Bullshit Advice

[SparkEater72]

… from guys that can’t tattoo is useless.

How can you tell a guy can’t tattoo?
Can he tattoo if works in a shop?
How about if he owns one?
What if he can show you pics of his tattoos? Does that mean he (or she) can tattoo?

Well… any dickhead with money can open a tattoo shop nowadays and not only start tattooing, but start collecting money to apprenticeship gullible fuckheads.
And most morons have NO IDEA they’re doing bad tattoos… it’s just cool to be doing tats yo. Cuz they have guns n shit. Let’s do a party.

Guys who can’t do good tattoos and try to advise others how to do tattoos piss me off more than anything. There are three glaring examples of this on this forum and why the forum should be shot in the fucking cache and destroyed.

good thing it’s dying.

So… Ramen, Lenn, Infamous. You all see like nice guys… but you can’t tattoo for shit and none of you should be offering advice. Everything you say is something clipped from a book or video you saw. Kudos on working clean (even if you buy ridiculous products and advertise for them… are you getting paid??? you should be) but everything you say also shows your lack of experience.

Videos… heh… Ram, you should spend more time getting better at your art than you do instructing others on how to get better at theirs. You’re all right, but your a long shot from stellar and an even longer shot from ‘teaching’.

As far as spray bottles? Why put barriers on them? WHY DO YOU USE THEM AT ALL???? By the way, the baggie should be sufficient… wrapping the bottle itself in plastic wrap is only going to lead to cross contamination when you unwrap them with your gloved hands… or are they ungloved??? one way or the other… Cross Contamination hazard right there old chum. Nalgene Bottles (the squeezy ones) are the best way to go to prevent those aerosols y’all love talking about. Besides… you can easily cover them with one baggie that you can remove easily and NEVER come in contact with the bottle.

One last for you… Arterial Spray? This about killed me, I was eating while I read that and my fit of laughter had me choking on food. Thanks man… I love close calls. They’re life affirming.

If you’ve got Arterial Spray… you’re way too deep… or your tattooing with a fucking machine gun… or a jack hammer.

Spider… your artwork is impressive. Your tattoos could use a little work but the only suggestion I can come up with is that you should slow down and take your time. You, sir, have a lot of potential.

Some tattoo artists you can judge these cats by (if you’re one of the ‘tribe’)

Shane Oneil
Guy Aitchison
Jeff Gogue
Don McDonald
Jack Rudy
Mark Mahoney
Paul Booth
Liorcifer
Electric Pick
Tin Tin
Dan Hazelton
Jimi Litwalk
Joe Capobianco
Tony Ciavarro
Kory Kruger
Megan Hoogland
Kari Barba
Jeremiah Barba
Deano Cook
Mario Barth (not his vids… his actual work)
Deanna Lippens
James Kern
Tim Kern
Juli Moon
Sean Wood

and so so so so many more. I’d love to list them all but the wife is cranking the TV volume and it’s quite distracting.

Stop subscribing to Inked magazine or whatever that fucking GQ tattoo mag is.

Best magazine on the market that is available to scab vendors and kitchen wizards…. Tattoo Society. Look at the work in that magazine.

Any time someone wants to offer you advice… look at their work. If it’s barely better than yours… disregard the advice.

Put a machine on it, tattoo fruit, go deeper, :lol:

…and no boys… I’m not Mad Reaper… don’t even know who the guy is. But he had some solid advice… and some damn good points. All the non-tattoo argument bullshit is on all of you and never should have hit this forum.

[Shaggy]

Nikko Hurtado… Bob Tyrell… Roman Abrego… Mike Devries!

SparkEater… I have been too busy to check here in awhile, but have to tell you I LOVE the stuff you have been posting. Gotta admire the honesty and passion for the craft in your posts (I also loved when MadReaper was around). Obviously it is all falling on deaf ears unless they are lurking once in a while (which I know they do since I saw it mentioned at their new hangout). I have lurked a few times over at their new clubhouse, and it just hilarious to read… it’s like an episode of the Big Bang Theory with Sheldon, Leonard, Raj and Howard except they are tattoo geeks (they even have geek themed levels at the clubhouse – Jedi, etc.). It’s good for a chuckle.

I basically quit bothering with this place after I got curious and went to Ram’s facebook page to see his work and almost fell out of my chair. Self-proclaimed asian specialist, B&G specialist? The “original” asian mask is just horribly drawn to begin with, let alone inked like he was blindfolded. The black & grey pieces have no transition between shades, let alone smooth, it’s just linework and 1 shade. The fact that people let him put needle to skin blows my mind!!! I can’t comment on the art of the others since I gave up wondering after realizing King Ram (or Sheldon) was the one actually supplying the before tattoos to Tattoo Nightmares.

Keep it real!
– Shaggy

[Lennart82]

Ha I must be Leonard then :P

[SparkEater72]

Must be. If you’re referring to who I’m not.

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