We live in the age of social media. YouTube, one of the most important and used worldwide, has opened a world of possibilities. You may be wondering what social media, and especially YouTube, has to do with Tatuantes. As the headline of the article points out, I would like to talk about the rise and rise of the channels that publish video tutorials to learn how to tattoo.
Can you learn to tattoo with video tutorials? I admit it, I had a time when I closely followed several tattoo artists with very powerful channels in which to consult all kinds of videos in which they explained techniques and tricks to learn different techniques and issues related to the art of tattooing. Are they practical? Do you really learn? These are some of the questions that I would like to answer from my personal orbit.
Personally, and i guess following a more faithful idea of the «old school»I will say that to learn and be a good tattoo artist you have to follow several steps. The first of them is to have an important level in terms of drawing and art. And, if you don't know how to draw, how are you going to tattoo? If we have this quality or have achieved it through practice, the next thing is to become an apprentice to a tattoo artist who wants to show us and teach us his techniques.
Once we are an apprentice in a tattoo studio, we will have to practice and practice a lot on our own, tattooing ourselves as well as synthetic skin. To all this we can add, as "an addition" to the whole process of learning to tattoo the video tutorials that we can check on YouTube. They will not take away anything and it is possible that we will learn something practical that we can apply to our tattooing technique.
If you have no notions about it process of making a tattooWith these video tutorials you will be able to learn the basic questions but it is very unlikely that you will be considered a true tattoo artist if you have not gone through some of the phases mentioned above. Yes, it is true that there are "self-taught" people and many recognized tattooists have not been apprentices to anyone, but it is not the usual thing.