Hey! From what I have seen, there is not really ONE way to become a tattoo artist, and in fact as I’m saying that I can say there is only one way: to become a tattoo artist you have to tattoo. It sound really like Captain Obvious, but most of the great tattooists I’ve seen and asked didn’t make an apprenticeship when they were beginning. You just have to try, tattoo some oranges then some pork skin if you want to “feel” your machine, but then tattoo some people, and if you have, you know as me how different it is ahah. Sooo, all that to say, I was advised by some tattoo artists to stop writing “beginner” on my bios, because you spend most of your carreer in tattoo learning things. I tattoo since a year and half, and I’m absolutely not near to perfection in terms of technique, and I’m as you practicing (on people) (consentant ones). I’m paid now because if they’re not perfect, my tattoos are correct and sometime good and sometime great (and the more I’ll tattoo, the greatest they’ll become!).I don’t have technique tips, cause I’m not near you to see you tattooing, so I guess I’ll just say: have a good material, spend some money on it, it will pay soon. Watch some videos on yt of people tattooing (they’re not all pro, stay critical), if you need real advices, go talk to tattooists, if you can ask them to watch you tattoo they can be really helpful, do an apprenticeship if you feel like it, and don’t forget plsss to learn about hygiene it’s the most important!!! (in France there are formations about hygiene in tattoo, I don’t know for other countries)
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