Pepper Shading Techniques for Tattooing

Overview

“It's time to create the illustration for your course project! Do you have a sketch that caught your eye? It is time to refine this idea and make your stencil according to the characteristics of your client. ”

In this video lesson Alan Shepard addresses the topic: From Sketch to Stencil, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pepper Shading Techniques for Tattooing. Experiment with speed, depth, and saturation to create tattoo designs filled with textures and gradients.

Partial transcription of the video

“From Sketch to Stencil In this lesson, we’ll turn the sketch into a stencil. I will teach you how to create a stencil so you can represent your shadows, gradients, and textures within the design. For my final project, I thought about the forearm. Remember to ask your clients for a photo in case you will apply your design in a particular area of the body or if your client has several tattoos and you have to design it according to this space. Now that you've chosen your sketch, it's time to perfect it. I personally work in Procreate, but I used to work on paper and I even used tracing paper t...”

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Course summary for: Pepper Shading Techniques for Tattooing

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (126)
• 10362 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (3h 4m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Tattoo Design, Traditional illustration