I’m just getting into drawing traditional flash and I’m keen to learn new techniques and what equipment is best to use, this video is extremely inspiring!! Thanks☺️
Thank you for the kind words! Let me know if there's anything I can help you with, just DM me on Instagram @soberjoecollective. If you're looking for materials check out the link under the video for a list of materials I'm using.
Awesome, thinking about bringing this in as an assignment for my high school arts class as an excuse for them to create something they never would in another class and to teach them about tattoo history. Very cool.
This is amazing! I wish I could produce such a clean piece of art that quickly! And if no one else has mentioned it, I’d LOVE to see video/series on how to properly spitshade!
Thank you so much Sober Joe, you have helped me bring my art to another level. Sometimes you get lost trying to figure out what art material will work for you and what technique may help you improve. With your guidance, I feel like I am on the right track to make timeless and beautiful work. Thanks again Joe!
Your videos have really helped me I felt stuck while trying to do traditional designs but I feel more at ease when I watch your vids! Also didn’t realize how much I’d enjoy spit shading it’s way easier than what I was doing !!
Would love to hear more about spit shading. When I coffee stain, I use a teaspoon or two of instant espresso, with a little water. Gives a cool gritty look when applied with a foam brush. Also, I think it would be cool if you could provide a line drawing so we could do a “paint along”. Just an idea. Cheers.
Thank you for taking your time to comment. Your staining idea will definitely help someone reading through the comments. So I will make sure to pin it. The line drawing idea is really great and I will make sure to provide it with the next video. Thank you again!
Thanks Sober Joe, I’m a multi-gen, but traditionally schooled artist.“Tatted” friends have told me I should consider acquiring a Flash technique and putting some of my creations in a “flesh venue”. thanks for these tutorials. You have amazing skill, and have “earned your chops”. How can I find out more about the brushes and iPad and any software ect. Please mention it by name in a future video. Thanks. Grateful to see you work.👍🏻
Thank you! You can do it in thousand different ways, this is just my preferred way at the moment. Glad to be able to motivate you! New videos are rolling out weekly so make sure to check back! 👍🏻
Awesome video. Thank u so much. I am just getting into this type painting and hoping to tattoo someday. I would love to hear more about the spit shading as well.
I would love an in detail spit shade. If I just use spit it’s like it doesn’t pick up the ink and almost looks like tattoo pepper shading. If I use a little water it’s always just way too much and the blend ends up being a huge fade when I just want that little fade like you have here
hey Joe, nice video, very soothing and also thank god for the chill music. Would it be possible maybe to make another video, exactly like this but narrating the functions you use with the i-pad? that would be a lot of help for a beginner. Just a suggestion :) Thank you!
hey soberjoe love the videos and work I would love a video on the spit technique also would it be possible for Japanese tutorials many thanks and keep up the work
Love this video! I have been using Pigma Micron pens to outline my drawings..and I’m seeing some bleeding when it come to start painting it, how can I avoid bleeding of the outline into the color fill in? Is it the pens I’m using?
Hi. I think digital helps us a lot. I do most of the styles and now learning traditional and I would waste so much paper and if you use Archers, which is shit expensive here in poland you gonna waste a lot of money. So you sketch and train yourself digitally then switch to traditional. With oil or acrylic painting is slightly different. You paint and half of it just happens on itself.
Thank you so much for your videos man - watching your sketching workflow and your comments was really helpful! Which of the 3 Ph Martins sets do you think is most useful? I can only afford one and they aren't stocked in stores in my country...
Thank you for taking your time to watch and comment. I use different colors from each set . I can post later the names of each color you see in the video.
These are the colors I’m using in this video. Red - Dr. Ph. martins 5A Scarlet Red Yellow - Dr. Ph. martins 26B Golden Brown Green - A tattoo ink named Jade from Eternal mixed with a lot of water.
This might be a stupid question, but do you keep a bowl of spit on the side? Or do you just lick the brush? Just thinking when using the black ink brush you would stain your tongue or something haha
Hey boss, super-rad lesson. I really dug it. Quick question; It looks like you were possibly using a thicker liner pen on this flash piece (I could be totally wrong) than what was listed on the materials page on your site. I grabbed everything off your list but think my new liner (non-tapered, 1.0) may still be a bit too thin. Do you recommend a thicker pen for a medium to large piece like in this lesson? If so, what size? Thanks again man, you’re gnarly.
Hi man! Glad you liked it. I’m using a Copic Multiliner 1.0 (classic, not SP) isn’t this video and the design is painted on a A5 sized paper. Regarding line sizes it’s totally up to you. I like having a thick line while others might want to have a thinner one for better details. Show me your paintings over on Instagram, I’d love to see!
@@SoberjoeSe Hey, boss! Thanks for hitting me back! I wasn’t able to find the Copic liners in town, but I did grab some non-tapered 1.0s from the art store. Actually, after using the liners for a few more hours tonight, they really started to get a bit fatter and more uniform with each pull (plus, smoother on the watercolor paper). Mine might be a bit thinner than yours still, but I’ll keep experimenting. I know I’ll be able to better match pen widths to actual machine liner widths at some point, but now it’s unclear. As for sharing the paintings, nah, they’re for sure gonna suck for a while but, once they start looking almost decent, I’ll be sure to share for your thoughts and critique. Tear them apart man, I’ll need the corrections! Thanks again for getting back to me, Chief! Have a good one!
Just a quick question for an aspiring tattoo artist, would it be wrong of me if I copied just traditional flash tattoo designs from google to my portfolio that I’m making?? Cuz I’m not exactly sure how to draw certain things without looking at it really :/ but I don’t want to be looked at wrongfully…
Copying them straight off claiming it being yours is not the correct way of doing it. Study the design you like and try to redraw them a couple of times changing the things you don't like. Finally you will have altered them as your own design.
![How to IMPROVE your Tattoo Flash [Learn Spit Shading]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/i_J6MeG2uQY/mqdefault.jpg)
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I’m just getting into drawing traditional flash and I’m keen to learn new techniques and what equipment is best to use, this video is extremely inspiring!! Thanks☺️
Thank you for the kind words! Let me know if there's anything I can help you with, just DM me on Instagram @soberjoecollective.
If you're looking for materials check out the link under the video for a list of materials I'm using.
Awesome, thinking about bringing this in as an assignment for my high school arts class as an excuse for them to create something they never would in another class and to teach them about tattoo history. Very cool.
This is amazing! I wish I could produce such a clean piece of art that quickly! And if no one else has mentioned it, I’d LOVE to see video/series on how to properly spitshade!
Thank you very much for the kind words and I will soon make a video of me spit shading.
Man that staining is integral 👏🏻
Thank you so much Sober Joe, you have helped me bring my art to another level. Sometimes you get lost trying to figure out what art material will work for you and what technique may help you improve. With your guidance, I feel like I am on the right track to make timeless and beautiful work. Thanks again Joe!
Satisfying, well done!
This video is a masterpiece, thank you for sharing 🔥
Your videos have really helped me I felt stuck while trying to do traditional designs but I feel more at ease when I watch your vids! Also didn’t realize how much I’d enjoy spit shading it’s way easier than what I was doing !!
I love to hear that! Keep pushing it! Let me know if there's anything I can help you with!
The coffee!!! So cool, what a great idea. Love this whole video :)!
Thank you!
Would love to hear more about spit shading. When I coffee stain, I use a teaspoon or two of instant espresso, with a little water. Gives a cool gritty look when applied with a foam brush. Also, I think it would be cool if you could provide a line drawing so we could do a “paint along”. Just an idea. Cheers.
Thank you for taking your time to comment. Your staining idea will definitely help someone reading through the comments. So I will make sure to pin it. The line drawing idea is really great and I will make sure to provide it with the next video.
Thank you again!
Sober Joe thank you for the rad content!
🙏🏻
This was awesome, Joe! I’ve watched every video on your channel several times. This was one of my favorites.
Thank you for the kind words!
you are providing very high quality video that is why you are an artist. :D
Thank you!
So inspiring to watch! Wow! Thankyou for showing this process. ❤️
Thank you!
You're incredibly talented, proud to be a customer!
Thank you for the feedback! More videos are in the making!
beautiful design and a very helpful step by step. Thank you!
Thank you for watching and for the kind words! 🙏🏻
Thanks Sober Joe, I’m a multi-gen, but traditionally schooled artist.“Tatted” friends have told me I should consider acquiring a Flash technique and putting some of my creations in a “flesh venue”. thanks for these tutorials. You have amazing skill, and have “earned your chops”. How can I find out more about the brushes and iPad
and any software ect. Please mention it by name in a future video. Thanks. Grateful to see you work.👍🏻
Your videos are a god send, I appreciate you being open about your own artistic process mate!
Pipe tobacco stains well. Also love the smell of it. I just add a spoonful for a cup of boiling water. Test on scrap then mix as desired
good job !! thanks for share the knowledge greetings from Mexico
Thank you for watching! 🙏🏻
Man your videos are awesome. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful work
Te sigo desde argentina amigo, un trabajo fenomenal!!!! Te felicito Bro!!!
Glad to have you on here Kevin! Thanks for watching my videos!
sick tutorial, thanks for all the info
All of the flash looks great, especially when only the black shading has been applied (blackwork traditional fan here). Great work!
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Love the artwork! For sure I would love to learn more about spit shading!
Thank you! I'd love to do a video on spit shading soon.
This is incredible man ! Im currently teaching myself with american traditional and this is so helpful ! Would love to see more videos from you
Thank you! Yeah there are new videos coming as we speak!
Thank you ! Really opened my eyes on staining, I used to stain the whole sheet before. Keep up the videos, just got me motivated to get painting 🙏
Thank you! You can do it in thousand different ways, this is just my preferred way at the moment. Glad to be able to motivate you! New videos are rolling out weekly so make sure to check back! 👍🏻
Awesome video. Thank u so much. I am just getting into this type painting and hoping to tattoo someday. I would love to hear more about the spit shading as well.
Thank you for watching Richmond!
I would love an in detail spit shade. If I just use spit it’s like it doesn’t pick up the ink and almost looks like tattoo pepper shading. If I use a little water it’s always just way too much and the blend ends up being a huge fade when I just want that little fade like you have here
Great comment! I’m shooting a video as we speak about spit shading and will be available soon 👍🏻
Sober Joe thank you!!
Came across your page it’s fantastic and would love to see a tutorial on spit shading it’s on of the things I was weak at.
hey joe your ecoline looks more opaque then the regular ones that you buy from an arts and crafts store? do you add some type of solution?
Thank you broder! Really helpful!
No problem Jon!
This is an amazing resource thank you so much!
Brilliant.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
hey Joe,
nice video, very soothing and also thank god for the chill music. Would it be possible maybe to make another video, exactly like this but narrating the functions you use with the i-pad? that would be a lot of help for a beginner. Just a suggestion :)
Thank you!
I’m not a Pro at using the IPad but I can definitely share the things I know. 👍🏻
When you paint the black fades, you use watercolor or indian ink? Thanks in advance!!😊
Try Minwax Golden Oak stain. Put in a fine mist spray bottle and coat evenly.
Never heard of. Have to try it out.
Hello, can u tell me the golden brown code ? The last one the colored. I’m looking at this color thank you very much.
pleeease tell me more about the procreate brush setup :)
In one of my latest videos you can see me work more with Procreate!
@@SoberjoeSe thanks joe! I’m working on my flash rn so I’ll put it on while I’m working 🌱🙏🏻😎
Sick 🤙🏼🔥
Thanks! 🙏🏻
hey soberjoe love the videos and work I would love a video on the spit technique also would it be possible for Japanese tutorials many thanks and keep up the work
Hi! I just released a video on how to spit shade. th-cam.com/video/i_J6MeG2uQY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the comment!
@@SoberjoeSe thank you
Nice!
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
Have you used talen ecoline watercolour brush pens? Tossing up between buying those or the ink them selves
I haven't tried them out, sorry.
@@SoberjoeSe no worries thank you so much for the reply! Love your work
Thank you! 🙏🏻
love it! what brushes are you using?
Do you add water to ecoline?
Would i be able to get the same effect just using a brush marker?
Definitely!
Are you filling and shading with the winsor and newton drawing ink or with a black watercolor?
All blacks are Indian ink. 👍🏻
Hi Joe can i ask you witch software is this ? coplimenti per i tuoi video e un saluto da Roma....
Love this video! I have been using Pigma Micron pens to outline my drawings..and I’m seeing some bleeding when it come to start painting it, how can I avoid bleeding of the outline into the color fill in? Is it the pens I’m using?
Hi. I think digital helps us a lot. I do most of the styles and now learning traditional and I would waste so much paper and if you use Archers, which is shit expensive here in poland you gonna waste a lot of money. So you sketch and train yourself digitally then switch to traditional. With oil or acrylic painting is slightly different. You paint and half of it just happens on itself.
Absolutely! Digital drawing helps a lot with color studies as well!
love your videos! can i ask what the palette is that you used for ink? the hexagons
Thank you! They are called Hive-cups. Created for tattoo artists but I find them great for painting.
@@SoberjoeSe oh awesome thanks i’ll have to snag some of those. do you have an affiliate link? that way you get credit
I don’t but thanks for asking! 🙏🏻
I’m sure you figured it out, but there’s hive cups on Amazon. $20 for 200
Thank you so much for your videos man - watching your sketching workflow and your comments was really helpful! Which of the 3 Ph Martins sets do you think is most useful? I can only afford one and they aren't stocked in stores in my country...
Thank you for taking your time to watch and comment. I use different colors from each set . I can post later the names of each color you see in the video.
These are the colors I’m using in this video.
Red - Dr. Ph. martins 5A Scarlet Red
Yellow - Dr. Ph. martins 26B Golden Brown
Green - A tattoo ink named Jade from Eternal mixed with a lot of water.
If you don’t mind me asking what tablet are you using ?
I’m using an 12” iPad Pro 2019
What printer do you use to print out your design from the iPad?
Just a regular printer. Nothing fancy!
plain black tea for stain ;)
Do you make your own colors or do you find those matte colors in dr Phil Martins? I recently switched over to liquid acrylics for more pigment
Sometimes I mix my own Hues but oftentimes it’s straight out of the bottle.
What app are you using on the iPad ?
I’m using Procreate!
This might be a stupid question, but do you keep a bowl of spit on the side? Or do you just lick the brush? Just thinking when using the black ink brush you would stain your tongue or something haha
I'm using my mouth to add moisture to my brush. If doing correctly theres hardly any ink residue on that brush.
What pen are you using to line?
*silly me, just seen the description haha. Awesome work man!!
Yeah it's all there! 👍🏻
what’s the iPad program you’re using to sketch?
I’m using Procreate! It’s really the only one I’m using.
So where’s the spit shade video ? 😑 cool painting by the way real smooth 👏🏼
It's there!
what program on the ipad are you using?
I use procreate when using the ipad!
Hey boss, super-rad lesson. I really dug it. Quick question; It looks like you were possibly using a thicker liner pen on this flash piece (I could be totally wrong) than what was listed on the materials page on your site. I grabbed everything off your list but think my new liner (non-tapered, 1.0) may still be a bit too thin. Do you recommend a thicker pen for a medium to large piece like in this lesson? If so, what size? Thanks again man, you’re gnarly.
Hi man! Glad you liked it. I’m using a Copic Multiliner 1.0 (classic, not SP) isn’t this video and the design is painted on a A5 sized paper. Regarding line sizes it’s totally up to you. I like having a thick line while others might want to have a thinner one for better details. Show me your paintings over on Instagram, I’d love to see!
@@SoberjoeSe Hey, boss! Thanks for hitting me back! I wasn’t able to find the Copic liners in town, but I did grab some non-tapered 1.0s from the art store. Actually, after using the liners for a few more hours tonight, they really started to get a bit fatter and more uniform with each pull (plus, smoother on the watercolor paper). Mine might be a bit thinner than yours still, but I’ll keep experimenting. I know I’ll be able to better match pen widths to actual machine liner widths at some point, but now it’s unclear. As for sharing the paintings, nah, they’re for sure gonna suck for a while but, once they start looking almost decent, I’ll be sure to share for your thoughts and critique. Tear them apart man, I’ll need the corrections! Thanks again for getting back to me, Chief! Have a good one!
Make sure to save them for yourself so you can see the progress!
@@SoberjoeSe For sure, thanks man!
Perfeito
Thank you!
Hey , thanks for the content! Wich green are you using for this painting?
Hi! Thank you for watching! I'm using a tattoo ink called Jade from Eternal. It's heavily diluted with water to be able to paint with it.
Just a quick question for an aspiring tattoo artist, would it be wrong of me if I copied just traditional flash tattoo designs from google to my portfolio that I’m making?? Cuz I’m not exactly sure how to draw certain things without looking at it really :/ but I don’t want to be looked at wrongfully…
Copying them straight off claiming it being yours is not the correct way of doing it. Study the design you like and try to redraw them a couple of times changing the things you don't like. Finally you will have altered them as your own design.
@@SoberjoeSe thank you
What kind of pen is that?
What drawing tablet are you using?
Hi! I’m using an Ipas Pro 12.9”
What tablet/ app do you use
Ipad with Procreate. Check newer videos.