Apprentice Portfolio / Tattoo Artist Portfolio / Tips and Advice 

I'm looking into an apprenticeship, this video is so helpful. Thank you so much!

I would love to see a video where you talk about your beginnings, your artistic journey, how you started with art and what influenced you etc... - i know your early stuff was briefly mentioned here, but I would love to see more and hear your thoughts on it and what it meant at that point in your life etc..

I recently started my apprenticeship at a shop a few months ago. Im surrounded by a few great tattoo artists. I love your videos. If it wasn't for great people like you atrists like myself wouldn't have a better chance to succeed. Thank you.

I just want to say that everything there looked amazing.

I'm so thankful for these videos. Thank you for showing us how you've improved and for sharing your knowledge!

I love your style so much and I loved how you could see how much your work matured during the years

You're so respectful, helpful and pleasant, I wish other tattooists were like you but they're so cocky, rude and disgusting. Thank you for the video! Love your work!

Thank you for being honest and specific , the last video I watched just told me to be myself and nothing else matters.

Such a well put together video and such great tips/examples! And of course I must say this, your art is amazing - so unique!

You made me feel SOOOOO MUCH better about my portfolio. Thank you so much!

Thanks! I'm going to share this with a friend. She wants to apprentice locally. I appreciate your helping us all navigate this field.

Clear and concise. You demonstrated what I was going to do for my portfolio. Thank you for your first hand experience and advice. I'm currently putting my portfolio together to use to aquire an apprenticeship later on the year

super useful and informative as always! thank you so much Anrijs!

Thank you so much

This helped me so much! i have an interview for a full time tattooing course and i wanted to put together a fresh portfolio showing the variety and level of skill in my artwork, and i love your style btw its amazing!

This is really helpful. I’m trying to gain an apprenticeship and currently in the process of building a portfolio. So found this extremely helpful, thank you

you inspire me so much man, I really admire you and your amazing work

Your job is perfect Anrij! I love your tattoos and Monami's!

Amazing. I really apreciate your alternative way, I admire you from your style as much as your art !

Probably the best most concise video I have seen on what a good portfolio should look like. Thank you so much for this information!

my name is Cindy Minx from San Antonio, TX. I've watched every video Anrijs has posted and his videos have made me a better artist. BIG IDOL in my life!!! thank you!

Seriously you are the most genuine person I’ve ever seen, you helped me build my confidence to pursue becoming a tattoo artist. Thank you 🙏💖

💗💗💗 great advice, even tho I think your old portfolios are the most fun & the newspapers behind the drawings look great. I can never get rid of old drawings & I think it's a lovely way to create a personal archive. I just bought some new portfolios books today & am working on updating mine. This was very helpful, especially in regards to simplifying 🙏🏼.

Awesome. Thank you for your honesty. Your portfolios are great.

you are my favorite artist in the world! you work is so awesome! keep the great work! love from Argentina!

Thanks man great video! I am a beginner artist and these kind of videos help a lot!

I'm trying to get my own portfolio started right now, this was very helpful! Thank you☺️

thank you so much !I kept staring at your tattoos they are so beautiful

Thank you for sharing this kind of knowledge, great video, and such a great artwork!

Ive been tattooing a few years now (without givin it the big 1 im a really good drawer ) my work's improving well but im lazy...this vid is the kick up the arse i need...thank you ♥️

I love how you're filming at bold as brass👌🏼 Great work!

Thanks Anrijs, love your work!

this helps me understand the portfolio process so much better thank you!!

Oh shit I just found your channel by chance and realized I already follow you on instagram, I absolutely adore your work dude!

thank you for helping new artists with tips !!! ur videos are really helpful !!! :D

Super helpful, mate ! So inspiring !! 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Really helpful 👍, I'm already working as a tattoo apprentice, but none of of my coworkers mentioned it was a good idea to still have a portfolio that looks 100% clean. I like the way how you presented everything and explained what works and what doesn't. Always huge help from your videos 🙏

Thank you! I've been waiting to see an apprenticeship portfolio example like this!

Your attitude is really nice and positive and the video is really helpful. Thanks a lot. God Bless You

one of the most talented tattooist i have ever seen, your work is phenomenal. i learn alot from your videos, thank you so much for the great videos. one day i hope to get some ink from you ..👌👌👍

Thank you so much! I'm putting together a portfolio to be an apprentice, this was SO incredibly helpful! Thank you!!!

Thanks so much Anrijs.

super helpful! I was unsure how to demonstrate an apprentice portfolio and how different it would be from an art students portfolio. Thanks for the video.

love all ur video man it cover almost everything

Amazing artwork and video! 🦋

your one of the very few humble artist

Out of all tips and advices.. yours helps me the most. Thank you

My dream is to be a tattoo artist, this is by far the most informative video I've seen about getting an apprenticeship. Thank you!

So helpful I’m making my portfolio currently I really hope over the time I really put together a great portfolio this really helps a lot thank you!

Hey Anrijs, this is a very inspiring Video! It brought me to overthink and redesign my Portfolio. Thank you!!

Thank you! That was really helpful.

Portfolio dope, NEWS PAPER BACKGROUND WAS GENIUS

Very great. Great idea that spiral portfolio for convention !

thanks man this is so helpful n nice work on this video too

Thank you Anrijs, i'm tattoo artist from Belgium i work only in guest and convention and your tips are really helpfull as the thing to do a portfolio flat as possible for conventions. I'm tattooer since 3 years but it's only this year that i work more to my style and step by step i search to have the best presentation of what i do, so i search also to improve what i do generally.

Thank you for making this video, was very helpful

Love your channel man. Wondering if you could do a video on lettering and how to advance in it. Thanks again

Nice work and thank you for the tips that's awesome 🤘

Thank you for advice, its very helpful.

this was really helpful! aspiring to do tattooing as a career!

your work looks amazing

Super helpful! Thanks for the video 😃👍

greetings from Spain Anrijs! I want to get an apprenticeship so bad,the only problem about tattoo industry is the ego,i tried once to get an apprenticeship in the local studio and they just laughed and now im insecure about myself,i got a clean portfolio,i dont think my work doesnt worth,ive been tattooing for 3 years now (im 22).I try to improve everyday and do my best..i wish tattooers from now were more like you,just doing what you love and giving advices for people that try hard.Respect your work!!big hug (sorry for the bad english)

He looks like Chester Bennington or am I crazy? xd

Thank you Anrijs! Verry helpfull :)

Awesome work! 👌

Thank you fir the idea master

Thank you so much this is so helpful.

Amazing tips ! thanks

Very very helpfull. Thanks a lot for the tips

I feel motivated thanks man

Love this!!!

Hi ! I want to congratulate you ! Very good instructions! Your designs are awesome! One question: if i have designs with diferent canvas size i have to have diferent size portfolio? Or just adapt each designs to a single size portofolio? Thanks bro

Amazing video thanks

thank you alot that was very helpful!

hey anrijs, love your work! you are really helping to become a good tattoo artist. could you tell me a bit more about, how you are achieving your great tattoo designs (like shown at 3:16)? are you drawing things like this straight out of your head, or are you looking at a photo reference and then drawing something like this on a empty white paper, or are you simply putting your paper on the photo reference and copy the contours and some details, and then finish it in your style? or are your making sketches first and then the full design? whould be nice if you could answer this question, or make a video about your way to create such a design, thank you

Such good advice👍

Thank u so mucho. Such an angel

I want a tattoo from you omg such great work!!

You are lovely and sweet! Thank you so much for the help!

thank you for the tips!

Cool to see Marian Dziędziel on a potfolio! :D

I live in USA and would like an apprenticeship but I’m 50 years old. I like tattooing but starting over and not getting paid for over a year would be impossible. Anyway I like watching your videos, keep up the good work.

thank you that was very helpful

Thank you for your advice

Thank you so much for showing your tips on a good portfolio! I am interested in tattoo art and presenting it well with my other art is ofcourse very important. If you feel inclined, would you mind showing some examples of good flash vs bad flash? How would you advise to learn drawing tattoo designs as tattoo art surely is different in process I can imagine from drawing regular art. Awesome channel, Im subscribe and thank you for sharing your wisdom, it's really inspiring

I absolutely love your work and its my dream to get one of your amazing pieces. Too bad I live in Chicago =(

thanks for this video my girlfriend needed this

Awesome talk!! Keep it up! Would u be able to do a video about position to tattoing..and if back and neck pain can become a problem for some tattoo artists a long the years!??? Cheers!

Great tips thank you

could you please share what you used (markers, pen, paint) to produce the work in your portfolios? thanks

Thanks for this video 😱😍😍

thank you very much was very helpfull

aah, fellow latvian here,, I've recently thought about wanting to get into the tattoo industry and I'm overall enjoying it, although im not the best at drawing so i have a question. Is it better to start off with traditional drawing, sketching or starting off with digital? I can't put my mind on where to start, the case here is that I'm actually just 13, I'm really into skateboarding and I'm exploring new subcultures that i haven't been familiar with. my art style is more of like an gloomy, unnatural mess, some realism in between?,, although i draw whatever comes up in my mind, it usually turns out terrible so I'm trying to figure out where to start. i don't know how to explain it but yeah, that's that. aah, i hope there's some suggestions or something along those lines :]

Thank You! You are awesome :)

At the 3:30 mark what type of marker/paint do you use to get that black fade, I’m drawing on paper and can’t seen to get a smooth fade down

Nice video !!

I see that spawn action figure! dope shit and a good video too!

Do you have any suggestions on what to focus on while learning to draw, how important is learning anatomy, perspective etc when the goal is to became tattoo artist? Is it importatnt at all? Maybe its enough to know basics like forms, shading, and just draw a lot untill it looks good enough to start to learn tattooing?

You are awesome!