“suffer-ass” ahah
I was asked recently … as an “established” tattooer… if I thought an apprenticeship was still a worthwhile endeavor for an aspiring artist……. my answer:
“starting to tattoo without an apprenticeship is like building rockets without studying physics. sure…. it might take off… but you’re probably not going to go very far, or hit your mark, and you’re likely to destroy enough shit to piss off everyone around you.
true, I come from a traditional art background, but I owe my success in tattooing, AS WELL AS IN ART, to my solid and lengthy apprenticeship. I owe my mentor everything. I’d be nothing without it, or him. “
we DO NOT need any more tattooers that don’t know the fundamentals. let alone ones that haven’t learned to respect what it is that we do. if you don’t want to do this the right way, don’t. fucking. bother.
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Dermabrasion Tattoo Removal. Dermabrasion is a process where the skin is scraped off in layers so that it is allowed to grow back from the layers below it. The top layers of skin tend to scrape off and be replaced by the layers below them. This process happens from time to time to ensure that the skin remains young and healthy. When the individual wishes to have a tattoo removed, he or she may go in for dermabrasion tattoo removal which is an artificial method of scraping the skin such that it grows out without any evidence of the former tattoo.
There’s a Starbuck’s a couple doors down from my dayjob that I frequent enough that they know me and I can identify new employees. Well, a new barista is staring at me hardcore as I make my way to the front and I see he has modest stretched ears. He turns on the charm and without letting me get a…
Source: A picture a friend took of a kid she goes to school with.
Submitter Comment: None of the tattoos that come out of this shop are very good.
What’s awful: Poor coloring, poor shading, poor detail. General lack of skill and experience.
How it can be fixed: Help!
