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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject: Art Majors in Tattooing |
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| Ok, this is my first post and im obviously a noob so thanks for noticing, I have no interest in handling a needle at this point. I want to learn to draw and develope as an artist before I consider working with peoples skin. I am an art major and my question for the pros is how many of you were art majors and how much did you benefit from offered college courses in relation to tattooing? |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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I noticed your post, and just joined the forum today......lol.....
I would not consider myself a professional tattoer and I've not taken any college courses in art, but I've been airbrushing for about 9 years and tattooing for about 3. I, myself, have come to appreciate the self-training I've given myself by reading and studying many many artists and their styles to develop my own skills. You can learn much from others, by simply looking at their artwork. I will, however, discourage anyone from copying someone elses original designs! If you ask permission to use someone elses artwork, and that permission is granted, that is one thing, but please, for the sake of originality, do not steal from others (damn, where did that come from.......lol)
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| yea duplication is pretty easy for me, its where i discovered what little talent i have. As far as looking at a picture on say a computer screen and putting pencil to paper it comes out looking pretty good. But its not like im publicizing this stuff as my own or even showing it to people other than close friends. What im chasing is techniques to work on and just generally stuff to spark creative interest. I love looking at reputable artist work and seing how close i can come, but that got boring fast and im now looking for new ways to vent my creativity. |
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| Although I know plenty of talented artists who did not go to an art institute, it should be quite obvious at this juncture that there are FAR MORE than enough "tattooists" out there who lack any style of their own. |
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SpenceW
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| i agree, ive seen many a tattoo parlor where you can go in and pick something off the wall and have them stencil it on you and trace with a needle. What i dig is the people who run tattoo studios and put pieces of art on something more meaningful than dead parchment. |
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ya, I agree that the serious magician artists (if you will) like Paul Booth or lets say Guy Aitchison f'n rock. Though they probably had some schooling art is like most professions in the sense that once you have the basic skills, on the job training is where it is at
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| exactly, and why not get on the soapbox about fools trying to get an apprenticeship when they have no business in the business, an apprenticeship is a chance to further your knowledge not leach off of a talented artist and hope they can teach you a thing for two, i think of an apprenticeship as a mutual relationship where one party has experience to share with a novice who is already educated. |
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ok...back to the initial question that was posed.... I'm actually taking college courses in graphic design right now, as well as being an apprentice. In my opinion, taking a basic drawing class, along with a color and 2-D design course are great ideas for tattoo artists. They teach you fundamentals that transfer over extremely well to tattooing (variation of line, color choice, depth and shadow, proper perspective use, ect). I'm not saying it's a "requirement" per se', but it definately isn't the worst idea.
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| thanks cx thats what i plan on doing, majoring in art until im satisfied with my drawing which hopefully wont take all 4 years and try to get some kind of minor in business. Thanks for the replies |
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