FW Acrylic Ink Tattoo Flash Watercolour Illustration Tutorial 

Ollie Keable Designs Ace, Yeah i should try that more often!

James Fielding Cool i would like to see acrylics mixed with copics! I've only ever tried using pro markers. Markers get expensive fast when you want to get a few colours haha. What do you think of the Hydrus and Syncromatic ones? Ive never tried them before.

I only use grey Copics because it's convenient to have accurate gray tones and you only need a few of them (I have N1, N3, N5, N7 and N9 and I can get a pretty good gradiation). The alcohol in the ink dissolves the shellac used in normal india ink so it's really helpful to have the FW. I bought two empty Copics and filled them with black ink: One is Speedball Super Black, which is cheaper, and one is the FW, which is more expensive. It's a very convenient marker system. When I get around to buying Radian watercolors I think I'll put them in empty Copics as well for convenience. The Hydrus and Synchromatic are nice. I have the first Hydrus set and it's literally just high quality pigments in a liquid suspension. They're very concentrated so if you work with, say, Ultramarine right out of the bottle you will get a very dark and opaque blue. But if you add water it becomes lighter and more transparent. The colors are very vibrant and because they're composed of a single pigment rather then formulated dyes they're a little more stable when you work with them and they're also totally permanent and lightfast. I haven't used the Radiant colors yet so I can't compare but the Synchromatic seem similar. I have #2 Cadmium, #27 Magenta and #39 Cerulean. I chose these colors because they're Process Yellow, Magenta and Cyan and I wanted to experiment with that gamut to try and replicate the look of Technicolor film, as well as the 4-colour look of vintage comic books. These behave the same way I've seen the Radiants behave: Not water resistant at all (which is helpful for blending; if you don't work fast with the Hydrus it will stain the paper and leave darker marks), bright clear 100% transparent colors. I only just got these recently and I haven't done a lot of experimenting yet. One thing I've noticed is that by mixing the #2 and the #27 I get a very nice bright scarlet red, while with Hydrus it's a little more difficult to get a red that doesn't skew pink.

James Fielding Ah thats cool, you can fill copics up with inks? Hydrus sounds good being permanent and how they are really strong pigments, you got to be confident messing around with those permanent inks haha i like the leeway i get from them not being waterproof and being able to play around with them more. Lightfast tho thats a good quality to have don't have to worry about them fading. Yeah guess they all have there own advantages. The Technicolor film idea sounds really interesting you done much with it yet?

michael walsh Yeah i think i know what you mean, i try to just use a little paint and not let to much go in the water so it doesn't all spread into it, i do think you got to work it back and forth on itself a little more so it doesn't just draw out quick like you said. They also can leave marks if they dry a little whilst trying to work with them because they dry pretty much permanent . Yeah ill do another video on them, thinking of drawing some flash then painting it with a voice over of how im going about it, ill use some FW acrylics to colour them with!

thanks a million Tom for the reply and looking forward to your next tutorial..

Diego Delfino Ace, I think Ecoline are my favourite brand, they also got some really cool vibrate colours and absolutely love the dark brown/yellows they do. You ever tried the talens drawing inks?

Tom Smith never tried Talens. Where I live atm I never had a chance to find them. So far I worked with Dr Martens Hydrus series (too muddy and opaque for me), Waverly watercolors (beautiful tones but I cannot get a single shade out of them even pre wetting the paper), Ecoline and Windsor and Newton India ink for my blacks. I want to try the FW black instead of the India ink, so far the best one I ever used is Dr. Martens Black Star Matte, you can lay down large block area without worrying about shining marks at all. I added in instagram my account is Pain1666. Cheers

Diego Delfino Yeah i seen people using the hydrus and looked almost a little muddy like you said. Waverly ones i was thinking of trying them out seen a few people go on about them in the past. I have always just used winsor and newton because its easy to get hold of and works for me, ahh yeah see i never really noticed this before people started pointing it out, is it something to do with the shellac in the paint? might give that martens black star matte a go, FW acrylics does look a little bolder and not as washed out as the winsor and newton indian ink but i think you get smoother gradations with indian ink but both are fun to use. I don't use instagram anymore, googled your username tho, your stuff is super nice! lovely elegant girls!

bigdaddyrichter Click on this link to see how i paint them ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2crLSBVuTeY.html Mainly use Dr.Ph.Martin's Saddle Brown 13a, but i also like Dr.Ph.Martin's Tobbacco Brown (that might work better for dead people and skulls tho haha) but really when comes down to i would just mix a nice brown/yellowish colour and it works. I don't really tend to use a pink flesh tone i always prefer something a bit darker with more contrast. saying that maybe i should try something like that out to mix things up! hope that helps

what liquid are you laying down before you ink you never seem to mention it

The Asparagus Not Quite sure if i get what you mean. Do you mean can you use FW acrylics to outline then paint over the top of it? or something else?

I guess he refer to the fact that FW might be a bit opaque and the black of your outlines below will look "washed out" after apply them

Diego Delfino yes thats what i mean. I understand i could just stay away from the lines as if i were tattooing.

This happens to me too sometimes did u ever figure out how to fix it?

same here

Technically, weren't Sailor Jerry and his predecessors mostly white, and now dead? They were influenced by the Japanese tattoo artists (and maybe tattoo artists from other countries) though. I hear you though, Kuro. You won't see much tattoo flash in university arts classes. Lots of white artists remain unrecognized, as is the case with artists of other races.

Ricardo Rodriguez I also use winsor and newton. Try using more water or you could even dilute the ink by mixing it with some water, this will make the black ink weaker and a more grey tone. In this video all i used was water to fade the ink out.