A statement is either universally accepted or based on hard fact, what you have mentioned regarding tattooing is neither, simply your opinion though valid enough through your experience. I still find it amusing that you haven't cottoned on to the fact that your are angry because you thought I was doing what you are now doing.
I was asking because a friend I used to know told me that tattoists use some form of tracing before the actual ink goes on and I wanted to know what that was.
Angry.....no
it is called a "stencil" it is the outline..... you transfer it to the skin and then try to follow the lines, it also can wipe off quite easy, like I said that is for your basic wall flash, 90% of the work I have done is freehand, no stencil, a quick pen drawing, then again I have done many tatts where there was no stencil..no lines, just grab the Machine and go to work.
and if my description of tattooing doesn't put into perspective the difficulty of doing good tattoos....nothing will.
you are working on living breathing canvases, that change over time.....
ya painting on the surface of a canvas that don't move.... is always constantly the same denseness, you don't have to actually paint INTO the canvas and worry about the surface sloughing off......
bah..... I typed way to much already
Well you knew exactly what I meant
I did, and nothing substitutes human skin.
best to work on yourself, the legs and whatnot....get the feeling then get 1 person to be a practice dummy....