hi everybody welcome back to a video today for the first time i am going to try the art of
tattooing now i know in the past tattooing has definitely got kind of a bad rep it was only
decades ago that people thought that tattooing was for sailors and angry people but in actual
reality tattooing is one of the most interesting and unique art forms there is just like any other
art form it requires tons of practice time patience understanding of art there's a reason
they're called tattoo artists at this point i have tried every single medium that you can imagine
but i've never tried tattooing and i know what some of you guys are gonna ask next do i have
any tattoos and the answer is no look as much as i love the artistry behind tattoos i can't even
handle when i stub my toe okay let alone getting a tattoo for hours on end i'm not afraid to admit
i'm just too much of a baby all right it is what it is but i love the artistry involved in tattoos
every artist has their own style every tattoo has its meaning or lack thereof the artistry behind it
is just absolutely off the charts and also before we get into this video i feel like i have to do a
disclaimer in the words of philip defranco don't be stupid stupid as you're about to see i am going
to be tattooing on synthetic skin completely synthetic no harm involved this video is
absolutely not a tutorial on how to diy anything just like with any other art medium it should be
respected and taken seriously and with precaution in fact if you do the medium incorrectly it could
lead to a whole entire host of problems none of which are cute we're trying to keep it cute today
i would say that you're better off spending the money that you would to buy the machine
spending that money on an actual artist who has the equipment time experience and get yourself
a nice professionally done artwork that'll last you much longer probably and secondly before this
video begins i would love to give a huge shout out to my friend jackie aka nerdycrafter here on
youtube she recently came out with her own craft kit which she was kind enough to send me it's a
sculpting kit that comes with literally everything you could need i did a second channel unboxing of
it so i'll link that video and the link to the box itself down below and with that being said
let's start
all right so this is the what is this now as far as like the actual tattoo kit itself it comes with
literally every single thing that i'm going to need including the needles the machine the power
supply the inks it even comes with gloves and rubber bands and it's very high rated
coming in at four stars and as far as like the total reviews go it's over nine thousand
and you're probably wondering how much a complete tattoo set like this cost i was thinking it was
gonna easily run over three hundred six hundred a thousand dollars to make this video but no
i don't know if this is concerning or not but it was only fifty two dollars
and because it's so disturbingly cheap i have a feeling that this isn't made
at all for professionals i feel like a complete set like this one is made for people like myself
who just want to try it out on fake skin you know especially because when i was looking
to buy this kit i saw like you can buy the actual tattoo machines for literally up to 500.
so i feel that artists who do this for a living they definitely probably spend
more than 50 dollars and by the way that's another thing you're going to get whenever you get one
professionally done is you're gonna be paying for not just the talent not just the time but also
their equipment that they've probably invested literally thousands in so let's see what we got
wow i did not expect it
to be this much in fact there's so much i'm gonna have to like scooch my desk
back so you can see all the stuff that it comes with now it does come with two
separate machines one i'm assuming is for shading and the other one is for
single line work it also comes with the world's tiniest inks watch me use up all of it before
i even get into like the actual drawing portion of the video for some reason it also comes with
a variety of stickers instruction book fake skin which we will definitely get into later
okay let's try to put it together
oh my god i cannot figure this thing out it has been
18 minutes and i cannot figure out how to even turn it on I'm gonna need a break
so i am back i had my dinner i'm staying hydrated i took a little break and thanks
to youtube university i think i figured out the problem let's see if it works
as far as like the actual vibration goes you can actually adjust it so like it's
not going to be too wobbly on the hand i'm sure with more upscale tattoo machines the
vibration is much less and you have much more control but as far as my expectations go it's
not too bad with the vibrations and now for the best part of this whole entire video like
literally the main reason i made this video the fake skin dude this stuff is absolutely
gnarly it kind of feels like a rubbery latexy kind of thing it's also the exact same texture
on both sides and all around it's fun to play with this kind of looks like cheese or something
anyway let's try it out
all right so the first thing i'm going to try is a basic line
oh my god good thing this is like on a piece of creepy skin and not actual person this was a lot
harder than i anticipated i kind of actually bent the needle
i am absolutely sweating that is insanely difficult like crazy crazy difficult
my very first impression is that this machine is actually very heavy for just like one hand to be
like dragging you know and whenever i'm applying the medium down it's actually incredibly difficult
because i can't be too slow or else it'll poke a hole in my canvas and i can't be too fast with
it or else it'll create like a little stippling moment and we don't want that and obviously the
machine deposits ink by going up and down so if you're like myself who naturally just has like a
shaky hand add on top of that some crazy vibrations usually i try out the medium and get
it fairly quickly and then i move on to like the swatches and then the drawing and thing like that
but bruv this is insanely difficult like i can't even get a straight line down so yeah at this
point in time i don't feel comfortable enough with the medium to like go on to the next part of the
video so tonight i'm gonna spend the rest of the night just trying to like do basic shapes maybe
mess around with a stipple and basically try to never create something that looks like this again
so this is kind of awkward this is actually me from the future and at this point in time i've
already finished the drawing the tattoo under normal circumstances i would never have the
video completely out of order like it is but at this point in time what i thought was going to be
just like simple line work which you just saw me practicing the line i did somewhat get the hang of
the line work i just had to do a little tweaks to it but at this point time like i said i have four
days of experience working with the machine under my belt and i've never dealt with an
art medium that is so um hazardous i guess that in order for you to even understand what you're gonna
be looking at i have to like do a pretense for it and trust me there was a lot of things that went
wrong with the machine as you're about to see but before i get into the absolute mess that is the
50 dollar tattoo machine first we'll start this on a high note and we'll go over the things that i
really enjoyed about this whole entire process
i briefly mentioned this earlier but not only does
the machine come with one fine point tip it also comes with a shader point and this one is insanely
cool because unlike the one point tip this one has five unfortunately i didn't really get the chance
to use this one for reasons which you're about to see but i think under different circumstances this
would have been insanely useful and insanely cool to use i also enjoyed the fact that the
machine came with the world's literal tiny whoa tiniest inks in existence it's completely okay
that they're insanely small because this is just a starter kit you know to try out things and it came
with a pretty good color selection with pretty much every single color that i'm gonna need
and most importantly i'm obsessed with the names that they gave each color they made the name
sound incredibly hardcore and tough for example we have LIGHTNING YELLOW ICE BLUE IMMORTAL WHITE AND
IMMORTAL BLACK BLOOD RED you know i'm obsessed with the ridiculous names i feel like that's a
nice touch and even though the colors are really cool i decided not to go with them
because i can barely struggle through getting a semi-straight line let alone do a whole entire
picture portrait but they are very very cool though the last thing in this whole entire
experience that i'm absolutely obsessed with was the stencil transfer paper oh my gosh this
stuff was so easy to use so what you do with this paper is you either draw your own design
or you trace an image onto the transfer paper and once you get your image you
place it wherever you want on the canvas and from there you wet it a little bit and
just like that when you peel it off you have your image basically like transferred via ink
and that's it those are the only three things that actually
went right and from this point forward let's go over the bad
oh god okay i'm gonna need to like mentally prepare for this one and it's very rare that i get
this frustrated at artwork you know but oh my god so first thing we need to talk about is the canvas
itself even though it did come with a four star on amazon upon further inspection it has a lot
of low rated reviews it even seems that like very experienced tattoo artists who know what they're
doing even they gave it a very bad review the canvas itself just couldn't handle the vibrations
and it would get like all caught up in the needles and poke through the canvas and it didn't matter
because no matter how light-handed i was no matter how hard i squeezed it to tighten it up it just
ate through the canvas so that was insanely frustrating not being able to use the shader
hardly at all especially as you're about to see my drawing has a lot of just pure black areas that i
had to fill in with one single needle so it took a lot longer to make the drawing than it should have
and as if not being able to use the machine wasn't bad enough this canvas stains like crazy
so with the machine in order to get the ink into the canvas i found that you're gonna need a lot of
it and under normal circumstances you're able to wash away the excess ink and then continue on let
me tell you that just wasn't happening with this canvas every single time that i put a line in the
canvas and i went to wipe away the excess ink it stained the canvas so ultimately i spent a mass
majority of my time dipping the q-tip in acetone and just individually cleaning smudge spots from
the stains and it was so insanely frustrating because once i would clean one specific area it
would like push it to the next area and i'd have to clean that area and clean that area and it was
so insanely frustrating i used almost an entire 300 count pack of q-tips just trying to clean it
and still in a lot of the areas of the canvas it's just permanently stained and it looks very
muddy and i'm not able to clean it at all in fact i would go as far as saying that this
is probably the most frustrating thing i have ever worked with on my channel and everything
that i just told you that wasn't even the machine itself okay i made a whole entire separate list
of the machine and all the problems that came with it but this little machine
oh my gosh i would say about every 30 seconds it would just randomly shut off
so when i'd be working on a very important part like a very specific line instead of going all
the way and doing like one smooth motion it would randomly turn off halfway oh my god i'm getting
so angry it was so frustrating oh my god i need to calm down the next thing that kept happening
and i feel like this probably might be normal for tattoo machines the actual motor area itself kept
getting very very very hot so i would say about every 15 to 20 minutes i would have to completely
stop what i was doing and let the machine cool down for a little bit and because i had to take
so many breaks it just took an insanely long time to make the artwork and then the last thing which
this one's kind of funny but also not funny when i was doing the artwork the machine kept sparking
and mind you i'm blind i can't see anything i had to take off my glasses and i'm like this close to
like a sparking machine if i was doing it with just like pen and paper it probably would have
taken me honestly about 45 minutes but between the cleaning the shaking the sparks the heat
the patience the cooling down the broken needles the floppy skin it took me three
full days just to get the drawing done as you're about to see it's um not my best work
so anyway guys there you have it my very first tattoo i would absolutely love to try this medium
again except with much better equipment if you want to see more videos of me trying out art
stuff please subscribe um i'll link nerdy crafters craft box down below as well as a second channel
video where i unbox everything i hope you have a good day and i will see you guys next video bye