be a tattoo artist

I know a tattoo artist who is interested in apprenticing me. For now though I need to work on my art skills and get a reliable vehicle.

I have a sready flow of people that come to me for tattoos but am yet to secure an apprenticship. This goal of mine also ties in with my other goal of moving to America.

I honestly think I’d feel at home in the states, working in a tattoo studio doing what I love. Bring it on!

when you work your ass off. Unfortunately, I’ve been sitting around waiting for it to come to me. I just [well maybe not JUST] realized that I should start and do something for myself. I’ve been wanting to ink since I was like 11…I was on a road trip with my mom and we stopped at a gas station. There was a man with 2 full sleeves and I fell in ♥. Here I am, 11 years later…still WANTING to do it and not taking any steps. I decided to ask my fiancé for a machine for my birthday, which is in 18 days. Hopefully I can start from there. I know enough to skip the whole cleaning part of an apprenticeship and maybe cut off a year or two. I just wanna get it done. I’m willing to work…I know that that last statement says otherwise but I REALLY want this. Possibly more than anything else that I’ve ever wanted. Ugh. Go through with it people…Don’t wait till 11 years go by like I have…

well i used to be one….b4 the military, but i’ll be gettin’ out and i wanna open up my own shop…i dunno where tho?....?

yeah i only have on tattoo i got it when i was 17 and it was the coolest thing ever. i mean the fealing was so great. i also desgined it myself all of the tattoos i will get will be my own drawings. my uncle opened up at tattoo shop and he let me tattoo his arm he told me it looked really good so yeah i want to be a pro. tattoo artist when i get older. i am going to art school to get better at it but when it’s all over with i want to have full sleaves on both arms and legs and have some tats on my neck. it helps me deal with my emotions i express them through my artwork. from having a hard and rough childhood and all the way up and til now.

My mom’s girlfriend opened a tattoo shop with her old friend a while ago, and because I’m such a good artist, she let me draw some flare work to display in the shop. And since then I’ve wanted to become a tattoo artist. It’ll be another 3 years before I’m old enough to apprentice, but this is definately something I want to try.

Im only 17 but as soon as i turn 18 i already have a job lined up up to start doin tattoos…i started doin them when i was 16…its the greatest thing ever….thats my goal….but yea who ever really does wanna do this stick to it…u can make lots of money by doin sumthing that you truley love to do….or if your just doin it for the money or whatever…but i have to say stick to it…theres a tat thats on my back

i think this would be the coolest job for me, and yet here i am studying communications. i think if i was a tattoo artist i can maybe juggle my other hobbies and not leave them out, like painting, photography and drawing and many other hobbies. i hate when you tell someone that you want to do something for the rest of your life and they say you should leave it as a hobby, which is exactly what my parents said when i said i wanted to study art.

My own goal or a fool hearty childish wish, I’m not entirely sure. But it is my dream to be able to allow the expression of a person’s emotions through a very beautiful art form. I plan on taking an apprenticeship when I finish university. And hopefully work in a friend’s pub then so I have money to live on and money to buy supplies for my apprenticeship. I don’t know how I arrived at this goal, I think it was a combination of other people’s own desires as well as a rebellion on my part. But I’m at that age. While most people desire to acquire a tattoo in their lives I want to be able to give people that joy. Whether it’s a snot nosed brat living in the moment trying to preserve the joy of life or someone honoring a love that’s gone, tattoo’s are shrouded in emotional turmoil, and I think that there is no better experience than being able to convey those emotions successfully through art of any form. A tattoo is just another form of expression, and why shouldn’t a person have a quality job done for them? I like quality products and am very determined to succeed in this field if i am ever given a chance to try.

My older brother’s best friend for 10 years just opened his own shop entitled ‘Carnage’, and when I brought him my art and my goal, he offered me an apprenticeship :)