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    • #16675
      erocktattoo
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      Some people don’t notice the tattoos! LOL. Im at Tattoo Lou’s in babylon, Long Island, NY. Don’t worry about the tattoos right now, just keep safe over there! The tattoo world needs you!

    • #16670
      erocktattoo
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      Thats how I started so I know first hand that teaching yourself in definately the long road. But sometimes you have no choice in the matter. Practice drawing and trace stencils for no reason. Read art books, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards is real good. Read Tattoo Machine by Jeff Johnson to find out what you’re getting yourself into! Try to find someone to help you out even if it’s just once a week. This will help the learning curve of the technical side of the art. After that it’s your artisitc ability, if you can’t draw it on paper then you can’t tattoo it on skin!
      erick alayon

    • #16632
      erocktattoo
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      If you look at the needle bar where the needles are soldered on make you will notice that the bar overlaps the needle group. Make sure you load it so the needles are under and that they rest squarely on in the tube. Also make sure the eye of the bar is snug (not tight) on the armature bar nipple. If it’s not snug the bar will shake around and cause ink to splatter. You could even be running the machine too fast.

      Practice skin is harder to tattoo. I’m good friends with Angelo, the guy who first sold the starter skins. If you learn on fake skin you will overwork real skin as real skin is more fragile. I have tattooed lots of fake skin just to have some cool tattoos to hang on the wall. Eric Negron, who did all the skins you on Angelo’s website says the same thing. They are just very hard to work.

      erick alayon
      http://www.tattoorediscovery.com

    • #16164
      erocktattoo
      Member

      Hi, Tammy. That was probably the review for my book you read. That’s how I found this forum also, so far it’s pretty quiet, maybe because it’s new. But it seems like a good place! You can ask me anything! I’ve been tattooing for 20 plus years and I really enjoy helping people! I get a lot of questions from my readers, so believe me when I tell you I hear EVERYTHING!!!
      erick alayon

    • #16090
      erocktattoo
      Member

      Her’s a Koi tutorial by Ed Lee:
      http://www.eleeflash.com/page/page/511063.htm

      He has a dragon one also, but I can’t find it. If I come acroos it I’ll post it here.

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