How to Improve Your Tattoo skills(basic operation)
How to Improve Your Tattoo skills(basic operation)
How to Improve tattoo skills？
What are the basic tattooing skills?
Is tattooing a skill or talent?
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Maybe you have these questions, but it does not matter, CNC Tattoo Supply is for everyone to bring the basic operation skills and precautions of the tattoo, welcome to read.
Tables Of Contents
- Is tattooing a skill or talent?
- As a tattoo artist before the preparation
- Work planning
- Secantg line
- Fogging
- What do tattoo artists need to pay attention to
- Post-tattoo care
Is tattooing a skill or talent?
Artistic talent is also a kind of individual skill that can serve clients very well. But still becoming a tattoo artist requires all kinds of training and experience to provide clients with safe, best-designed tattoos.
As a tattoo artist before the preparation work:
First of all, be familiar with the pattern you want to tattoo, and have a clear understanding of the pattern; Cutting machine, fog machine, and work to do its thing must first benefit the tattoo machines, do drawing before debugging the machine, to ensure the stability of the machine; Transfer equipment, ready to improve printing paper and transfer oil and a pen harmless to the human body and can be drawn on the skin; Color material (professional imported color material, please do not use unknown three non-color material, so as to avoid other harm to the guests) color cup, gloves, sanitary tissue, etc. Tattoo artists must follow professional ethics and take comprehensive precautions. This means that the surface of any equipment or tool must not come into direct contact with the artist's hands and tattoo site, and all tools must be thrown away after use.
Planning
Most people know that the process of tattooing is divided into "secant line", and "fog" two big steps, but often ignore a very important procedure, which is "planning".
"Planning" is divided into two parts, one refers to the design of the pattern, and one refers to the understanding of the pattern, design means that we in the design for customers at the same time, must take into account the long-term development of the pattern, considering the future improvement, because a tattoo is a recognition of their own body, it has continuity, example: When we design a dragon head for a customer, we must take into account the parts of the customer's body design in the future. The understanding of the pattern means that when we design any kind of pattern, we must understand what the pattern is. What are the lines, what are the blocks? What lines must it consist of? And how the lines are connected and so on. That is to say, we need to fully understand the above situation before the actual tattooing. Those who like Japanese tattoos will be addicted to the wild and soft, and the rough and the mysterious aesthetic feeling hidden. Those who like European and American works will be fascinated by the tattoos with chaotic composition and order, bright colors, and excellent techniques. Is that they have added a formality of "planning".
Secant line
The secant technique is based on different patterns and different styles of the Tattoo Secant line technique.
There are rules for every part of the tattooing process. Secant line is a very key link, especially for beginners, it is particularly important to master tattoo secant line techniques.
Secant line is the use of the tattoo machine on the needle to cut the outline of the design of the skin in advance.
a) Bury the needle
The buried needle is the length of the needle controlled at about 1.5 mm called the buried needle.
In general, traditional tattoo patterns such as Japanese tattoos are made up of blocks and blocks of color with distinct colors between them. In this case, the buried needle is usually used, and some parts need to be expanded at the same time of secant line. It is recommended to use a slightly thicker needle as this will increase the stability of the line.
The following points should be paid attention to when using the buried needle method:
1. Be sure to control the length of the needle at about 1.5 mm. If the scale of the buried needle is not well mastered, it is easy to produce color accumulation and dizziness. This is not conducive to the next operation.
2. Do not adjust the machine current too much when secant, otherwise it is not good to master the depth of the buried needle when secant. The key to the depth of the needle is the strength of the hand, followed by the different parts of the skin to determine the depth of the needle. For example, the needle should be shallow in the upper arm, shoulder, hipbone, inner thigh clavicle, and other parts, otherwise, it is easy to faint, and the drawing needle on the back of the hand is dark and easy to faint. In addition, do not do too subtle small patterns is better not to use a fine needle (three round needles).
3. When cutting lines, we must use professional color material. The professional color material is thick, and the lines cut out are clear and clean.
4, buried needle secant line, the machine gear should be just right, otherwise cut out the line easily to produce breakpoints, and do not stop when the secant line is, otherwise it will produce breakpoints. In addition, the needle should be slowly closed, otherwise, there will be breakpoints and shooting points.
5. Hard shrapnel with better toughness should be selected when burying the needle
b) Hanging needle
Hanging needle: The length of the needle is controlled slightly longer than the buried needle called the hanging needle. Realistic tattoo works generally use suspension needles, for example, European and American style small and medium-sized pictures and sketch effect patterns mostly use suspension needles.
The following points should be noted when using the hanging needle method:
1, the length of the hanging needle should be slightly longer than the buried needle so that it is easy to see the point of the needle.
2, the general suspension needle secant is not recommended to use too high a consistency of the color, which will affect the color effect.
3. The power gear should not be too high when the needle is suspended, which can be higher than the gear when the fog is played. If you can master the strength of the machine, you can also use the fog machine to do the needle-cutting line.
4, in the portrait tattoo face painting or some sketch effect pattern, does not emphasize the obvious outline, you can use the method of non-stick color material (commonly known as waterline) operation.
The fog
Look at this video -
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It is recommended that the needle is between 2MM and 3MM when the tattoo is foggy. The machine had better be soft, don't be too hard, the specific operation can use the hand to hold the shrapnel to try to know the strength of the shrapnel, the specific tattoo fog to use the method of the circle and push forward, it is necessary to look at the tattoo pattern and tattoo artist's techniques and habits, this is not an accurate conclusion, most of them rely on the tattoo artist's technique and feel the skin flexibility with the needle to control the depth, The following are several methods of fog;
1. Pick and stab method
When tattooing, we take the finger as the axis, in the direction that we need to do from deep to shallow tattooing. In this working situation, the needles are arranged in depth from deep to shallow, with deep coloring in the place where the needle is inserted, and light coloring in the place where the needle is inserted. But this method requires two kinds of technology, one needs a high-speed machine, and the other needs to move fast. If the speed of the machine is slow, then in the rapid movement, it is likely that the needle has not been pulled out of the past, so it will only scratch the skin, but not color. The slow movement, however, does not result in an orderly arrangement of the depth of the needle.
2. List the method
A list machine is an inkjet printer. As the name implies, the method of the list machine is the left and right horizontal pull technique, then the same is the left and right horizontal pull technique, how to make from deep to light color block distribution.
There are two ways to do this:
A: In the left and right horizontal pull, we control the depth of the needle to achieve color control. Of course, we need to master the tattoo machine and practice for a certain amount of time.
B: The change of color depth can be achieved through the control of pigment flow. For example, in the normal tattoo, with the left and right horizontal pull method of color, the tattoo, pigment in the needle did not, but we continue to tattoo thorns, at this time the tattoo color is light. But how can we control the pigment in the needle? We can use a wet cotton piece in the tattoo, start the tattoo machine on the wet cotton piece, the pigment in the needle is removed, and then, back one centimeter to continue the tattoo so that different levels of color can be tattooed.
3. Hula hoop method
As the name suggests, the hula hoop is a rotating technique, but in the tattoo fog, it is not a complete circle, only 3/4 circle, in the 3/4 circle of the tattoo needle is the exit stage, we know that in the change stage of the needle from deep to shallow so that the change from deep to shallow.
We often use all three methods at the same time in a pattern. Use a listmaker for heavy color edges, northwest rain for shade changes, and hula hoops for kneading
What do tattoo artists need to pay attention to?
- The tattooed chairs should do one-time isolation treatment, and can be covered with insurance film, so as to avoid indirect infection between the next guest and the last guest;
- Tattoo power adjustment button for disposable isolation treatment. To adjust the size of the machine when working, so use plastic wrap to avoid indirect cross-infection when the next guest is at work;
- The tattoo machine cable is wrapped with a special disposable cable cover. The line will touch the skin of the guest and the skin of the tattoo artist may also touch the tattoo site wound;
- When the first cup of color is used up to add color, the color bottle mouth must not touch the used color cup, if encountered, the whole bottle of color will be infected with bacteria;
- Light and lanterns may need to adjust the position when working, need to use plastic wrap bag, after work to abandon, the next guest tattoo before the new bag;
- If you need to adjust the machine during the tattoo process, take off the gloves and continue to replace the gloves after the adjustment;
- If you need to answer the phone during the tattoo, take off your gloves and replace the gloves after answering.
Be on guard against it!
Tattoo needles, medical gloves, color cups, hair knives, and other tools must use disposable; tattoo artist saliva has bacteria, and during the process of a tattoo, the tattoo can not speak to prevent bacterial infection!
Tattoo post-care
1. After 1.2 to 3 hours, remove the plastic wrap, rinse the sticky and slippery objects permeated from the tattoo with warm water (do not use soap and body wash), and then blot them with clean paper towels.
2. Sauna, swimming, bath, exposure to the sun, and excessive sweating are not allowed during the tattoo healing period. Eat less seafood, drink less alcohol, and wear loose and breathable clothes. You can take short showers.
3. About 2-3 days after the tattoo, the skin will begin to scab, the color of the tattoo will become dark, and there is a sense of tightness, all are normal, do not worry.
4. About 4-5 days after the tattoo, the tattoo begins to recuse the scab, and there will be a painful and itchy feeling. You can not scratch or pull the scab on the surface, which will cause the color to fall off. Only let the scab flake off naturally.
5. During the healing period, the tattoo can not apply any ointment without authorization. After all the scabs are off, the skin of the tattoo is dry, and you can smear some professional tattoo care products.
Improve tattoo skills, take your time, master the basic essentials, and constantly try and summarize, to design the best tattoo works.