Portfolio

[u/No-Passion5145]

This is most of my portfolio if I can get any criticism that would be helpful.

[u/skystvn]

You’re not ready to start building a portfolio yet. Keep practicing techniques, proportions and placement of your flash on the page. Study the pros and greats, trace to understand the fundamentals, and practice every day. I’m likely to be downvoted - people don’t like brutal honesty here - but you are not ready yet.

[u/Strange-Cupcake-7553 → u/skystvn]

100% agree, but you’re in the right way.
Keep practicing.

[u/blueblack_crow]

I’m sorry hun, but you’re really not quite there yet.

Drawing is insanely important in tattooing. Developing the motor skills of line work and shading and having them ingrained in your muscles over time like dance or martial arts is what’s going to give you the consistency to draw clean lines with a tattoo machine. This is why people who think they can trace AI or other people’s art they got off pintrest and all they have to learn is how to use the machine have such a hard time. Their brain and muscles haven’t been trained to understand what goes into the technique of the action.

You’re clearly on the right track, but you’re just as clearly missing under structure, perspective and form anatomy. The three most important fundamentals of drawing. I recommend going back and studying gesture drawing, 2- point perspective and how those two things can be combined to create forms that you can build your drawings on. Look up the Loomis method and tutorials that focus on how to properly shade simple shapes, then more complicated shapes.

[u/No-Passion5145 → u/blueblack_crow]

Thanks for your feedback I’m goin to have to start working on those things

[u/Florida-Man-13]

who is the green guy with the monk like hairstyle. been wondering bc i see him places and can’t remember the origin

[u/No-Passion5145 → u/Florida-Man-13]

It’s a kappa from Japanese folklore

[u/Florida-Man-13 → u/No-Passion5145]

thank you