I'm speechless!!! That is beyond amazing. Thanks for all the advice & help, hope all is well, take it easy

This is an amazing tip and will definitely help me in the future! Thank you

Amazing bro 🙏🏽

Genius idea, never thought of it like that before. Thanks

This has helped me since 2010, I used to take a pic on my I Mac at the shop then convert it. lol It helped me so much. Now, I buy only secondary primary colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and magenta.) I buy blue, green, red, violet in DARK only in 4oz sizes. Cheaper and keeps your color theory skillz tight by mixing everything.

I have always been drawn to black & gray (monochromatic) until recently when I saw some Neo-Traditional tattoos that blew me away. I am hoping to expand to using colors and this video has certainly explained so much. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, it is much appreciated! 🙏 Poppy

That is actually really cool trick !!

This is an awesome advice! Thank you so much ☺️

This is an awesome color choosing trick!

Honestly the fact that you actually use black is awesome, i see aloooot infact TOOOO many artists scared to use black lol hopefully this video will help them cuz i never thought of the way you put it

Same here Tyler. I'm not a color type dude, actually to do color makes me nervous! This here is a really good idea! I would've never thought of this. Honestly though thinking about doing color still makes me nervous lol. Awesome video as always much much RESPECT!

Dude that was an amazingly helpful trick that I will definitely be using . Thank u.

Woah. Thanks for this

Awesome.thanks

That is a really great trick

Thankyou so much!!!!

thanks man

Ok this is a really dope helpful hack. Thanks dude

Bro..... I love you so much right now. Thank you.

This is my biggest weakness.....colour!!! Thanks for the video!!!

Dude this changed my brain!

I just think what shades/colors color pencil packages have = light blue, dark blue, light green, dark green etc. And go with them pretty much :D Always light and dark version of same color. It gives me enough ink cups for color tattoo.

thanks bro

Ayyy goood video

Why have I not thought about this before? I do UI design for webpages and I frekkin do the same thing there! hah! Thanks man! also: whats that stand you use for your ink?

Quick tips around color; this might not work fully depending on how the phone is finding that value. ( Some software won't factor in the vibrancy of the color and will just drop the saturation of everything to 0 which can end up feeling like you have a palette that's missing something and isn't a 100% representation of what that would look like in black & white. ) Some color has inherent value and is perceived as brighter/ darker even if the value is the exact same by our eyes. So when you put these two colors next to each other they have a relationship and are perceived differently because they are next to each other. ( ex. Blue looks much darker than yellow even if the value/ brightness on a phone shows they are the exact same. You might have seen optical illusions that take advantage of this. ) So you can also use this to your advantage as an artist! An easy way to do this is something I like to do called hue-shifting; where you shift the hue of the darkest tone slightly colder and darker on the color spectrum and move your lightest tone slightly warmer and lighter. ( You can do this inversely as well if you want a cold light, like in my example below. ) If you want to add another layer, light tends to desaturate colors, so your most vivid, saturated colors should be in your shadows; and then desaturate as you get closer to the light. Here's an example, let's say I'm going for a complementary palette of Blue and Orange; I'm going to make the shadow Orange and maybe like a blue flame for the light source? I would shift the darkest orange into more of a blood orange, and the brightest blue to more of a teal, but keep mid-tones for both of these colors that aren't shifted. And graduate through the four colors Red-Orange -> Orange -> Blue -> ( Blue-Green/ Teal ). This is a simple explanation of some stuff in color theory, color was scary at first, but once you learn how to work with it; I've seen people do wicked stuff~ Nice video, and thank you for being out here educating us on tattooing!

Great trick but just to complicate things a little bit more dont forget about complementary colors and warm and cold colors just to top it off.

Been practicing on fake skin with color for awhile and I have it smooth with the transition but it seems like I can't get the color to really pop an it's flat an doesn't look bright..any advice??

Nice tip! I'll put it to the test next time I drop some ink. I like bold contrasts, so I choose my ink based on that premise. I guess that means I think in color? I recently considered UV ink (for myself) to go over older tattoos in order to bring another dimension to them... and then I watched a video by James Withee, on the subject of UV ink. To say that I'm now hesitant would be an understatement. What's your take on UV ink? Such as longevity and health, and which ink would be best suited to meet those requirements. Your answer will likely be "none" but I've gotta ask. Apparently some artists mix a UV powder in their ink to obtain the effect. Any knowledge on what that powder is? Also, biologists (?) use UV encapsulated in PPMI (?) plastic to mark fish for tracking/counting purposes... so I hear. The thought of putting plastics inside the body, on top of the micro plastics already riddled within our bodies just doesn't seem healthy. Just thought I'd mention another form of UV ink.

Great info my brother keep it come and I agree im more black and gray but you have to be a jack of all trades now day lol I don't mind color but now that you just showed me this trick. I think I really injoy doing color

Would you recommend I buy a tattoo gun before I get an apprenticeship, I've heard mixed things so far.

Say pal where did you get your racks?

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What's the racks you use to hold all your inks in?

Also are you going to pick up the FK MAX NEED A REVIEW FROM YOU

That my friend is genius 🫡