How To Tattoo Perfect Lines

hello everyone Daniel yuck here thank you all for tuning in today I appreciate you in today's video I want to share with you all some tips and tricks in my Approach on how I go about perfecting my tattoo Lines within this video I am going to be as thorough as I possibly can be I'm going to explain as much as I can by the end of this video you will be well acquainted and have some practical practices that you can Implement on your end to better your tattooing lines should you have any questions at any point throughout this video I'm going to highly encourage you drop a comment down below I will do my absolute best to assist you in the best possible Direction I also have social medias under the same name as his YouTube channel I would truly appreciate your support over there as well please don't forget to hit that subscribe button for me and ring that Bell as I'm going to be bringing more videos like this for you all should you find my content helpful and enjoy my YouTube channel consider becoming a patreon or sending over super thanks as I would truly appreciate your support with that being said let's go ahead and dive straight on into this when it comes to tattooing lines there are a number of things that I am considering that allows me to pull a nice clean consistent saturated lines I'm going to begin with floating information right here I'm actually going to put some information on the screen for me some top variables that I am considering when it comes to nice clean consistent saturated lining I'm thinking of my comfortability with my setup how acquainted am I with my setup do I know my setup in and out do I know the vibration of my machine do I know how it feels running at 5 volts do I know how it feels at eight do I know where my lighting sweet spots are do I know where my shading voltage sweet spots are you kind of get my logic behind that so how comfortable are we with our gear is one of the fundamental variables that I'm considering when it comes to tattooing lines and I know it may be a little bit out of place but just bear with me this will all start tying in together being comfortable with our setup comes back to being mindful of what we are utilizing on our end coils tend to hit harder so therefore we run at a lower voltage to the line Rotary tattoo machines say with like a 3.5 stroke tends to hit a bit softer so we tend to to run more at 7.5 or 8 volts what if we were to translate the rotary setting for the voltage at around 7.5 to 8 to a coil machine then we're going to be ripping through skin and this is where problems happen so this is the main reason why we want to be acquainted with the gear that we are using this is the main reason why we want to invest the time into finding out the sweet spots and what's right for us I hope this can shed some light as to why understanding and being comfortable with the gear that we are using is important another fundamental variable that I am considering when it comes to nice clean consistent lines is my hand speed and voltage and again going back to the comfortability with our setup I can't align my hand speed and voltage if I'm not comfortable with the gear that I am using hand speed and voltage is just as important as all of the variables that I'm explaining to you here today so right now we have comfortability with our gear we have hand speed and voltage another variable that I am considering is my ink flow and not only that the ink type so those are two different variables on their own please keep in mind find that some inks are made a lot more thicker than others so if we're just kind of like blindly choosing tattoo inks to tattoo with then we may end up with results that we don't want and or just make our tattooing experience much more harder than it needs to be so I would recommend if you're going to be say focusing on lettering and then get an ink that is dedicated and tailored to lettering style tattoos another example if you're going to be doing tattoos dominantly around shading then go ahead and invest into some shading ink that's going to benefit your wants and needs and this all kind of goes back to being comfortable with our setup everything that we choose to use we're going to want to meticulously choose it all because of a and b because of C you get the idea we want to have a critical thought process behind the gear that we are using so that way when we are using this gear we can anticipate the results some of the variables that I consider are the lines and the directions if I'm going to be tattooing I don't really want to pull a line in a direction that I'm not comfortable with I always want to adjust my posture based around the lines that I I am doing I always want to match the line weights as well so I always want to pick a needle size that's closest to the line weight that I need to tattoo and I'm always thinking about my needle depth as well I always want to avoid going too deep as I don't want the design to lose its Integrity over time and or I don't want to blow the client out everything will be floating right here so that way you can take all this information in on your end I really recommend to kind of pause and absorb this information so that way we can kind of be on the same page throughout this video now now that I've gone over some critical thinking my logic and my thought process allow me to get more into the technical aspect of pulling nice clean consistent saturated lines for this demonstration I'm going to be demonstrating with a blank piece of fake skin to prove some points I'm also going to be demonstrating with this mandala I am using a real skin fake skin links will be for you in the description below here I have a different assortment needles that match the appropriate line weights for this specific design right here I have a 45 round Shader I have an 111 around Shader forgive me I have a quill 4 14 Round Shader I have a stigma five round liner and I have a CNC police three round liner when I was creating this design initially I was already putting thought into the line weights that I personally wanted to be using throughout this tattoo and this is kind of what I anticipated these Boulder lines right here are going to be with the inklaw 111 round Shader and then I'm going to do these little lines right here that are a little a lot less thicker than that one but they're still kind of bold I'm gonna do those with a 14 Round Shader the quill 14 Round Shader for those right there and then for these I may use a 14 Round Shader as well for those maybe for all of this line work in here I think the 14 Round Shader will be good and then for all of these smaller floral details in there I was probably gonna go with a five round liner and or a seven round liner long taper I could even do a nine round liner in there and then in here I could either do a three round liner or a five round liner so you get the idea and logic behind what I am going for you get my thought process behind choosing the line weights that are most accurate to what the design is telling me I personally feel this all does tie in to clean perfect consistent saturated lines because we are planning out the tattoos We're not gonna have to Wing anything we know exactly what line weight is for what we know exactly what we need to do which is a position we want to be in when we are tattooing for those who are curious I'm going to be using the AI tinnitus profit T100 I'm going to be using this ink claw tidy tattoo pin as well to demonstrate my points here when it comes to tattooing perfect lines knowing the technical side I feel of tattooing a line is only half the battle another half of the battle is a physical aspect where we are comfortable enough to hold our gear from point A to B without wobbling too much throughout the entire line I understand that we are not robots keep in mind that I you know tattoos aren't necessarily perfect however we still want to do the absolute best job that we could possibly do that's not to say there won't be a few wobbles within some lines that we are doing and if there is be kind to yourself understand that that is completely okay and the mistakes that we do make along the way those are perfect examples as to why we are investing the time of learning tattooing on fake skin now with that being said let's get into holding a tattoo machine and this is going to vary from artist to artist for me personally when I hold a machine it kind of fluctuated throughout my time of tattooing this year in April marks a third year that I've been tattooing and in that time frame I've kind of gone into different postures to see what worked best for me to see the finished results within my tattooing and to kind of just feel out different ways to tattoo and for me personally I've developed a couple of ways that I feel comfortable holding my machines I'm gonna actually demonstrate here with you all here is the quill 14 Round Shader so over the years when I first started I remember I started in a way that was kind of safe I used to play it very very safe when I first started tattooing and by playing it safe what I mean by that is I would use my middle finger often to stabilize my needle throughout my lining so this is what it would look like so let's imagine here I'm going to tattoo from this point to this point then I would get my finger right here and you'll see where I made tutorials showing you all how I hold my machine and I'll simply place my hand down comfortably find my appropriate angle and get comfortable and then from there I'm gonna just simply navigate throughout the line as best as I can and then when it got comfortable I would just taper out and then taper back in if I needed to so that is how I used to hold my machine and I've also fluctuated throughout my time of holding my machine let's say in more tough areas areas I've noticed that have more curves I would tend to hold my machine in a bit of a different manner like so so I would use my pinky as a base as you can see and then I would use my ring finger on my right hand as a way to hold the machine like so and then I would guide it like this on curvature areas on areas with you know curves to it and this felt a lot more natural and comfortable over this and this is going to vary from artist to artists keep in mind you may tattoo in a completely different style and or way and that is completely fine this is just how I found stability throughout my time with tattooing being comfortable in general is going to help us in the long run throughout our tattooing process we want to be as comfortable as we can throughout the process we want to be as planned and as ready for the designs and tattoos that we are taking on what I want to do now is I want to take some time and I want to share with you all what it's like to approach lining incorrectly so that way we are acquainted and kind of know what to look for when we are tattooing another important variable to consider when we want to get clean nice consistent lines is our needle hang so sometimes on some needles or most needles when we tend to hang our needle out too far we'll get a needle wobble and even though we're pulling straight clean lines in our technical application was correct the needles could still tend to wobble out of place so you're going to want to go ahead and take some time and play with your needle hang and figure out what's right for you so for me personally I like to pull lines with a needle hang I like to actually hang my needle quite a bit so for me I feel like somewhere around here is going to be great for me it's gonna be two weeks to row and everyone's different but kind of mess with the settings and figure out what's right for you but that's also an important variable to consider when we're trying to pull clean consistent straight lines right now I am running at 7.5 volts with the profit T100 I'm using the cool 14 Round Shader just to refresh our memory and I want to demonstrate the improper practice of my hand speed and voltage being unaligned so this is what it would look like when I'm tattooing and let's say if I wasn't aware of the fundamentals again such as hand speed and voltage if I'm going to be tattooing this is kind of what it would look like as soon as the needle hits the skin I think that I had to kind of go to work on the skin and you can see when we wipe away we're getting these sort of results I've had the question asked to me many many times why people's ink is not sticking or why their lines aren't coming out clean and why they don't look full and dark and this could be the reason why on this first of the line right here I simply just went too fast for my needle to do anything to the skin so therefore we have these sort of results and on this line right here I actually pressed down a lot harder significantly harder than I did on this line which resulted in a little bit darker of a line however you can still see that there's skips in this line if I zoom in closer this line right here actually has some points that are noticeable so when I went down it was fresh harder right here in this area and so forth they kind of repeated that skip like process throughout that line right there so here we have a very inconsistent results with bad practices and I'm going to kind of repeat that again so that way you can really see what I'm doing so let's just say the lines from right here so right here as soon as the needle touches and I've seen a lot of tattoo artist tattoo in this manner and in my head I'm just curious as to how they're getting clean lines we also have to keep in mind that a tattoo may look good up front when it's freshly done however when it heals if we are using this sort of technical application then the results are definitely going to be less undesirable so you can see a very inconsistent results the lines look like they've already aged quite a bit so if you ever see tattoos that have like that sort of faded age look the artist chances are they may not have been familiar with where the ink should be deposited and or maybe what it feels like to deposit ink into the correct location in the skin it had to have been something to this extent and granted those are just some of the variables out of all the possibilities that could be happening but to mine or you know to I guess in my theory that's what I think is happening whenever we see tattoos with that age look it's probably because the artist is a bit or uninformed or ill-informed you get the idea so you can see I slowed down a little bit more right here and we achieve a little bit more saturation so when I first started I remember I went through this exact process so I started learning I was like so the slower I moved I can get I could achieve a little bit more dark of a line so then I started applying that logic and then I just kind of went into the skin and it moves a little bit slower and you get the idea so although I'm not achieving a full consistent line you can see though now I am getting more saturation and I'm getting more darker or Darkness than what I have without having to press this hard so I'm getting somewhere and the idea is to get familiar with what improper tattoo practices are and this is what they are so you can see I'm just literally moving fast and what's happening is I'm essentially damaging the skin at a faster rate while doing less work so it's actually in Reverse if we're going to be tattooing this way then we're going to be causing significant damage to the skin while depositing minimal ink let alone doing anything on that tattoo design consistently let me wipe away so we can see the full results here and for me personally I do not see one consistent clean line right here and I'm sure everyone watching could agree with what I am saying there is not one clean consistent line I know that this one may look semi-decent but it's not when we turn to certain angles you can see those skipping points and you can still see how light that is all of these lines right here have that aged look to them already and they are fresh we just tattooed them this is not what we want I'm sure at this point we're probably asking ourselves well how do we get clean consistent saturated lines now for me there was a turning point that helped me figure out where I need to be depositing ink and let alone how I could align my hand speed and voltage and instead of pulling lines I took it down to dots so I'm going to use just the very tip of this 14 Round Shader you can do this with any needle size that you have on your end I would just recommend staying away from five round liners and Below try to do this with a seven round liner on up now what really was pivotal for me within my tattooing Journey was Finding the way the needle behaved and catched so there is a way when we tattoo that the needle behaves so the needle when we input into the skin we have to give it time to do its job we have to give it time to catch so to speak and by that what I'm what I mean is I'm going to demonstrate with dots so let's just see if I hit the skin with the needle like so although we do get some sort of tattoo marking this isn't anything that is of value or represent something to a client even a DOT would need to be saturated complete symmetrical you get the idea but however we can see the needle markings are right there so when I put the needle into the skin it was catching onto the skin however I didn't give it enough time to completely catch does that make sense allow me to demonstrate a needle catching so if I get comfortable I can do it this way this way as well I still tattoo both ways with my finger like this and this for those who are curious I do use both methods so I'm going to give the needle time to catch so as you can see it was in there significantly longer however I'm achieving darker results don't think that as soon as we put the needle onto the skin we're causing significant damage because that's anticipation I feel and we're anticipating something that only I guess we're anticipating theoretical ideas and that's not what we want we want to stay away from that so you want to get comfortable with the gear that you're using get comfortable with the needle catching don't press down too hard at all like we're not trying to Drive the needle into the skin like that that's not what we're doing here what we're doing is we're very what I'm doing it takes for the needle to provide me with and produce a clean dot like that and that's the idea behind it so you can kind of see that it does take a little bit of time for the needle to actually catch onto the skin and begin doing its job so the idea that we need to enter the skin and move as quickly as possible essentially was debunked for me when I found this out right here this was again a pivot moment for me in my tattooing Journey turns out this was a very big moment for me within my tattooing Journey knowing this right here and how the needle behaves how the needle catches within the skin was everything for me and I feel passing on this information to you can help you on your end especially if you're struggling to get clean consistent lines I would recommend doing this exercise over and over until you're aware of how the needle catches until you're producing clean saturated consistent dots without having to press down hard at all granted we're going to apply a natural amount of pressure but we're not going to dry this into the skin so you can see that if you leave it on a little bit longer or with others it catches on a little bit more and the more that it catches the more that it's saturating that little dot now we kind of want to start doing this and developing like a gauging system on how long we can leave the needle in the skin before it actually starts causing damage that we need to be concerned about because every single tattoo is damaged to the skin we're literally cutting the skin open so there is a certain level of damage that we do not want to cross which is why you kind of want to avoid just that's not what we're doing here we're not using pressure to achieve these dots we're using time see I'm leaving it there I could even move in a little circle should I want to kind of put the ink in there a little bit more and as you can see I'm starting to achieve consistent dots and granted this is just dots however this is going to translate into the next part of this video this is something that you want to practice on your end you can do this along with me if you want to as well I highly recommend doing so but you can see the more that I'm understanding how the needle is catching the cleaner and or I'm sorry the more saturated my dots are getting I'm not going for Perfection all I'm focused on right now is how the needle catches that is it I would highly recommend to do this as many times as you want on your end so that way you get a good idea as to how the needle behaves how it catches so you can get an idea of what it's like to achieve saturation without pressure without too much pressure because granted I am just applying a natural amount of pressure but as soon as I feel that needle tip going to work I stop applying pressure and I kind of let time do its thing and you can see the needle is actually catching I am going to switch on over to a better angle with a different camera here so that way you can see the needle imprint catching at a higher quality I'm going to switch on over to this angle here so that way I can try to get a better angle and demonstrate a little bit better as to what the needle looks like when it's catching so again I'm just using the very tip of the needle I'm exerting a little pressure and you can see how the tip of the needle starts imprinting the line weight onto the skin after we leave it in there a certain amount of time there you go you can see the Needle start catching and doing its thing and that right there is what I'm trying to demonstrate on that is what we want to do that's what we want to get comfortable with this little variable right here so you can see the needle tip is being created giving a little bit more time create the entire Little Dot that we need granted I have inadequate ink flow right now so this should be happening a bit more immediate so if you start seeing that then you're going to need more ink but I wanted to try to leave some ink out so that way you can see the actual configuration of the needle doing its job so you can see the more that I'm doing this the more that I'm practicing the needle catch the more that I'm understanding it actually takes a little bit of time for the needle to do its job I understand that we're just doing dots but this is a crucial fundamental that I follow and I guess kind of like live by with tattooing that allows me to pull clean consistent lines this is the main rule of thumb that I'm thinking about before I even start pulling a line before I knew about any of this before I knew that the needle needed time to catch my work was like this and I was having to go back over and over and over and not do one pass lines I was sculpting the lines at that point simply because I didn't know that the needle has a certain amount of time that it goes into the skin and it needs to catch has a certain amount of time where it needs to catch and then we could begin tattooing I would recommend practicing and practicing and practicing that needle catch until you know its second nature until you know how much time you're set up takes to input the ink keep in mind this is going to be on fake skin so the fundamentals and some variables will have to be tuned in correspondence to human skin however this is a great and fantastic starting point to fully understand what it's or what's required to pull a clean consistent line so repeat this as needed on your end once we're acquainted with needle catching and once we get more familiar with how our gear catches and once you do this a little bit more on your end and then I would recommend taking it to the next step and practicing smaller lines so before these were our results theoretically understanding that the needle needs time to catch and this was our practice and then now we're going to put the practice to the test so I'm going to use that logic instead of just doing it the way that I was before where I was just like that I'm going to apply the logic of giving the time I'm sorry giving the needle time to catch so we're going to repeat that here and again you can do this anyway I'll do it the older way that I used to do it give the needle time to catch and then now I'm moving at a steady and consistent hand speed or a steady and consistent rate that aligns with my hand speed and voltage keep in mind I'm running at 7.5 volts so your speed in terms of how fast you go from A to B is going to vary a little bit more before me comfortably to achieve nice clean consistent results I'm going to be moving it around this speed right here because the way that the needle catch it needs to do that throughout the entire line so that's how we're going to get clean consistent results we need to allow the needle to do its job when we input it into the skin so let's just say if I choose to go a little bit faster on this one on this line versus the other line we're going to notice the difference once I wipe so you can see when I wipe that first clean line right there stayed in there completely the Integrity is true to when I put it in this line right here I'm going to have to double up on on this part next I'll have to go back and then double up on this line because I chose to kind of speed it up right there when I shouldn't have has to be the same consistent rate and this is tuning your hand speed and voltage once you fine-tune your hand speed and voltage don't fluctuate too much from your hand speed and voltage that's your hand speed that's your hand speed and voltage for your setup so I would recommend getting comfortable not only with learning how the needle behaves and catches into the skin you get comfortable fine-tuning your hand speed and voltage one thing that I want to point out is that this is a four millimeter stroke if I am correct if I remember correctly the profit is a four millimeter stroke which has a harder hit also keep in mind that the stroke that you are using and again going back to being comfortable and knowing your gear the stroke that you are using is also going to determine how easy your machine is going to input ink into skin for example The Profit T100 has a harder hit because of that four stroke as opposed to this ink claw tiny tattoo machine as if if I'm correct this one's going to be a 3.5 millimeter stroke however if you align your technical application you can still get clean results with either or you just have to adjust in correspondence to the gear that you were using so here is the ink claw tiny tattoo pan and I'm using the mummy Wireless tattoo or Wireless power supply and I'm hanging out my needle quite a bit here I'm going to show you that if we have the executive application aligned we can still pull clean consistent lines with whatever gear that we're choosing to use which confirms being comfortable and knowing our gear is important so right here I have my machine running at seven volts even this power supply pushes a little bit harder make sure I have adequate ink flow same rule of thumb give the needle time to catch and then go from point A to B as I normally would and you can see I'm still getting clean consistent saturated lines nothing really changes in terms of technical application what is changing is my hand speed and voltage I'm simply tuning it to the gear that I'm using now but this is a completely different stroke it even feels a lot softer than the profit T100 however I can still get clean results all the way through so if I were doing this and not allowing the needle to catch and I kind of just pull through I would assume that this machine is just weak it doesn't have a hard hit this machine doesn't work you kind of get the idea and maybe that actually happens to people they draw their opinions from user error but you can kind of get the idea you want to give that needle time to catch before you start moving it anywhere doesn't matter if we're using a tiny tattoo machine or a fatter machine like the profit T100 you can see that the results are still achievable with either or and I can't tell the difference what machine was what if I were to look at it and not know what machine I used so understanding that we need this needle to catch in order for us to start achieving clean saturated lines we're going to take that fundamentals into our tattoo designs just keep in mind real quick before we move on and advance to the next part of this video you need to give your needle time to catch so I look at it as like a slope type of deal like a little half pipe type of thing where I'm going in and I let the needle catch which is breaking into the skin once I've broken into the skin I kind of drag it over the area of the skin that I'm going to be tattooing and I gave it time to do its job that is the fundamental idea behind it so that's how you go about getting clean consistent lines now granted we are talking about saturation and inputting ink into the skin I'm not talking about visible wobbly lines or anything like that just yet we can cover a lot of those aspects in a different video for this video I want to cover the aspect of how is it even possible to get the ink into the skin in a saturated manner without causing damage and the answer to that I feel would be to understand how long it takes for your needle to catch and then from there aligning your hand speed and voltage so that way you are applying the best possible cleanest lines you can apply to your clients I could repeat this all day but rather than repeating this over and over and showing you little lines let's get into an actual tattoo design and we're going to go back to this mandala that we started with at the beginning of the video so I'm going to start with the same area that I would if this was a real tattoo from the bottom kind of work my way on up I feel that that is a healthy approach and for me I'm going to run through all of the checklists I'm going to make sure that I have adequate ink flow so I'm dipping back to make sure that I have adequate ink within my needle cart there I'm going to make sure that my position is comfortable and I'm going to figure out the best possible way that I can move to get from point A to point B to apply the cleanest line that I could apply I'm going to acknowledge the area that I want to start tattooing and then I'm going to go from there same rule applies I'm going to want to give my needle time to catch before I proceed to uh pulling these lines here so I'm going to begin locate the spot that I'm going to tattoo and then from here I'm going to do my best to pull my line from point A to point beat as best as I possibly can so I'm going to make sure I input I need my needle to catch and then from there I'm just simply going to guide the needle following the stencil as best I can if I make mistakes it's okay I'm not going to really focus on them too much that's perfectly fine so you can see a semi uncomfortable with this line however we still achieve a nice clean results this is still a nice saturated line it's actually not bad at all and I'm going to continue that logic throughout the design here even if we were to wipe you can see that the line is true it's staying there we're not losing any ink or getting any patchiness apply the same method right here and if you're comfortable holding your machine like this the way that I am you can do that you can hold it like this however you hold it on your end I also have various videos talking about that I'm gonna start from A to B acknowledging my points and then from there give the time or give the needle time to catch and and just allow it to catch all the way through like so for me personally having a plan knowing where I'm gonna go is everything for me so that provides me with a lot of comfort and ease when I'm tattooing tattooing could be a really stressful thing it can make us nervous at times especially if we're going to be winging tattoos and not know what we're doing so you get the idea so I'm going to repeat that all the way through and essentially that's the process behind it to get clean consistent lines is to make sure you let your needle catch and of course make sure that your posture your holding position and all of that is comfortable in a manner that you are comfortable with make sure my needle catches it's actually catch right there and I know what it feels like when the needle catches because I spent time practicing doing those dots earlier that we saw on the video see so we're here with a little bit outside the stencil but again I'm not going to get focused on that and you can see that's quite a bit right there but at the end of the day I made that mistake so for example the skin kind of went up a little bit deterred my original movement I'm going to go back and I'm just going to kind of correct this as best as I can on a real Hawaiian it would have happened a little bit differently because granted we are at the edge of this fake skin which gives it a little bit more lift in certain areas of tattooing I don't want to get fixated on any mistakes that I make as that's going to deter me and discourage me for the rest of the tattoo if I fixate on this the rest of the tattoo choices are going to be made based around this one mistake and I don't really want to feel like that throughout my tattoo sessions so I need to trust the fundamentals I need to trust that I know what I'm doing so for this time I'm just going to put a little bit more pressure on the skin and stretch it out just a little bit more so that way I can get more of a firm hold on the skin that's how I'll counteract that from happening problem solved like so dab away very nice clean line same thing over here I'm just going to repeat this process and this is going to be with pretty much any needle configuration it doesn't really the fundamentals don't change because the needle size does the fundamentals stay the same the only thing that really changes is the needle size itself so you can see I'm moving at a healthy hand speed and voltage that's healthy for me and my setup I'm comfortable with what I am doing and I'm comfortable with the gear that I'm using therefore we can see it in the results right here all the way through as best I can this one may be a little tough to tattoo however if I take my time with it we should be able to tattoo this so right here the Skin's lifting up feeling uncomfortable so I'm just going to go ahead and taper out right there I'm not able to pull this line all in one go and you can see as I started lifting we started showing some inconsistencies there and that's what I want to stay away from at all costs when I'm tattooing I'm gonna try and figure out another approach a better way to approach tattooing this and I'm going to take her back in from a little bit above the line here very surface level touching here and then now I'm starting to let the needle catch back into the skin this is a very uncomfortable spot to tattoo very unstable as you can see skin bouncing everywhere I just stayed consistent as I possibly could to apply it as best I can for the way that it was wobbling I didn't experience too bad of a line however this is not what we want this is still not good tattooing right here so I'm gonna go ahead and go back this way over this line So to avoid stuff like this from happening you kind of want to put some thought into the tattoo put some thought into what is more comfortable for you which way would you prefer to move over another so that right there if I would have thought about it a little bit more I could have prevented from having to go over this line three different times now I'm going to do the same thing for here I'm going to feel comfortable pulling it towards me so I'm gonna do that let the needle catch you can feel it catch and then when it does catch just leave it in that area in that kind of caught State until you get to your point of Interest so to speak I'm definitely not mad at this area for it being this corner I'm happy with those results from my experience tattooing fake skin in their Corners is one of the most tedious things that I've ever had to tattoo just because of all the bounce I experience it's not really practical so I don't really get too mad at that area so I'm going to go over here and then I'm going to continue this process I'm just going to kind of demonstrate here for you wool make sure that I always have adequate ink flow so every other line depending on how long it is I'll go ahead and dip back into it I felt like I sped up a little bit there so my mind came out a little faint for a certain area and these are little things that we want to pay attention to when we were tattooing and I sure did right here in this area you can see that it's a little bit lighter over the other areas because I tend to I sped it up right there a little bit and that's what we see it's not necessarily a bad thing for me personally if this was on human skin I'm gonna leave it like that as opposed to try to double up and make this little part more thicker I'm going to leave it like that because of the lightweight Integrity is still there we didn't lose any Integrity from a nice saturated line however that one could have just been more saturated in my opinion so you get the idea you always want to pay attention to your hand speed and voltage and how fast you're moving from A to B make sure you're giving time for that needle to penetrate and catch foreign like so and this is the process that we're going to repeat until the tattoo is done or until we've lined the entire tattoo so my logic is I'm acknowledging the points that I want to tattoo and then I'm trying to go from A to B to tattoo those areas taper in right here and right around here is where the needle is catching and I'm going to follow this as best as I can so there we go now for those who are wondering if this is causing damage to the skin now it's going to vary it's hard to say for my specific application this is the way that I've tattooed and this is the way that I do tattoo and this is a way that I've achieved the best results when tattooing so it's going to really vary from artists to artists if an artist is using a coil using this same application then they may end up chew up they may end up chewing up the skin in the long run so it's hard to say what's right and wrong when it comes to tattoo artists you kind of have to watch them for yourself and see how the results come out so again I'm always going to let my needle catch take my time give it time to catch before I start moving on to the next part one is I want to remain as consistent as I possibly can as you can see over and over again I'm achieving very similar results all these lines are looking nice and cohesive and neighborly towards one another for lack of a better term but they all look nice and consistent the line weights don't fluctuate and you can notice that I changed my position to this position simply because I'm on a curved area it just feels more natural to do it this way for me and another one and then from here I would repeat this process with every single line on the design the fundamentals do not change I'm always going back to the basics especially when I'm doing complex designs and there's a lot of lines involved it's literally just going back to the basics taking my time from point A allowing the needle to catch and then tape green out to point B and then the same thing with the other lines like so all the way through until the tattoo is completed and I'm going to repeat that on this side and it's all going to be the same even with these thicker line weights as well and I think the idea of it is finding that hand speed and voltage and really understanding how long it takes for your setup to catch into the skin I feel like those are very important variables to think about when we are applying these lines you'll notice every single line I'm doing I'm letting the needle catch before I move on so here we go the beginning catch guide release on to the next I don't want to rush either I don't want to make up any stencil as I go I want to try to stay true to it as I possibly can as you saw earlier mistakes will be made but I'm doing the best that I absolutely can while still achieving pretty decent results let's say I need to do this right here there's two ways we could approach this we can either outline it and fill it in should we not have a configuration of this size or if you have a configuration that matches that thick of a line width you could simply use that so for this I'm going to use the Ian claw 111 round Shader so that way I could input these lines with one go [Music] here we have the inklaw 111 round Shader I want to make sure that I have good adequate ink flow so that way all 111 needles are getting input into the skin now this is going to require a bit more of a catch time due to the needle size you can see I'm going to let me make sure I'm on camera for this one so see I'm gonna place the needle in right here give it time to catch and then I'm going to move it along as best as I possibly can and I want to move at a slow steady consistent pace so that way it catches the way that it's catching so that way all 111 needles catch and I also have to go back for a little bit more ink because this is depositing a lot more ink so we're going to need to make sure that ink flow is correct especially when again when we're dealing with larger configurations and go back in from above a little bit to taper in like so as best as I possibly can get these lines as you can see we're achieving nice clean saturated results here if you need to double up feel free to do so I can go ahead and easily when they put this area right here without causing tremendous damage to the skin and that's one way that we can go about tattooing thicker line areas right here and that's how I can go about getting nice clean lines with thicker needles I always give the needle time to catch up that's the most important thing giving the needle time to do its job and behaviors from larger configurations to smaller definitely do change as you see here however I'm sticking to the same fundamentals where I give the needle time to catch and then from there I work the needle as best as I can same thing all the way through I'm going to do my best to saturate this line right here with these cameras all in the way and I'm just going to keep the same fundamental approach here hopefully I can remain in focus on this one right here it's going to be a little bit rough on this Edge right here but it's okay it's the corner of figskin I'm going to let the needle catch as best I can to that corner and then once I fill the needle catching that's when I begin to tattoo the line now the skin was popping up a little bit right there which is why I went ahead and I tapered out because I'm going to continue to start from the top a little bit and then just continue this line until it's complete just like so so let's do it again with this line right here and then you're going to notice that no matter if I'm using 111 needles or if I'm using 14 needles my fundamental still stays the same I have to let that needle catch before I begin working on the area that I'm tattooing so I'm going to try to keep in Focus so I'm tattooing in a very awkward position here Put the Needle there and let it catch in there and as I'm letting it catch I'm also like tapering in a little bit so that way I don't have hard points where I start and stop and I couldn't tattoo it all in one go because the skin started going up so that's not practical skins raising up a little bit gotta give that needle time to catch in the right areas if we're not tapering in from the right areas it's possible that we're going to get inconsistent lines but as you can see we still got a nice clean saturated line there for these spots right here I do feel like the stigma standard five round liner would fit well there so we're going to use that and that area right there and the fundamentals again stay the same I'm simply going to get my setup comfortable to my liking [Music] since I'm using a smaller configuration one that's easier to break the skin open I'm going to take it down from 7.5 volts to about six six volts feels pretty safe for me that feels healthy and it sounds healthy as well and then I'm going to continue the basics I'm going to find my A to B make sure I have adequate ink flow make sure my positioning is comfortable and then I'm going to make sure that this needle catches even though it's smaller it still needs to catch so I'm going to give this needle time to catch but you'll notice that since it is a smaller configuration it'll catch much easier I'm going to taper in right here and then I gave the needle time to catch right here in this area and I remain in the area where it caught and I kind of break the skin open and correspondence to the design so the stencil is telling me to break the skin open here to deposit ink in this area right here so that's exactly what we did you can see we got a nice line there now I'm going to continue that with the other side right here so there we go even smaller needle configurations still need time to catch we still need to give them time let them do their thing don't rush that process don't rush that catching process just adjust to each and every single needle that you were using so right here in this little area right here we can use like a 14 Round shade or should we choose to do so so what I'm going to do is I'm going to follow these Leaf lines right here I'm gonna input those giving it time to catch dragging it through the design moving at a steady consistent Pace there like so if you can't see I'm terribly sorry about that try to implement as many different angles as I possibly can for you will turns out it's actually really hard to record a tattoo at the same time I let the needle catch each and every time that's like one thing I don't rush at all hasn't had a cat to achieve that sort of result in terms of stability and all of that that's a whole other video that we can talk more about on stable practices this is more on the technical aspect on what it's or what's required to pull clean consistent lines now what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to use this five round liner and just run through the middle of all of these I feel like that would work well as well so we have that there let the needle catch and I'm going to repeat that over and over and over because that's exactly what's happening you got to let those needles catch you got to let them do their job for you also note the smaller you go in configuration size the more you're going to see your mistakes so if you're trying to avoid these sort of imperfections then go with something thicker than a five round liner because a five round liner you're going to see every single imperfection even with longer lines I'm going to approach it the same way you're gonna get comfortable let the needle catch and do a sting along the way you can end it with the taper out up there and we pulled a decent line there let's zoom in all the way since there's a bit more curves here I'm going to approach it in a manner that feels most comfortable to me and that's going to be right here actually let's do it like this there we go longer line right there let it catch in this area and I'm just gonna keep it in there and pull it across [Music] forgive me for the Thunder there is a storm happening right now but as you can see we did achieve another clean saturated line keep in mind this is a five round liner so every imperfection I make is going to show drastically with this small of a needle configuration corner of the skin now also keep in mind when we're pulling lines with needles even if we're using the same needle configuration to create all of these lines if we're pressing down more in certain areas over others that can also change your needle size so you also want to be careful with that [Music] we actually don't have many lines to go here so I'm just going to do a few more on camera with you all I didn't really want this video to run all along however I feel like the more that I record the more value you'll get for your watch foreign I'm just gonna do these spots as well with the 14 Round Shader it makes sense I'm going to start with a spot that I dislike the most which is the end of this fake skin so as you can see that's right there that right there is a direct result of inadequate ink flow didn't have enough ink to make it from A to B which is something that we also want to avoid always give that needle time to catch that's probably like one of the most important tips I can give you here throughout this video is to let that needle catch let that needle really do its work really use your eyes and adjust accordingly don't anticipate that you're gonna know what the needle is going to do use your eyes and kind of just walk yourself through it practically mistakes will always be made along the way I think how we handle them is what makes us a professional and I think how we fix them should it knee fixing is what makes us a professional that right there the skin kind of moving on me I'm not really too harsh I don't judge myself too harshly on these Corners right here it is what it is I'm not gonna get caught up in fixate on that area because it's just kind of hard to be practical with these corners and you'll notice that I didn't really talk much about pressure throughout this video because that's not an important variable that I'm always considering when I'm pulling lines pressure is not always on my mind what is on my mind is getting comfortable with understanding how the needle behaves understanding that now the needle has broke into the dermis and I am now depositing ink into the dermis I think that that is a lot more valuable than using pressure in my opinion and that's just how I'm going about lining I don't really rely on pressure I more so rely on my hands to be in voltage and how much time I leave in the skin I leave the needle in the skin and you can see every line is consistent and saturated just like the one see the next of it again these edges can't take them too serious just try your best if you are tattooing on the edge of a big skin yeah here we have the tattoo all lined up and in my opinion I love the way that it came out it was very difficult to work in these cornered areas however the entire tattoo overall was very fun to do and you can see that from afar from a top view it reads really really well all of the imperfections aren't really pronounced and they're not really sticking out to us so therefore I'm very very happy with the results and readability of this tattoo right here these are the results this is what I am working with from here what I would do is simply start adding the dot work where I want to add the dot work and the shading where I want to add the shading before this one this video is going to be based around the lines as you can see we achieved some pretty decent results right here now that'll conclude this video I do hope that I was able to help you in a better direction or at the very least by now I hope that you can take something with you that you can practically apply immediately on your end should you have any questions about anything that you saw or heard throughout this video I'm going to encourage you to drop a 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Channel: Daniel Yuck

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Length: 65min 41sec (3941 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 23 2023