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Tattoo Shading The Black & Grey Wash Style Guide
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February 25, 2012 By 20 Comments
i got a new tattoo, my artist said to keep the A&D light and as little times a day as possible since its a black and grey shading tattoo. Then i heard washing it three time daily with A&D after is the right way. Any artists that know better ?
Ok only tattoo artist I have been tattooing for 3 years and im still having a small problem geting a very light gray wash. I have tryed using witch hazzel and green soap also a little white. Hell I even used detol. I use moms, pelican and prizm inks mostly. also if any one has done it how thin can u thin out kabuki shading and outline ink. So any help I normaly do color shading or all black style work. I have a out line of a bunch of spirles I did a year ago and would like to do a gray scale with out bying the set. So any help.
First of all your choice of inks are garbage. MOMs only has good blues or green. All pelican is cheap crap. And well prizm, run from that cheap superior tattoo starter crap. I suggest Alla Primo (new and the best I have used – great for washing), Intenze, Natural, DMC, StarBright.
When washing black for good fading using ur small cups make one solid, another 10 drops of black, and another 5 drops of black and wash with distilled water or green soap. The thing to use to mix, in your ink cup, is the loop from a needle bar. Put the loop end of the bar in the ink cup and spin in your fingers.
The main reason you are not getting good wash-outs is the cheap ink you are using. Some inks are expensive for a reason
I’ve been told that the lightest you can go is by mixing ink with green soap and for a darker shade to mix black ink with white i was told it was called grey washing would there be any bad effects to the skin/color if i blended the two together when trying to put the right shading into place
or if im way off im up for advice and i know im probably going to get alot about an apprentice gig but that didnt work out for me (im looking for another shop!)
didnt mean mixing them into one ink but thx for the xtra info!
Please stop mixing green soap into pigments. This is a skin irritant. You need to read the MSDS. In most cases your best bet is going to be distilled water.
Don’t mix black with white…the gray it makes is very opaque and for a wash you want it to be transparent.
Everyone has their own tricks…I just run my needle into the mix a bit and it is fine since sumi has such tiny ink molecules it behaves like a dye anyway, so it is super soluble, but if I am mixing colors, I mix with toothpicks…the ones that are in little wrappers…they are nice and clean inside – I use them for so many things, especially if I am tattooing someone’s eyebrows on and I want to try on a bit more in a certain area before I commit it to the skin. I am addicted to my toothpicks. I happen to feel shearing needle groupings from a needle bar opens one up to a needle stick injury and even if it is not contaminated, it is something to always avoid. OSHA has an interpretation on this and it is strictly forbidden, besides.
Anyway, I also keep a large cap or two with distilled water in it and dilute as I go very often if I want to really soften things out, but this is pretty much an advanced technique that you have to get used to.
Just remember that the longer the filled caps sit on the work station, the more they evaporate so keep that in mind. Remember to clean out your tube often in distilled water, too, to keep all the debris out. I actually prefer to use a saline solution because it really cuts the gunk from the tube but I do a lot of face tattooing, especially on the lips so I really need to clean out my tube very often.
I got a tattoo done about 4 days ago, portions in all black and portions in “shaded” grays. This was professionally done and I’ve seen his work. I’ve done a good job taking care of it but the shaded part does not look shaded at all. It is more “flesh” color. Does the shading come out more as it heals? He even said he used a washed down black color to make it more “gray” but at this point I just don’t see it. Any help? I see a lot of posts have concern about shading being too dark and wanting it to lighten up where I’m just the opposite. I want to see it get darker over the next few days. Grant it, if it doesn’t go darker I can always go back for touch up – so my issue is less drastic. Just waiting to see more shading, shadowing or gray colors.
i have 3 tattoo’s and they all have some shading in them but none of my shading faded as it healed..I would just go back and get the shading touched up to be darker.
what tattoo pigment is the best for trabal tattoos. nice and deep black! also what grey wash or shading ink are the best to use and look great. please be helpful i appriciate your help thanx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uy2lyWo7II
funny
I got a tattoo 3 days ago and when i first got it done, the shading under neath the script was a light black/ dark gray, but still lighter than the script itself….it pretty much just shadowed the letters. well now 3 days later….i washed my tattoo to clean it and when i was finished some of the damn shading was gone?! what the hell does this mean?! please comment back if you have any helpful info! thanks
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The shading on my tattooo is goonee….it literally scabbed and there is NO shading
Lol, tattoos are supposed to fade naturally over time. The guy who did it perhaps didn’t go deep enough for the ink to stay. Go back to the shop and tell them what happened, they’ll fix it for you, I’m sure.
The tattoo is just under three days old. It still looks fine and it’s not red at all, but I notice little bitty black flakes coming off when I wash it and apply the A&D. I’ve followed my artist’s instructions and am switching to Lubriderm (unscented) tomorrow, like he told me to. I’ve been apply the A&D three times a day and the tattoo isn’t getting dry, but it sometimes feels a little rough when I apply a fresh bit of A&D and the black flakes kinda have me worried.
Is this the scab that everyone talks about? It doesn’t hurt at all, and it’s not all over the tattoo, just where the shading is heaviest (the tattoo is done in blake and grays).
yea
it just means your tattoo is pealing. thats normal
keep rubbing your a&d… personally i use just plain lotion on mine. dont rub too much on, juts a thin layer enough to keep it moist
if the ink starts leaking that is normal to just put two fingers in water and whipe the tattoo…
I happen to get one of my very first tattoo’s this past Saturday. So it’s been a total of 4 days. The tattoo is on the back of my right hand, all black, tribal tattoo.
I had begun to notice around my tattoo, had this light gray shade. As if someone had shaded around it. Is this normal? It looks as if the color had seeped out, and just gradually faded.
I wash the tattoo one time a day, and apply A & D, ointment, whenever it get’s dry. That is what my tattoo artist gave me to use.
I am beginning to wonder, if my body doesn’t take tattoo’s to well. I don’t know if this has to do with anything, but I am also a Vegetarian.
Any tattoo artist who would tattoo someones HAND for one of their first tattoos is not a responsible tattoo artist. What you are describing sounds like a blowout which even a competent artist can run into when tattooing an area as difficult as someones hand. Doesn’t surprise me that it happened to you. There isn’t really anything you can do about it other than getting the area reworked but you should definitely go to someone more experienced for that.
now before some asshole rolls around and leaves a good ole jackass comment understand one thing i am an apprentice in the state of tn. that being said i like kuro sumi myself but was considering using starbrite but with all the negative issues going on with the pigment mixture and this and that i am looking for a safe good cheap brand of tattoo ink to use on the side. i like doing black and white tattoos so i am looking for a good dark black to use, not a big fan of color tatts and i use my regular black to shade also instead of a grey wash. but i am looking to do a tribal piece and want a few suggestions on what other artists like to use. opinions are like noses damn near everyone i know has one so let me get what you think about what inks. nice comments appreciated. assholes who wanna downgrade me move onto the next question. thanks! also i use a hildbrandt machine, works pretty good but prolly gonna move to a mickey sharpz within the next few months….
dude u wouldnt stand a chance
you can believe what u want but dont be bitter that you’re not as good of an artist as i am. i have the talent that very few posess and have outdid the artist im working for but as i once heard you will never meet a tattooo artist that isnt an asshole, so thanks for the asshole comments and i will stick with my kuro sumi inks, and you retards keep being assholes. its actually good for your health to let some of your frustration out. have a good one and thanks for the asshole suggestions may your tattoos rot your arms off!!!!!
Are you serious? I use Eternal inks. They all cost about the same. Four ounces for around twenty bucks. Starbrite is good stuff. You’re making a mockery of the industry. Please spew your profanity somewhere else.
just got new tattoo last night…and we decides on a really supper light grey wash for the background…i showed him the shade i wanted but mine seems to be too dark, it is solid thick black…the artist said it is going to fade…when the artist first started the shading i told him it was way too dark…but he told me not to worry that it will fade to the light grey that i kept asking for…any help?
If he said it would fade, it should. If it doesn’t, go back and make him give you your money back. If he won’t, ask to talk to the manager and explain the situation. I’m sure it will fade though!