Color Theory Ink Mixing for Tattoo Artists 

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Borrowed Particles what ink did you use?

hey would you please tell me what you think would happen to a sea green or light green tattoo if you try to cover it up with a light brown.... i'll subscribe :)

daniel Aj It will be somewhere between a lighter brown and an olive green. If it’s on the green side, just do a second session with a slightly darker brown.

@@KaydenDiGiovanni hmm... i see you'r in texas i would have booked at ur shop... do you have an instagram ?

Matan Lalo Yeah, their yellow is slightly orange. Not like a canary yellow.

me too😂

Same

But I'm colored blind

I see gold

S.Z. Z. Thank you! I’m glad that it helped!

Would you please tell me something about teqnike? Is it possible for you in a few word to say the difference between shading(b&g) and colour work? I'm tattooing only in b&g at the moment..flicking and brushing is my style..never worked with circular motions..is it a must have to work in cicular motions? Is it better to ride the tube for accurate colour packing?what do you think? Thankfull greetings from berlin,sir :)

I also looked at your rose tattoo video..i think i can work the same like my b&g style with colours.. I'm layering my values i b&g like you do it with colour.. Maybe i have to run faster because of the thicker inks.. ?

S.Z. Z. The big difference is the skin showing though on a B&G piece, means that your shading has to be super smooth. So I actually slow down a lot for black and gray. Both to slowly concentrate on every value, but also to not have the skin turn super red. If you tattoo with opaque grays, then there is no difference at all in technique from a color tattoo. Slow down, add a few drops of white to your gray wash caps, use bug pin mags, and a machine with a short stroke, and you should have smooth black and gray if you are careful and consider every hand movement.

Ok thanks you very much..that will help me a lot,i will give it a try. I also repeat your colour theory for practising,that saves me a lot of money ;) I'm always looking for different ways to archieve my goals..i think most of the tattoo artist fuck up the skin very badly with their circular deep motions,thats why i stayed away from colour work at the beginning.. But layering like you said is exactly my drawing style with coloured pencils i will practise it. :)

MeuSkyDrive Hey that’s great, I’m glad to help!

Michael Myers 2 answers. Not necessarily. And maybe a little bit. Generally when putting a darker pigment over a lighter one, the darker will prevail. But under close examination, it would probably be more purple than it would have been naturally. The opposite is more true... if you tattooed an area bright blue, and then blended a layer of pink on top of it, it would be much more purple. But as a rule, if you are shooting for purple, mix the right color in your cap. These colors blending in the skin are good to consider when doing a cover up though. Trying to cover a pink tattoo with blue, you will end up with a pretty blue tattoo. Trying to cover a blue tattoo with pink, you would end up with a pretty purple tattoo.

Don Bonafide Haha! Yeah. You are the only person to notice that so far!

sheila manoe There are 2 ways, depending on the look that you are going for. Add a tiny bit of dark green, or a really tiny amount of black to your red.

@@KaydenDiGiovanni thank you! I appreciate it

Add some navy blue to Make it a dark maroon

@@miunya how to make skin colored ink?I'm mixed race

don bod Nice.

i was gonna say spearmint but tennis ball works too

DreamDiaryTV Thats am easy way to teach color mixing. And an easy way to think about it at first. But once you understand it, then that process is wasting time. It’s a learning method. For example. You want to make Red Orange. Let’s pretend it’s 1 drop of red to 10 drops of yellow to get orange. Then you add a half drop of red to the orange to make Red Orange. So once you understand that, you would just add 1.5 drops to the 10 drops of yellow.

Borrowed Particles oh, excellent ok thx 😁 u get some great colors in ur vid, its my fave on color mixing ive found

Keyvan Goodarzi Alla Prima.

Borrowed Particles thanks 🙏🏻

Are they really pure hues? I mean the red has no blue or yellow? Or blue is has no green in it? The yellow seems has a bit red( orange) ????? I need real pure 3 primaries please help

Keyvan Goodarzi That’s a question for the manufacturer.

how mix Bronze color

Jeremy Wullaert Thanks man!

Hahahaha! Yeah.

It's a single needle that he is using to mix the ink pigments. He made mention of it in the beginning of the video.