Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:58 am
Hello
Hello everyone, my name is Jim and im 34.
I served most of a year long apprenticeship about 12 years ago and shortly after worked as sort of a working tattoo artist/apprentice in a shop for about 2 years after which time I went in the army. I have wanted to get back into tattooing for years and I finally decided to do it. I bought a Hildbandt tattoo kit which after doing a lot of research seemed to come with the best machines and the best all together starter kit for the money and it came with a lot of training tools including the book fundamentals of modern tattoo which is how I found this site plus a cd with about 6000 types of flash on it and some great videos. I have had many friends who saw my work in the past ask if i would tattoo them since ive told friends im getting back into tattooing, only problem is im a bit nervous. ive been working on my drawing, ive watched every video on youtube about tattooing, ive checked out almost every book on tattooing at my local library and still I feel nervous and I never felt nervous in the past or atleast not that I can remember. I,m planing to do a test tattoo on some practice skin tomorrow and follow up with one on myself. Ill let anyone interested know how it goes. this is a great forum, thanks for all the info.
I served most of a year long apprenticeship about 12 years ago and shortly after worked as sort of a working tattoo artist/apprentice in a shop for about 2 years after which time I went in the army. I have wanted to get back into tattooing for years and I finally decided to do it. I bought a Hildbandt tattoo kit which after doing a lot of research seemed to come with the best machines and the best all together starter kit for the money and it came with a lot of training tools including the book fundamentals of modern tattoo which is how I found this site plus a cd with about 6000 types of flash on it and some great videos. I have had many friends who saw my work in the past ask if i would tattoo them since ive told friends im getting back into tattooing, only problem is im a bit nervous. ive been working on my drawing, ive watched every video on youtube about tattooing, ive checked out almost every book on tattooing at my local library and still I feel nervous and I never felt nervous in the past or atleast not that I can remember. I,m planing to do a test tattoo on some practice skin tomorrow and follow up with one on myself. Ill let anyone interested know how it goes. this is a great forum, thanks for all the info.
