Sunday, 18 December 2016

Entry Two; Lining On A Banana

In these two videos, I ended up tattooing a two day old banana.
LINKS HERE:

Banana Lining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9CRDqdaCsw

Banana Stick & Poke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axF7SDm2PeI



Banana lining:
In this video it starts with me looking close up to the tattoo gun where you can see I’m trying to get the gun ‘ghosting’. This is what determines how deep the needle goes in to the skin.
If the tattoo gun isn’t ghosting well, it’ll sound deeper and almost more dilute when t really needs to sound like the pitch of a fluorescent light buzzing except louder



Banana Stick & Poke:
In this one you can see I’m using a round liner but it’s thicker (whch is less ideal for stick and pokes but hey, learning experience).
You can see and hear when I pull out there’s a picking noise; that’s what you should hear when doing a stick and poke.
When stick and poking you want to stretch the skin as much as you can and come in from a 45 degree angle, and when you pull out you should raise the needle up (that’s how you ehar the skin picking). This wipes the ink that’s still on the needle into the hole in the skin. However, be careful not to pull up too hard as it could rip the skin and make a deep trench that the ink won’t settle into.

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