All feedback is welcomed

I’m self taught and have been practicing for several months now, here’s some of the work I’ve done.

Frog design is not mine. The rest are.

Thanks in advance!

Used a 05RL and 03RL

Ive been thinking about doing a small tattoo on my outer leg, but i cant seem to get the right position for tattooing my leg, does anyone have any advice on how i can make it easier for myself?

Thank

I am just getting into tattooing, would it be fair if I only ever want to focus on fineline, script tattoos. If, when I want to start tattooing people could I only do finelines? Or should I also learn how to do the other big pieces and shadings even if that’s not what I’d want to specialize in. (I should add that i am only learning for now and have no plans on doing any tattoos on real skin for a long long time)

Do I need to learn all other techniques if I only want to do Finelines.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdLpTdA9/ Please support on TikTok⬆️ if you can… ❤️ or Follow means a lot 🙏 I’m trying out realism again, still don’t have curved mag, can’t wait to get them and start practicing that smooth shading. What do y’all think 🤔

Sou muito iniciante em tattoo, comecei há apenas 1 mês. Tinha apenas treinado em pele artificial e na minha própria pele. Nunca tinha feito preenchimento, ainda tenho muito a aprender e praticar , mas acho que estou no bom caminho 😉

So alootttaa critiques were thrown my way after the car design I practiced, so I have been busy busy busy, doodling when I can, Working on straight line practice in my notebooks and literally any piece of paper I’m given 😭😭, Honing in on my basic shape control (triangles, circles, hearts, spirals) And then just practicing once to twice a week and really getting my feel for my machine! (Still definitely not ready for real skin, but hopefully with lotsssss!!! of more practice i’ll do try a small one on myself and see how I’m doing afterwards)

Ive now got two months under my belt but this one was done in my first week with clients Used a 7rl for this lil dude

The skin looks chewed in spots because it is. This skin is a bitch for taking ink so I really had to go at it. I do also have some reelskin so I have been able to practice packing without damaging the skin. Just didn’t want to waste this skin and I figure it can at least help build muscle memory with lines.

How close is this to shop quality?

Due to life happening I haven't been able to tattoo on real skin in over a year. I finally got back to practicing on fake skin, and today was the first time I tattooed on real skin again. This is maybe my 10th tattoo on real skin in total so far. So: I'm aware that my lines are shaky and some parts look a lil messy, I'm aware and trying to improve that. But what I'm really scared about is that I hammered lots of blowouts in there? It might be stencil but I'm not sure, I've been staring at it waaay too long. Please help :')

Stencil didn’t wanna leave the premises so it’s slightly edited to minimalise it :,)

The skulls were done with a 7RL, 9RS, and 3RL all 12 gauge And the second photo were all done with a 3RL I hate smaller needles because I know smaller needles show your mistakes more which is the point. To see how much I need to work on steadiness and try and get those lines saturated lol

I just wanna start off by saying I am currently a tattoo artist who owns my very own studio where I’m able to tattoo whatever and whenever I choose and it’s amazing to have gotten to this point.

My studio is named Snake Way Tattoo in Dayton OH. Obviously I love doing anime work but all throughout school I had a fine arts background and thought of realism being “the ultimate art form” that shows the most skill, and I’m glad I thought that way because it allowed me to recognize how important the “attention to detail” is in any artwork you create.

The kid goku in the first photo was my first attempt ever on fake skin and everything went wrong! Didn’t have a stencil printer yet and used a gel pen to sketch the design on 😂 the link was the next day when my stencil printer came in, but I didn’t let it dry so I had to free hand the whole right side of the body. And trunks was a few days later when i realized i needed to let the design dry so it wouldn’t wipe away

From there I practiced for over 6 months before tattooing anyone and believe me i had people BEGGING to get tattooed,, but stay strong get your fundamentals down before tattooing a single person

The very first tattoo I did on human skin (that wasn’t myself) was the inuyasha/kagome piece on my fiancè, after that is one of the first pieces I was very proud of (skull and roses) fresh and healed photos of that piece

Everything after is the stuff I currently like to tattoo and what a lot of my work consists of. I’m usually doing anime/videogames/realism/fineline and I’m happy! ☺️

Idk I guess this post is just to let the super beginners know it’s possible to get to a place where you’re comfortable and happy but still learning and ever progressing at the craft. Please don’t ever let money be the motivator! The money will come when people see your work, how good it is, and how much YOU care about doing the work

Again I’m artimaritattoos and my studio is Snake Way Tattoo in Dayton OH. Thanks for looking and reading 🙏✨

I've received a lot of comments and feedback to stop and learn to draw etc etc. This is just under 2 weeks in and I'm pleased by the pace of progress. Still far from perfect but it's been fun so far. To all other beginners, buy decent practice skins and upgrade from the ink and needles supplied in the cheap kits. Trace a lot also.

So, I've got two tattoos but ones I got younger when I was drunk. I like them though fortunately and had planned to get them eventually.

Anyway, I'm older now, years later and I have a more refined taste of what I would like, couple pieces in different places, have tried them using temp tattoos too lol.

So I want to go through with some this year.

Wondering what specifics you look for when getting a tattoo? (As before, as said, I was drunk on holiday so to me it didn't even matter lol)

Is cost per hour? Anything I should be adamant on etc?

What colors should I get with a $150 limit