Guy aitchison reinventing the tattoo pdf download

Start your week off right! Bring whatever you are working on for the day, a tattoo design for your next session, or something just for fun, and beam into the Zoom call to hang out with everyone while they wake up and get creative together. Or draw along at home, or simply watch and learn about tattoos, and what goes into great tattoo designs.

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This will be a judgment free, positive atmosphere for all artists to show off and meet some new people. Enjoy the end of the weekend the right way, with a group drawing session.

The section on machines has almost tripled in size, including many new diagrams. The technical parts of the book also contain a number of new troubleshooting checklists, which detail ways to work through problems with machine performance, ink flow, precision, etc.

This is followed by the chapters showing step-by-step execution of some tattoos; although this includes some of the same pieces as the first edition, the chapters are all upgraded and a number of new pieces have been added, including two magnum-first projects and an example of a project on a difficult body part- the neck.

One very noteable addition to the book is the DVD. At 40 different times in the book, the reader is instructed to watch the corresponding video clip. These vary in length fro 16 seconds to 5 minutes, and are meant to be watched as an accompaniment to the book rather than a stand-alone educational video.

These clips feature closeup footage of tattooing, painting and other subjects, and include a voiceover by Guy explaining the content of the footage. These clips are also accompanied by a musical soundtrack featuring the music of Sunchannel, Satchi Om and Ajja Leu.

So this isn't just a color version of the first edition with a few of the typos ironed out. This is a totally new educational package, based on the first edition.

It comes in a deluxe slipcase; all books are signed by the author. Q I've heard about a rebate for people who have the first edition A It's not just a collection of tricks- good tattooing is far more than just that. Guy does share quite a few small hints, suggestions and tricks that can help your work, but all of them are useful only in a larger context where the design and execution are all handled the right way.

Most importantly, this book and video aim to help gain a better artistic understanding, allowing for an easier grasp of better tattoo design, which is at least as important as good technique. In the technical parts of the book, the machine tuning area in particular, are details of developing a closer relationship with your equipment and a better feel for how small changes to its tuning can effect its performance. This isn't about tricks, but about a better understanding of your equipment.

Along with that comes less technical struggle, and when coupled with a better compositional skills makes for for stronger tattooing with way less struggle. Q I don't care about tricks, I just want to know what brand of colors Guy uses! A If you have a copy of the book, you'll have access to the Reinventing forums, where guy's latest pigment preferences are there along with discussions of many other subjects, most which are far more interesting than that. Here's the truth: There are many good brands of color on the market, and not that many bad brands.

Unfortunately the book has been out of print for a few years and we. If you think ahead you can often make use of the worst parts of the old piece in ways that make the coverup not only successful, but unexpected and original. The forum that was started in connection with the book has had contributions by hundreds of artists of all levels of experience.

Martin rated it it was amazing Nov 18, Although still following the same basic format as the first edition, the text has been trimmed down, cleaned up, expanded, illustrated and captioned to make for an educational experience unlike anything else available in the tattoo industry.

Chuck D rated it it was amazing Jun 08, A Yes it does, with the central focus of the forum being critiques, both of tattoos and of exercises from the Reinventing curriculum. We have the old one archived and are working on making it available as an archival resource, but it will no longer be an active forum. Who are these people? Eventually it was released as a stand-alone book, consisting of a page looseleaf bound black and white book plus a small number of color pages and web links to color versions of all the tattko black and white ttattoo.

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