thank you 🙏

you're welcome

I love to hear that. Keep working and improving your new style. never be too satisfied! lets gooo

now I know of one more person that I've helped. thank you for letting me know

oh yes I use stencil now. I've gotten lazy haha. but first 3 years it was all hand stenciling. I recommend this for beginner tattooers. More experienced ones should still hand stencil(because there is never enough training) but I understand realistically its a time saver and who wants to hand stencil all the time?

(I googled it.) So right side meaning creative? I think each of us are born with different brain types(left/right). So yeah to get an idea of what it is you can read about it but... I don't think that is enough? Unless they teach you or something I'm not aware of. I bought a few Superanius artist's books but been too lazy to start reading those. I learned to draw koi from a book. They're useful so yeah read a book. So if that is not enough then I believe you must also try new things, experience positive and negative emotions in the farther ends of the spectrum, not near the middle. And different environment and stimuli. Sometimes things that will scare you even. That is all chaos/creativity. Be careful. Maybe I'm wrong but I think so. I don't know if I'm left or right brained by birth but I have experienced a lot of crazy things. I tend to be much more creative when I'm nervous, sad, lonely or angry. All negative emotions. Maybe we all are? 🤔 And more creative when I doze off, In the zone, exercising, showering and when I'm about to sleep. I don't recommend but I'm sure d**gs alter your senses and brain so maybe adds creativity? Be very careful. I think you can train it.

@@jjjaylud absolutely heartwarming of u to take the time to respond to me like this😭❤️ ur talent is insane and i’ll take ur advice to use and explore on a more emotional level with this. HAPPY HOLIDAYS KING

For General drawing anything is fine but for tattooing, specifically fineline, 0.5 and 0.3 mechanical pencils are great. If you can shade very smoothly with those then you’ll notice the skill translate well into smooth shading with fineline needles like 1RL or 3rl. The reason is both needle and pencil involves pressure/depth control for smooth shading and both are similarly thin for linework. I also sharpen normal pencils like 4B pencils so it has a fine tip. But you have to sharpen them often. Micron pens like the 005 and 1 have fine tips too to train linework with. But no good for shading because they only produce one tone(black) while the pencil produces many grey tones based on how often you layer it or how much pressure you apply(just like shading with the 1RL)

@@jjjaylud this is awesome advice !! Thank you so much for reading and responding!

The pencils brand is not important, cheap or expensive, you can draw also a crazy stuff with cheap pencils.

1) Short answer, yes. people have made some beautiful hyperrealistic drawings with those pens. 2) Long VERY PICKY answer: Id say that pen is closer to 3RL than to 1RL. the tip of that pen is built differently. sometimes its hard to tell where the ink is flowing out when you are marking the paper. I'm being very very particular but when you draw or tattoo for so long, and chasing accuracy more, these little differences start to matter more and more. I love the .03 lead pencil because you can feel exactly where the tip meets the paper when you angle it correctly(since even .03 lead can blunt out a little so you angle it to a sharper corner). it feels very much like how you can see and feel where the 1RL needle hits the skin to make the mark. I'm 8 years in tattooing and several years into drawing so maybe these tiny preferences matters to me a lot more than to others. but I hope this gives you some perspective anyways.

Kind of. But drawing is much easier to set up and you can do it anywhere and everywhere. it's like exercising in your back yard instead of getting ready for the gym to exercise. Maybe that is a good analogy.

Both are good though as long as you don't mind setting up to tattoo the fake skin every time. As long as you are exercising.