch of books and just study art on your own before you start doing it on people. Tattoos are like works of art, there is an aesthetic and if it doesn't have a good aesthetic people aren't going to like it and until you have that artistic experience you won't know what it is, you might think you know it looks good, but you don't. you are losing. that training that allows you to know what looks good and what doesn't, so if you are dying to tattoo someone, get a tattoo and do it in a place where not many people will see it and where you can cover it up.

If necessary, not everyone believes in self-tattoos because it is a little more difficult and some people do not have the pain tolerance necessary to get a tattoo, but I think that self-tattoos are a good tool to learn how to tattoo and, if you are going to ruin someone, then you should do it yourself and not do it to other people. A good tool is to have a mentor during this process and, if you don't have one in person, you can use the Internet. on Facebook pages like Tattoo University Hands, where a lot of tattoo artists go to that page and they can leave comments, they can give you advice, you can post your tattoos and see what people think about them, and if you post your tattoos, you get a lot of them. of negative comments that may tell you that you are not ready to tattoo other people yet and that you may need to take a step back and rethink things and practice a little more before you start tattooing other people again when you yourself are tattooing yourself. one way to do it, you don't want to get tattooed in difficult places, getting a tattoo on your arm is doable, but it won't turn out well because you need to stretch and on your own arm you need two hands to stretch and you can't do that. your own arm so you can get a decent tattoo with it, but after a while you will see that it is not entirely solid and will fade because you are not stretching well, usually your calf or thighs are a good area for you. get a tattoo and don't get a whole side piece or sleeve in one go.

You want to start by simply

practicing

in your line of work. You can find a cartoon character that is really good. Something with a bold outline. Something simple. You don't want to start. Come out with something really technical, the first thing you need to do is work with the line. Focus on the line. Don't focus on anything else. Get a coating machine. Find out how to tune it correctly. Practice lining until your line work is flawless. Once this is done, you have these tattoos with the full line, but they can be colored, then you go to the packaging color and then after you lower the packaging color, you go to shading and then you would go to mix the colors that you get. a little more complicated as you go, so don't take up your entire leg with your first tattoo.

Create a plan with a few tattoos that you can build almost like a sleeve and start simple and just focus on one thing at a time. The problem I see is that people try to figure everything out at once instead of figuring out one thing, understanding it and then moving on to the next thing, so the first thing you should do is, if you're getting tattooed, focus on the line work and get that line done and after each tattoo, show it to someone who knows what they're doing and ask them what's wrong with this tattoo or how can I improve this tattoo posted online.

You will receive a lot of negative comments from people, but you will receive a lot of positive comments from people. You will meet someone like me who will criticize that tattoo in a positive way. I won't give you negative feedback. I'll just tell you that you need it. adjusting your machine or your deaths is not right, you know I will give you positive feedback, so you need to find those people who are willing to give you positive feedback, you know I can look at a tube and see what is wrong. with it and see what you are doing wrong while you are tattooing and all I have to do is look at the finished product of that tattoo, so if you are learning to tattoo, you should show these tattoos to someone who you need.

Show them to someone who can look at tattoos and tell you what you're doing wrong so you can work on it and fix it.