How To Tattoo Choosing The Correct Needles For Lining & Shading! + Do Not Make This Mistake!!! 

It still amazes me that even though I’ve been tattooing for over 15 years, I can still learn stuff from others. Great videos my man.

I always knew how to draw but never tattooed. Which is why I’m here. Staying down till I come up

My "go to" needles are 5,7,9RL for thin, standard and thick lines 3RL for tiny details 7,11CM shading and color packing large areas and 9,13RS for shading and colour packing tight corners

Fantastic work man I watched your videos for 2 hours and the second day my tattooing just changed..clean one pass lines..knew how to tune it right..hit the right depth at first try..treasure for beginner who wants to start tattooing on the next level please keep going!! More on needles and tehnique for packing shading etc!! Big thanks

not only is your explaining on point for someone who is a beginner but the effort in this video to make sure we understand is a breath of fresh air, thank you so much!!!!

This was a lot of help I’m glad there are videos on RU-vid to help beginners who are learning how to tattoos understand the basics

You are an absolute breath of fresh air, my man. Thank you for these fantastic videos, mate. Proper quality! Much love.

I love the tip use the needles as a paint brush cause when I first started all I had was 3RLs and I wanted to do a thicker lines and started from the start using 9RS for line work so thank you for reinforcing that you can use different needles for different things and by the way great videos

Love this video it actually let me know that I'm doing the right thing but it seems like I understand this video only because of my experience in tattooing off and on love the way you broke down the needle groups and how you compared them to paint brushes boy I made a bunch of mistakes using the wrong needles at times but now I know I'm ready

I'm apprenticing right now and I can honestly say I learned a shit ton of information from this video (and actually retained it)! Thank you so, so much!!!

This is the only video on this topic that matters. Honestly, nobody else explained it like this.

I been looking up videos for a few hours and you just covered what I needed to know in one video 🙏🏽

Two minutes in and this is already the most thorough and informative video on this subject ive seen . thank you so much

So much more informative in an example way than anything ive found on you tube so far... Thank you!

Most straight forward and informative needle choice video I’ve seen. Good job!

Thanks jono. My portrait work improved after watching this video and give me a few new ideas or reminder of old ideas that worked in the past

Finally somebody explaining which needles to use🔥🔥🔥

Dude… 10 min video and you answered a plethora of questions I’ve had since I purchased my first machine. Thank you! #subscribed

Third time coming back to this video lol big help on them liners and how big to go

This single video cleared up so much confusion for me, thank you!

Love the descriptions, I’ll definitely watch this a few more times to really help all the info sink in to better understand. Thank you!

This videos was very informative, the most informative I’ve come across. By far the video that helped me exactly how I needed to be

straight to the point, thank you! So simple when you know it

I appreciate this video so much as I still need practice on needle sizes and what there used for and how to use them so your help has helped me out a huge amount so thank you

I never leave comments but this video was phenomenal!! Thanks man 🙏🏻

Awesome as always. 👍🏼 Would love it if you could make a video about hygiene. How to clean the tattoo grip after tattooing, use of different chemicals for the right job etc.

Ty! Just learning info to get started soon. Always been into art. Been looking for vids on variety of things, and this was great!

Finally i understand the needels. Thank you so much for your usefull video!!!

I self taught tattooist learned from practicing on my self never really seen videos like this never been in a studio. Although on little quiz at the end was glad to know your selection of needles were very similar to my style minus the script where I would have used 03, 07 and the 09 rl mainly just because that is what worked for me over the years awesome man video was dope. I took a long break from tatto when went back to graduate software development which was career change but since graduation and find jobs are not as available as was once made out I returning to my tattooing because I was good at my tattooing and really just wanted a career change. Tho with that not working out and being left looking for work for so long now I have ultimately decided that I should have just continued my tattooing passion perhaps I should just went and done an art degree lol.

Just got my first set linervand shader and started practicing on myself Getting better

seeing unus annus in the background of the intro almost made me cry :') also good video! i learned stuff good!

Thank you, you are a really helpful and informative teacher! Much appreciated Jono :)

love you dude, you explained so well! the visuals helped me understand WWAAAAYYYYYY better even with the whole exercise illuminati tattoo design thing and quizzes, need more fo those

That's wass I appreciate this I been drawing for a 17 years now I'm 28 made up a tattoo gun at 13 tried n gave up now picking it up now needed this video for all these new types of guns I gotta stigma that takes these needles

Very good work.. concise, filled with info.. short.. and you took the time to make illustrations to translate things.. like when explaining the make up of the needles. you gave all the clues needed. in 11 minutes (others take 30 minutes plus).. Thanks .. i liked and subscribed u da man.!!!!

I'm Finally Home!! They you for this video!! Best Breakdown 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😊

Awesome video! Simple and clear explanation! Awesome quiz and examples! Thank you bro! Great job!

What an awesome, informative video. Nice energy too. Really there to help. It makes me think. How lucky we are, who starting into tattooing nowadays comparing to those way before.... We just have to come here to watch few videos & practice. I'm so grateful for it. Keep up the good work. Blessings Brother.

Thank you for all the great videos, I appreciate all the knowledge that you share! Your time and effort does is greatly appreciated, keep up the great work!

This is such a brilliant video! Thank you!!

Love this! types of needle for different jobs.

You’re like the ultimate tattoo teacher id love to have hahahah very nice and simple thanks mate

This is actually very educational. Thaaaaanksss!!

Love all your videos dude!!! Very well explained. Keep up the great work!!

Great vid Jono, thanks bro.

doing spmu and stumbled upon this learning needles. might be the only instructional video i didnt make 2x speed. lol.packed and informative. subscribing!

Thank you for the info ...love all your video s helped take my tattoos to the next level could u do a vide about defrents between inks

I was a tattoo artist for 10 years but in 2012 I went back to school and got into software engineering, still doing a tattoo here and there on family or friends. I need some extra cash after a recent divorce so part time firing the machine back up, My kit is old and needles now expired so am re-upping my stock and found all sorts of terminology I hadn't heard before, plus wanted to see what guys are doing nowadays. Not as much has changed as I thought but still I learned quite a bit here. Great video man thank you!

Amazing video. I learned so much in just 10 minutes. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Jono for all the information. I always learn something when I watch your videos. Happy new year.

Dawn right Emily it helps! 👊🏻😉 Best videos out there THANKS FOR HELPING US ☺️!

I’ve begun practicing and this video was very helpful, thank you!

I was totally pickin up what you were puttin down J! 👍😎👍

THIS WAS SO HELPFUL

amazingly helpful without any confusion thankyou for sharing , worth the sub great content

Loving all your videos and the very neat information you share with us. I just bought my first tattoo machine and am eager to learn (super seriously) as much as I can. Thanks 🤘😊

there is a real science to this thanx for educating me

Thank you for all this informations, learned a lot to get better practicing for myself. Greetings from France

This literally my Tattoo Needle Bible ❤

Great video man! Thank you

Thank you! This was actually really informative! 🤗

Thank you so much!! This helped me tremendously

Thank you so much, your video gives me a clear idea of where to start 🙌

10:44 to me for the portrait art ! I’ll be using 5rl for some lining ! 9rl for SHOW TIME thick shading , 7CM hair stroke . While 11CM for the highlight shading details !

Thank you so much brother I have started my journey and now it's easy for me to chose a correct needle ❤️❤️❤️❤️

So helpful. Thank u Sensei!

holy shit this is one hell of an eye opener!

Great video..Thanks..i was close on the quiz..I was suprised...

I really appreciate this...you really made my night awesome 💯❤️

Really needed this! Currently apprenticing but my mentor isn't really the greatest teacher. Definitely all self taught and looking to learn more

Thank you! I do PMU and started doing some simple tattoos and I’m not liking how much I’m going over the same lines multiple times. This helps.

Ive used flat shaders for fast whip shading and it worked good everytime

New to tattooing and your videos help me a lot thanks bro!

Thanks bro. Good info!

thank you for this video bruhh❤️💯

thankyou!!! helped so much

Great video dude learned a lot thanks

loved your video helped me a lot 💕

Jesus it’s Keith Lemon the tattooist from Yorkshire!!!! Loved the video, thanks mate. From 🇨🇦

11:13 I got it ! You just a great mentor to me ! 😍🙏🏽💃🏽💃🏽

Great video !! Very Well explained. Thank you

Thanks for the video. It's helps alot. Lots of friends want tattoos from me because I do graphic design. I have the equipment for tattoos but I just don't want to mess up on this medium. Being it's someone's skin. Thinking of the needles as brushes helps my anxiety..👍

Very helpful info...Thanks for sharing.

Thanks g for teaching me I appreciate so muchh!

Making my first steps thank you for this

you are awesome. thank you for the video, really well done!

I know this video is old, but man you helped me clear up some stuff! Thank you so much!! Now I know my work wil get so much better!

Thank you for your time and knowledge

Brilliant! You made everything so easy to understand. Thank you! I have a question that I can't find an answer to anywhere. I have just bought a charmant premium tattoo pen machine that uses cartridges. They have the usual 1rl, 3rl, etc, but there's also a 1d blunt needle cartridge and I'd like to know what those sized cartridges are used for.

SO HELPFUL

Thank you so much for this advice just starting to learn

Loved that. Thank you

Awesome lesson mate. Cheers for that, I’m gonna try my first tattoo tomorrow 😬😬

Really helpful thank you !

Dude this was very informative thank you very much💯👍

Thank you mate, just started to practice the art on fake skin, appreciate it

i looooooved this video thank you so much!!

Very informative! Thank u!

Thanks for the hard work man

This vid really helped ! Thanksssz