TATTOO TUTORIAL SHADING SKIN
If continuously grinding and pressing the machine, the skin will rip and excessive scabbing will occur which will reject ink from the body. Some people think that the deeper you go, the better the results. Remember, all those holes have to heal later. Do not over do it because the skin can only handle just so many of those small holes. Wipe occasionally with tissue to keep an eye on how it is coming along. The tip must be kept moving in small circles, slowly covering the desired area.
TATTOO TUTORIAL SHADING HOW TO
Learn early in your career how to put in solid black (or color) where it is needed. Always work off the points of your needles for best results. Don't waste dme by tattooing without ink or doing a tattoo that is bleeding excessively.
Never try to run out of ink and try to keep the needles continuously wet with flowing ink. just guide the machine and move the tip in small circles, letting the needle points enter the skin where you want the black ink to go. Let the machine do the work and do not press down on it. The machine tube tip will fill up and the ink will gravity flow down the needles and enter the holes your shader needles are making in the skin and at the same time putting in the black.īegin the tattoo by working on the portions of the design that are to be solid black. Light Shading against any side of the cap. Dip the tip of the machine in the ink cap that was used for outlining (being refilled when need be) without letting the needle points hit Start by washing the outline with green soap and apply another very thin coat of Vaseline over it. Now the artist is set-up to do the black shading. Check it running and adjust so there is no side quiver (see Machine Set-Up Section for solutions). The two outside needles should touch the sides just enough to eliminate any side to side motion but not enough to make them tight. Let the needles stand out about 1/32 inch. The tattoo machine should have the four or six needle shader bar set-up properly with the corresponding shader tube. Black tattoos take on an aged "patina" with time, and after a few years, if the tattoo is retouched up with more black, a certain quality is obtained which cannot be reproduced in any other way. With some of the quality work out nowadays, especially single needle tattoos, it's not hard to appreciate this point of view. They feel that a black tattoo (one done only in black ink, no color) is the only way to show a tattoo and that the addition of color only hinders the design. If not done in this order, the dark colors mix with thelighter ones in the pores already made from the machine and a bad smudged mess will result So, all the black work must be done first, and after the outline is finished, that means the shading is next.īlack shading can be so attractive that some tattooists use this style exclusively. That is black first, then the next darkest color, etc., and the lightest colors for last. The tattooing spectrum goes from dark to light. All the black work must be done before any color can be put in. Black shading is the next step in the tattoo process after outlining. Shading must be mastered because, not only does it really make a tattoo stand out, but many tattooing errors and tattoo cover-ups can be hidden and corrected by proper shading. This is called ■dead-heading" and is undesirable. If not feathered right, it will appear blunt and the shading looks as if it ends abruptly. If done too light, it will not stand out.
Diligent practice pays off here because sometimes tattoo artists are judged solely by their peers on the quality of black shading that they do.
Good tattoo shading requires experience and is an acquired skill.
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