Tattooist Critiques His Own 5 Year Tattoo Progression + How To Improve Your Technique Quickly!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video I share with you my first ever tattoo practice skins plus take you through a 5 year tattoo progression with a snapshot of my portfolio with commentary! Also I'll be giving you the best advice to progress really quickly with your tattoo work!
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Bro you seem like such a genuinely friendly person in your videos, thank you for all the advice you’ve been putting out over the past few years, really helped me a lot!!
Thanks for the amazing comment and for your continued support of the channel!
The progression from that day of dead thigh piece to the next realism piece is incredible.
Thank you!
You’re such a great guy, I honestly love watching your videos, they give me so much confidence as a new tattooist and you’re so down to earth which I really rare these days. Thanks Jono keep these vids coming.
This is why I'm here. Honesty, and progressing naturally. Not comparing yourselves to these photorealism gods and goddesses. There ain't nothing wrong with being a flash artist. If you do it well. It is honest, good work. It's fine. I've posted all my first skins. I have no issue with a timestamp on improvement.
I've been tattooing for 10plus years and I just wanna say thank you and I highly respect you for doing wat Yu do... hopefully one day I can get some work from you
I’m really pleased with how you doing your work. I’m my worst critic thank you for being real
Looks like a natural progression, the best portrait artist I know told me they are far darker than you perseve them to be and he is right
Your videos are so motivating and refreshing. Some other tattoo artist videos act so entitled
Out of all the tattoo videos that I have watched, Jono's videos are the most informative and easy to understand. I especially like the advice at the end of this video.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much!! I love your videos and really needed this one today! I appreciate how honest and down to earth you are, keep them coming!
Thanks for the awesome feedback and thanks for watching!
I am at the beginning stages of your journey, I did my first tattoo which was coincidentally a heart a few weeks back and I thought you were describing my experience! Thanks for giving us the reassurance and confidence in ourselves by humbly sharing work from your early days. I'm super excited to see what my work looks like in the next 5 years!!
It’s an exciting journey to be on! I wish you all the luck in the world with your tattoo career. Thanks for watching!
I did my very first tattoo 😊 on my own hand, yesterday. I'm fifty eight years old 😂😂 and I am enjoying my new job. I'm going to help people with the transition, pivotal moments, and various crossroads of life, by the permanent markings of their skin. I'm really going to have fun and see where I am led in my own journey ☺️ it's not about being anything great, but all about being ME. I wish everyone the very best of everything in the trying times we live in 🥰
I appreciate your videos bro, I’ve subscribed to you and been watching your videos over the last couple months as I’ve been learning to tattoo on myself and my wife. I was getting discouraged recently and watching this video today gave me back the hope I had when I first started and I really do appreciate that.
Eazy DC stick at it! Remember it’s a marathon not a sprint. Thanks for watching!
Loved this video jono!! Thanks so much for your candour, much appreciated 😁🖤
Martina Jay thanks for the great feedback and for watching!
Thank you so much for sharing! I enjoy all of your videos and all your advice is very much appreciated!
AmberThrun thanks for watching!
Love the videos, man. "we're just drawing on people's skin". Exactly. Take the job seriously, but don't forget to have fun.
I wish I had you as a teacher right now bro I have loved art all my life I finally started believing in myself and started pushing myself to do what I love just watching your videos keeps pushing me to keep at it.bro having disabilities has kept me from holding a job and its killing me and my family they needed to do good I just wanted to say thank you so much for making these videos without you bro I wouldn't be learning anything at all
Top lessons here, thanks again for the great true and positive kind words 👊🏼❤️
Love your videos and teaching style Jono, authentic and real. As a novice, your channel is becoming my essential learning guide, keep up the great work.
Ron Lawson thank you! It’s comments like these that make the channel worth doing.
Love this so much, thank you for your honesty and insights ❤️
Thanks for watching!
I'm really enjoying your channel content. I have subbed MANY teachers, but I am watching three the most and you placed there today. Can't say thanks enough, and showing mistakes the way you do is often a better way to teach, than to focus on getting it just right!
Thanks for the awesome feedback!
Great video thanks for the perspective and positivity! 🙏 much respect!
Thanks for watching!
Brilliant video, thank you for sharing!
Wow my favorite video from you so far! Well done!!😁
Thank you!
That’s a great bit of advice 👌👍 ps, I really enjoyed looking at ur 1st bits of work
Thank you!
thank you my friend, another great video, and above all very original to review your progress in tattooing, it gives me confidence in myself..n above all continues to produce quality content like this one. friendships
Thanks for the great feedback. I’m glad you’ve took something positive from this video.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed watching this one. Good job.
Thanks for watching!
Still the best!!! Love your Vids and also help lot, not only with tattooing but also to inspire us not to give up tattooing! Keep it up mate!
Thanks for the great feedback!
Very good tattoos!!!!!! You are a great artist!!! Thanks to show us yours first tattoos, looks good!! 👍🏼
Thank you!
Thankyou eo much for doing this, Really interesting to see were you had come from till now. Brilliant!¬
This is fantastic! It really helps someone new like me feel like I'm starting where others have.
Thanks for watching!
I have the same tattoos in my closet two thanks for your wisdom my friend I watch all your videos. We all started in a kitchen tattooing friends and family I would love to go back and fix alot of my first tattoos
Thanks for the video again, I started the same way :)
Thanks for watching!
i really liked the video.I,m very happy to see one of yours,even though I,ve watched it before,be good,cao.
you're the man juno
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
You say it’s horrible but I look at it compared to me just starting recently and it’s very similar. It gives me a lot of hope to see how much you’ve improved. Can’t wait to keep watching your videos they’ve helped me a lot
Also that first portrait looks amazing. I have the hardest time with them
Thanks for the awesome comment!
Thank you. I needed this, my dream is to become a tattooist and I'm struggling with harshly criticizing myself
Hi my Name ist Patrick,i'am on the Road to tattoartist. You had the Same Problems Like me at Your beginnings!
I'am learning Autodidakt,in Komplete Austria i dont find a tattoo Shop for learning to be a tattoartist!
So i must learn it on my own,with Tutorials. So i want say THX to you for Your great and helpfull content!!!
TH-cam have some real good Channels those have good Tutorials ! I learned realy Well and i am on the right way. Sorry for my Bad English i am from Austria/ Vienna(German language)
Thank you for Your great videos you Help so many ppl with the Same Dreams!
God bless you and Your Loved ones.
Greetz from Austria Vienna, Patrick 😉✌️💪🇦🇹
Thank you for the great comment!! Good luck! 🇦🇹
Great vid, Thanx again bro..
Thanks Skin!
I'm so grateful for this because i've been losing my mind, i've had a couple shaky lines and patchy shading but i'm taking a break and going back to tattooing practice skin daily.
That's a really good attitude to have. Good luck with it all!
Thats so funny! My first tattoo on skin was a heart as well!
Real great vid🙏
Thanks!
This is brilliant mate👍thanks for sharing this 👍I thought your first one was good for a first go at it👍
Thank you! Yeah I wanted to share this to give balance to show people it’s alright not to be perfect and to give people a real perspective on progression. Thanks for your continued support!
@@JonoSmithTattoo no probs mate 👍
Awsome I got the first piece of practice skin and now I will keep them and I stopped 10 years ago so back then we went straight to real skin lol
The norms fooking amazing
Great vids!
Thank you so much for this I just found out last year that this is what I'm suppose to be doing for the rest of my life and I'm not mad I say that to say this I've been on and off tattooing for a year now and I have my hiccups as far as if I'm going to deep in the skin and my shading I know that it won't happen over night but I am putting in work and what I do tattoo my friends do like it but I pick my work too thank you for this video and I will never give up on my artistry I will continue to grow have a bless day and again thank you
Latanya Davis good luck with it all and thanks for watching!
Nice job brother, keep it up
Thanks!
Great advice buddy
Thanks for watching!
Great, you got better really fast.🤯 At your beginning (and now) you shaded tones by mixing black color or with different colors? Or just different needle depth in skin?
Every help needed!💋
thank you for this
Thanks for watching!
You are loved jono
Thank you!
No worries bro I see a big difference in my tattooing career
Wise words.
The Clown is AMAZING 🤩
I really like the wolf at 10:00
this video is very inspiring video. i like that very much jono. don compare your work to others. tha'ts the punch line is very sink in my mind. good video jono. i love this. safe safe. 👌💪☝️
Thanks for the awesome feedback!
it's ok buddy. this is a llitle beat comment than your very helpful video tutorial. 😁
Thank you
Hahah the heart on the toe true I always would be like drenched in sweat and like so nervous always tatting hopefully I calm down or I won’t even pursue it again
fuckkk yeahh dudeeee this is fucking sickkk love your videosss thank you so muchhhh
Thanks for watching!
I looked at my tattoos from five years ago yikes ....ur brave my man brave
I suppose we all started somewhere 🤣 Thanks for watching!
@@JonoSmithTattoo no problem ive seen alot of cats get discouraged that was real kool of u bro a lot of our aprendices have the sweats and get really discouraged after that first tattoo and its like no one does magic their first tattoo..its an unspoken truth u just got yo trust the process
Thriller tattoo cracked me up, gj all around man. Nice ot see the improvement journey! Whats your insta?
Thanks for watching! Insta @jonosmithtattoo
I'd be so chuft with that lady bug. Looked like a pencil sketch. So cute
Thank you! 😃
U had the talent since the beginning
The portrait of the kid was good
Thank you!
😂😂😂 love it!!
I'm only saying love it because you're not afraid to show your old work everybody's got to start somewhere
I am admittedly a scratcher
Thanks
You are my portrait teacher! Way better than Kat Von D.
Cheers!
Roses still stress me out!!
Hi just wondering how long you have been tattooing for
bruh your first practice skin looks already good, mine roasts itself
fmstyle thanks dude! Hey we’ve all got to start somewhere!
Do a video on placement please
I’ll put your suggestion on my to do list.
The bold outline that makes a tattoo look like a sticker is something I want to practice right away. Please direct me to some good teaching?
If you watch my video on how to tattoo bold lines it should put you in the right path. Thanks for watching!
If you have any advice on how I can correct the depth of my needle I will take all I can get. I just can’t seem to get it right, either the tattoo falls out or it’s to deep I just can’t seem to hit that sweet spot.
Eazy DC I’ve actually got a big video uploading tomorrow which might help you out with this. It covers everything you need to know about tattoo ‘hit & bog’. Other than that the other advice would be, it’s always better to be too shallow than too deep, so slowly build up those lines until the ink looks solid. It really is a case of persistence, practice and patience too. Good luck with it!
I tattooed lines on my practice skin and it's like the needle got "stuck" sometimes so it also looked like chewed up.. Idk why this happens? Last time it worked without problems. I used the same speed and needles
Try retracting the needle slightly and this should fix your issue.
Wow there really good bud even ur first peace are good i hope i can get that good one i hope. Ur really really good at doing face so much detail I'm not the best at face all ways look cartoony lol . One thing I find it really hard even with pencil i can't do animal hair or birds feathers when i do it comes out crap any tips lol
Thank you! I think with anything realism it’s best to try get it looking good on paper first and then moving forward to tattoo it. First learning to do it on paper will give you a greater understanding of how the shades work etc. The vast majority of it literally just comes down to practicing over and over again. There’s not really a quick fix. Maybe do a bit of research on how to draw realistic portraits and things like this. These type of drawing lessons will massively improve your tattooing. The thing to bear in mind with realism is that most subjects don’t have an outline. If you give a realism tattoo an outline it will start to look cartoony.
@@JonoSmithTattoo o right so no out line ok probably where I'm going wrong then. Im still trying to work on my shading still at mo its better then it was but not good enough in my eyes. I did think about doing a art class after work might help me get better. I got tattoo machine so i can work online work getting that down to tea on fake skin then when i got rest of my drawing to tea then i can try it out on fake skin practice practice i hopefully i I'll get there lol. Thanks again bud ur real big help 😁
That’s a great attitude working towards it. Well done! 👏
@@JonoSmithTattoo aw thanks bud. i all ways try my best it doesn't all way work out but I'm gunna give it a good go tho 👍😁
All good tattoo artist have a ton of bad tattoos on the legs lol
Woud you recomend drawing for improve tattoing?
I’d absolutely recommend that yes. It will improve your tattoos loads. Also painting is even better.
Im thinking of opening a shop..
How many clients must you tattoo in order to pay the Rent of the shop plus electric bill , buy supplies need, and also give yourself a decent paycheck monthly or must you keep a day job to cover your ass to ensure a paycheck weekly?
This is different for almost everyone so I can’t give you a definitive answer. There’s so many factors involved as monthly costs like building rent can vary massively depending on size & location. There’s also insurance costs, license fees, business tax to name a few as well as your personal costs at home. Some tattooists price ‘per job’ and others have a set hourly fee but again it’s all down to personal preference. With a busy successful studio you shouldn’t need or even have time for another job. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching!
@@JonoSmithTattoo Thank for answering you have a awesome channel
Were you an artist beforehand or learned along the way?
I used to draw pencil portraits before becoming a tattooist.
I went to Utat too in Sheffield and that skull design on the begining of your video is the exact same one he got me to do on fake skin. Weird!
It’s classic flash that.
@@JonoSmithTattoo Probably why he used it maybe. Fantastic seeing your progression right from the start thanks again . 👍
Do you have any videos or advice on voltage for pen/ rotary machines ?
If check out my other videos and watch ‘Tattoo Machine What Voltage?’ This will tell you everything you need to know. Thanks for watching!
Jono pls sponsor me a real tattoo machine😔
I want to learn how to tattoo and i dont have money to buy a tattoo equipments and that sucks
go to earn some mate, basic kits to learn are not expensive
uzutex balderas eBay bro you can prolly get a shitty ass machine and work your way up
I started with a £30 dragonfly clone kit off of ebay it was not the best by a long shot but I didn't want to invest much incase I didn't carry on, it got the job done and I learned the basics with it all and replaced it with a bishop v6 later on