How do you go about becoming a tatoo artist?

Posted on February 25th, 2010 by admin

I’m just curious, how do you go about becoming a tatoo artist? Where can you go to have tatoo artist lessons and obtain a license?

Buy the equipment — it’s not too expensive. Practice on fruit. I’ve heard grapefruit works well. Then practice on yourself. Then get a friend to volunteer. You may not have as hard a time as you think if you’ve practiced a lot and did one or two pieces OK on yourself.

Then worry about getting a license, if such is necessary where you live.

At least that’s what I’d do. I have one or two people I know who’ve started and made decent progress. I’m more of a painter but one of my favorite artists started to do tattoo work and has posted some of it and maybe some other information (I vaguely remember) on her page

http://queen-of-fables.deviantart.com/

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  1. Mr. WackyDoodle Says:

    Buy the equipment — it’s not too expensive. Practice on fruit. I’ve heard grapefruit works well. Then practice on yourself. Then get a friend to volunteer. You may not have as hard a time as you think if you’ve practiced a lot and did one or two pieces OK on yourself.

    Then worry about getting a license, if such is necessary where you live.

    At least that’s what I’d do. I have one or two people I know who’ve started and made decent progress. I’m more of a painter but one of my favorite artists started to do tattoo work and has posted some of it and maybe some other information (I vaguely remember) on her page

    http://queen-of-fables.deviantart.com/
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