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Tattoo Tip
#12
by John Bradley of Captain Jack's Tattoo
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Tribal: "Smooth curves and sharp tips made easy" |
What makes a good-looking tribal? Nice and solid black. The right placement. Sharp
and even curves. Tips that come to a clean point....Well I can't tell you how to put the
black in solid (you should already know how to do that) and I cant tell you where to place
the tribal (the placement works best with the curvature of the muscles) but what I may be
able to help you out with is smooth curves and tight tips.....when I do any tribal work
(and I do a lot of that in our shop) I use an eight needle outliner...I guess by now you
must be asking why an eight? I thought that you said the tips are going to be
pointy...well I use an eight needle outliner because it produces a wide enough outline
that you don't have to slave over getting up to the outline without going outside the
outline with the color, and this makes the job goes much faster. Also with a wide outline
it is much easier to produce a nice curve or straight line then it is using a five needle
or a three needle....but now you ask yourself, but what about those pointy tips of the
tribal that you talked about? Well, ... what I do when I am coloring my tribal in is to
turn the shader needle sideways when I come to the tips and produce the sharp tips that
way...(I use a five or a six flat to color tribal unless it is really big in which case I
use a 14 or 17 mag and then finish the tips with a five or six flat). See when you turn
the flats sideways you produce what is equivalent to using a single needle. because
all
the needle on a flat shader will produce a line that is as wide as a single when used
sideways...like I said in my other tech tips. This
may not be for you, but it sure works
well for me and also for all the other Tattooist that I turned on to this tip.... John |
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