Yes please! This is my biggest problem knowing what needles to buy and when to use them. I've accidentally bought the same needles twice going off of pics online because idk what sizes are what. 🤦♀️needless to say my line work is getting pretty good! 😅
I'm a 19 year old artist looking into possibly going into tattooing because my original plan career didn't work out. All of your videos are super informational and thank you for that.
@@queendiamond770 I was going for animation. It was my dream job since I was a kid, but after going to college during Covid and pretty much forced to flunk/drop out, I realized it might not be the best career plan.
@@davidowen28 Aw I've been through a similar experience! My mom wanted me to get a degree first as a sort of backup plan but I ended up dropping off of university for similar reasons and decided not to waste any more time and money
I love that you are progressive with tattooing, you use and recommend what works best and its so refreshing. Its funny how many tattoo artists get so worked up by the idea of a wireless power supply or not starting out on a coil machine.
Been drawing for some time, wanted to try my hand at tattooing (fake skin of course I’m not gonna go to real skin for a while unless it’s my own) and these videos have been helping me out a lot for just research purposes in general. Just ordered my stuff (just about everything on this list others I can get at my local store) and I just wanted to say thank you for any and all help👍🏻
I wish you the best of luck Christopher and your more then welcome my friend! Im glad I could help, keep working hard at it and be patient as you go. 🤘🤘
Hey what’s up man . Did you eventually get into tatting ? Let me know . I need inspo to start . I’m in a bad part of life and need to change for the better 😔
Thanks for all the inspiration dude! Tattooing is my dream job, and sadly I realized that as 23 year old.. I wish I got that motivation earlier, but I guess it's not too late to start! I hope that one day, I will become great tattoo artist. Much love, cheers!
My daughter decided today she wants to get a machine and start learning, I have a lot of work done and in the past did some tattoos on individuals for commissary bc fk it why not. I have a good friend that does all my work at his shop that I used to spend a lot of time at helping him out and just fkn around watching him work all night so I have some knowledge from him. Your comment is exactly why I'm worried about getting her interested/started early on a career path she can be excited about everyday and has passion in doing that can support her financially. She's very artistic and loves to draw, constantly improving and teaching herself. Like her dad she has my off the wall random free spiritedness and little weirdness(cool weird) to her. Loves being solo doing her own thing and doesn't want a lot of friends, and super ridiculously intelligent but unfortunately a blonde through and through lacking common damn sense (we're working on that). Can't decide what to buy to get her started that isn't expensive high end but is a good machine for her to learn with. Also, I'm worried about the whole tattoo artist community and their thing with apprenticeship and shunning new aspiring career artists having already learned and owning rigs as well as having already put out work previously before finishing apprenticeship and being bought their first machine by their journeyman. But I'll be mother fked if that is going to hold back her potential and possible career should she decide to get into doing it seriously later on when she turns 18. She's 12 by the way.
@@Sevatar_VIIIth I say if you want her good, buy it. Buy the cheapest rotary first and if you see that she's getting into it , get her some better equipment. If she starts practicing that young, in 10 years she will be a very , very successful artist and will do what she loves for enormous amounts of money. You will basically build her perfect life if you support her trough her struggle with that. I wish the best to your family !
Finally taking the step to start. I have been drawing since I was ten. Thank you for all these videos. You are a wonderful teacher (I can see why you are going to start courses). I hope to gain the skills I need to eventually make this into a legit business for myself and gain independence.
Really happy I stumbled across your videos. I've been fighting with my coil machines and was starting to get pretty disheartening. The pen machines seem like such a great option. It's nice to see someone recommending them for a beginner. Thank you for giving me the inspiration to keep going!
Thank you for all the work youhave done to teach your craft. I have recently started working on my own equipment and the information you give has given me the confidence to learn. I finally did my first sitting on myself as if I can't work my own skin I can't ask anyone else to do it. Thank you for your time and your service!
Iv been wanting to tattoo for a long time but I’m not much of an artist at this point. Gotta start somewhere. It’s nice that there are a lot of budget machines and kits out there if your just getting your toes wet so you don’t have to break the bank to see if tattooing is something you really want to do.
Hey, just got my first coil kit 2 days ago and didn't have a bunch of luck doing lines on fake skin!! If you get a machine, you better have some balls and give yourself something! Took a couple days and looks bad, but to me it looks great for first shot!!
Thats awesome to hear Joyce glad the channel is clear and concise. And im glad its been able to help you out. Thank you for the support Joyce much appreciated!🤘🙏
i just got mine today i need to order some fake skin and practice alot. i mostly got it to do a few touchups of mine and if my family needed any done. there hardly any tattoo shops in my area maybe when i move ill try to fit myself in someones shop. thats when i get better ofc
Once again, a very informative and educational video, thanks Dave. You are an inspiration to me, and I'm sure to many many others. Keep them coming, and Peace ☮️✌️
I started on a coil and they can be so finicky! I always recomend starting with a pen and battery for ease of use too but I always say cheyenne cartridges are best 👌 also with the eternal ink you wanna get some "keep it wet". You are also gonna need a good light of some kind, a ring light or a headlamp ♡
I agree coils can be tricky to start on if you dont have someone there to help guid you along with it. And great points with the "Keep it wet" and the need for some decent lighting. Thank you Mandii always great to hear from you. Keep being awesome and KEEP ROCKING!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Best cartridges are definitely kwadron from my experience.. magic moon are also good.. avoid Cheyenne personally had lots of issues with cartridges.. great machines though
Ive learned some hard lessons u can hanga shelf with a flat head screw driver but its much easier if ya use a level and drill gotta have rhe right tools for the job
You need to try the product stencil honey once you try it you never use stencil stuff or anything els the lines are so purple and it doesn’t wipe off during the tattoo
I love your videos. Learning from you has helped me with opening my own shop, I’m still pretty new and only do tattoos for friends and family who are supporting me! Thank you for posting videos! Tattoo artists in my community are stuck up and refuse to take apprentices and look down upon people who are trying to learn. You’ve helped me a lot!!
Thanks for the videos homie. They’ve really helped me get started over the past couple months. Couple more inches an youll have that beard to my length lol 🤘🤘
Dave! hows life brother? good to see ya rockin on my friend. good info here, clean and concise flow too. From A to Z you cruised through the workflow like a champion. love it. I have been super busy with tattoo work lately myself and now have a full blow studio in my house. everything the shops have i now have and it feels great to be a private artist now. i learned alot from you and still stalk your instagram page for your new works De arte. i wish you all the best bud. keep kickin ass and taking names!!!!
Thank you so much Dave really appreciate you brother!! And CONGRATS to YOU man!! I'm happy to hear you got the personal shop up and running. Its such a great feeling to see all the hard work you put into this pay off when you sit down in your own shop/dedicated area and do what you love. Keep up the AWESOME work brother!! And i mean with a name like Dave how you can you go wrong lol. Rock on!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I know.... im not sure what to do with it at this point..... Do I cut it, let it grow more, hmmm idk I guess ill have to do something with it sooner then later.
Where do you get your Eternal tattoo ink? Also, thank you so much for these videos! I've learned more from your videos than I have from my actual teacher. Keep doing what you're doing, you're helping a lot of us new artists! Oorah!
Simper fi brother, thanks for all your content. I am in the process of getting back in to tattooing after more than 10 years and a lot is the same but a lot has changed as well. I am learning and re learning tons from your videos. Thank you and keep them coming.
It's so cool to see you inspire a lot of people, I'm just so proud of what you've accomplished. I hope someday I could become as good as you are at inspiring people. Keep it up, you're biggest fan ReLLiK!
I love using my tatt pen, its so easy to use. My wife bought me a coil machine at first but I didn't like it at all. With all the wires and a foot peddle to boot, I felt like I was trying to rub my tummy & pat my head at the same time! Within a month of using the pen, I was ready to put pen to my own skin. Now I have a beautiful sleeve, on my arm.......just kidding, I'm not that great yet! 🤣
HAHA thats funny smoke cause I feel ya.. All the wires and what not just start to feel constricting after a while so wireless it is for me. And Yes the tattoo pen makes things much easier in my opinion specially when getting started. Thanks so much Smoke always do appreciate the support brother! Keep at it and Keep Rocking!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Omg this has helped me so much, I’m happy to say that with the help of your videos, my mentor has now allowed me to begin tattooing, I cannot thank you enough for how much you’ve helped me, hopefully one day I can meet you 🤘🙏
Thank you so much for your videos. I already have everything I need but you helped me find a wireless power supply for my Cheyenne machine. I’m learning how to tattoo and your channel is so helpful. I’m basically your apprentice 😂🤣
Hey brother I have followed you for a year and a half I'd say maybe more. I support this channel as well as your Facebook. I always thought you were a stand up dude! In saying that I mean you seem very honest. I respect that! So my question for this video is about the cartridges I really need an honest opinion on those Solong carts. I struggle with finding cartridges at a reasonable price that I like or that are made well. I really like DaVinci magnums but they're kind of pricey. As far as cartridges like these I've tried Rhien carts and Stigma carts. The stigma carts were total junk the Rhien carts weren't bad but they're not DaVinci quality or Kwadron quality. Which I don't expect them to be. Like I say it's hard to find quality at a reasonable price after my experience with stigma. So if you could just give me your honest opinion on the cartridges from this video and if you could compare them to another brand cartridge would be so awesome. As always much respect brother keep rocking! Oh by the way as I mentioned that support your Facebook as well your artwork just keeps getting better and better totally awesome! Seeing some of those pictures now I wonder if you were using those Solong carts?!
Hi! I’m trying to learn tattoo on my own and I noticed that when you tattoo on ppl, you have to use ointment as you go along(to moisturize the skin i think?). But what are the purpose of green soap+distilled water for? Is it just for to clean ink while tattooing? And also you mentioned that you have another squeeze bottle for just water itself. Is it distilled water or just regular water, and what’s the purpose of the water? So there are three things to spray/rub during the tattoo session? Ointment, water, green soap+water? Sorry for so many questions but i get so confused😭 thank you!!
Love your videos! I'm in the process of creating drawings for a tattoo portfolio to get an apprenticeship. My style is geometric, dotwork, and mandalas. I've been told coil machines are best for this? But coil machines have a lot of maintenance and are considered antiques? lol thoughts? The newer machines will be just as good for my style? Thanks for all your helpful videos! ❤️
Cheers for the info brother, as said in 1 of ur older vids, IVE Leant more from 6 of ur vids than I did years ago when I wanted to apprentice, much appreciated, keep up the good work and once again, CHEERS
I love your videos they have helped me dramatically with my tattoo journey but unfortunately I have to disagree about the wireless and the machine for noobs because with so many options out there and so many things that you need to focus on at any given moment it can be overwhelming when an artist first starts out and sometimes artist are on an extreme budget but the reason i would recommend a coil over let's say a cheap Chinese rotary is sometimes the machine does not retract the needle all the way back into the cartridge but coils do no matter what unless you have the machine set wrong of course so coils are safer and being bound by a cord subconsciously always forces the artist to be aware of the machine in theory it cuts way down the likelihood of an accidental needle poke plus it also is never a bad idea in my opinion to know the history of tattooing and have the ability to fix or change a machine that will last literally forever with very little maintenance but again this is just my opinion now as for ink each artist is different so I would recommend trying different inks out because what might work for one artist may not work for another because ink flows at different rates so the ink just like hand speed and voltage depends on the artist but that is why I always recommend instead of buying an ink kit buy individual smaller bottles when you first start out so you can see what works best for you now as for literally everything else I agree with spot on!
I started back in January and you're the one I go to everything for videos. Done several on myself and family and I gotta say your advise comes in handy every time.
Great video brother!!! Mad I missed this one when it posted. Question if I can? I've always used mom'z and radiant for black and color. Have you used mom'z? And if so do you see a difference in eternal or momz... Anyway as always great vid and glad to see I'm not the only one using cavicide
I have most of that stuff in an amazon cart waiting for me to bite the bullet. I've been just making do with regular stuff and an abundance of caution (I don't tattoo other people, just myself). The tattoo pen is new to me, and I'm working on my confidence.
It took a while but I'm happy with my set up for now, it's not all expensive but it's got me through a a few tattoos...the one issue I have the Q2 is when loading the cartridge, it isn't always smooth going...I had a near poke miss because of it...as long as you're wary of that...it's all good. Love this video, very thorough!
I agree with you on the needle thing and I seem to have the same issue with the Wand shader. ITs not crazy or anything just have to take an extra second or two to make sure everything is good. Thanks Wolfgang really appreciate the support my friend and Keep ROcking!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
@@ArtSomething that's interesting to know you have the similar issue with the wand shader...can you help me on this specific issue...backgrounds - I want to try and achieve that airbrushed effect behind a rose for instance...I use a 27cm bugpin with a light wash but it always comes out blotchy and uneven, the distance of the greywash fade is uneven around the central piece, how do I solve this? If you can do a video on it would appreciate it!
I have a Set basic questions and really didn't find answers googling ... How do you preserve the colours from spoiling ? Or to get contaminated ? How long can I keep them in the shelf and safely use them once they are open ? Thank you in advance
I wouldnt recommend getting a "Kit" as its sorta a waste of money as the products are super cheap and you will find yourself buying all the stuff separately to get anything decent. with that said this video is pretty much my recommendation for anyone wanting to get into tattooing.
