Tattoo for Beginners

Overview

“In this lesson we will learn to pointillism in different ways. the necessary materials, voltage differences and wrist movements that we need to obtain different results. Also to serve the different applications and shades of gray. We will know scanning techniques, rapid pointillism, point by point and whipshading.”

In this video lesson Polilla Tattoo addresses the topic: Pointillism and dotwork shading techniques, which is part of the Domestika online course: Tattoo for Beginners. Learn everything you need to start tattooing from scratch.

Partial transcription of the video

“Pointillism and dotwork shading techniques We’ll start with the pointillism lesson. In this lesson I’ll show you how to do shading and textures using dots. To do pointillism, I use the thinnest needle. Take out the filling needle you used last and we’ll use the 3RL 10 caliber needle. If you don’t have a 10 caliber, no worries, the effect is the same. It just needs to be a 3RL at most a 5RL, but not more than that. This needle we used before for thin lines, we can reuse it to do the dots. When we’re working on a tattoo, all open materials on the table are materials we can use throughout the ...”

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Course summary for: Tattoo for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (3651)
• 137275 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (3h 1m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Tattoo Design