I’m 17 years old, still in high school. Since I was little (and I mean 5 or 6 years old), I’ve always known that tattooing was definitely for me.
I love being creative and drawing, but I’ve a few problems.
>I’ve never had a ‘foundation’ for my art. Most of it is by eye, and I use references from different images.
>When creating a drawing, I’m very slow and tend to stop working on a certain thing due to mental roadblocks and loss in confidence.
>Sometimes my motivation is missing, and can’t summon the energy to face a paper & pencil, no matter how much I long to do it. It’s conflicting feelings, and I don’t know how to explain that, actually..
I know they say practice makes perfect, but what do I practice off of? Do I re-sketch finished tattoos of others to get an idea?
Do I keep throwing myself into challenges that I never finish because of intimidation?
I don’t want to be told, “oh, you lack the necessities of being a true tattoo artist,” because this is my dream, and my everything else. I just need help and a little guidance so I can work through these blockades.
Thank you!
Welcome to the forum!
There is an excellent thread under “general tattoo discussion” it is “So you want to be a tattoo artist”
I am a doodeler. I always have paper and pen or pencil close by. I draw anything. If you are drawing only tattoos, pick an item in front of you and turn it into a tattoo. A paper clip, bottle opener, wrist watch, anything. (I like drawing nude women!)
Good luck, keep us posted.
Take art classes at a collage level. Work on a portfolio show all different styles of drawing. Search out an apprenticeship. DO NOT pick up a tattoo machine until instructed by your mentor. A lot of mentors won’t even think about mentoring you if you have been scratching. you pick up bad habits that are hard to break.
Good luck
@buttwheat 120493 wrote:
Take art classes at a collage level.
I know I’m being a total grammar nazi, but I can’t stand this one: fellow classmates at my COLLEGE make this mistake and it makes me wonder how they made it to college.
CollEge- Very expensive secondary education. CollAge- ‘A form of art in which various materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric are arranged and stuck to a backing.’
Again, sorry Buttwheat, just had to get that out. Please forgive me. 🙂
@iggybuddi 120496 wrote:
Again, sorry Buttwheat, just had to get that out. Please forgive me. 🙂
I never went to college I barley made it through High school so please forgive my incompetency of this perplexing language of English. :confused: 😉
@buttwheat 120498 wrote:
I never went to college I barley made it through High school so please forgive my incompetency of this perplexing language of English. :confused: 😉
I’m hoping you intentionally spelt barely as barley to make your point and to poke fun at my nazi-ness. 🙂
@Sam-I-Am 120499 wrote:
Hi Iggy!
Art classes at collAge level may be appropriate here.
I’m a soup nazi.
Haha, clever. What in the hell is a soup nazi?
Thanks Shuketi, keep us posted! (please don’t call me sir!)
Iggy,
Television show “Seinfeld” had an episode with a soup chef so anal about his soup that if you did not order it in a precise manner he would refuse to sell it and ban you from his shop. He was the “soup nazi”.
I make a lot of different soups and other things for different events. My friends sometimes refer to me as the “soup Nazi”.
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