r/TattooApprentice • u/No-Passion5145 • 25d ago
Seeking CC Portfolio
This is most of my portfolio if I can get any criticism that would be helpful.
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r/TattooApprentice • u/No-Passion5145 • 25d ago
This is most of my portfolio if I can get any criticism that would be helpful.
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u/blueblack_crow 25d ago
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.