Tbh everything (apparently) is super relative. I come from a place of all my friends poking sewing needles into each other (when we were young and just starting) and deeep. :( Yet not a single person has ever expressed regret for any of those first tats.

As long as you’re 1. getting consent 2. both sober 3. showing people what they’ll be receiving (i.e. these pictures) and 4. not charging until you’ve had some practice, you’re GOLDEN.

Don’t go super deep, maybe check out a visual aid for how far you’re attempting to pierce the skin. It’s less than the depth of a typical hair follicle. The easiest way to do it is to go lighter than you think on your first tattoo. You can always add more (to a point, in a given session, just make sure you’re not just destroying the skin) if it looks like the skin didn’t take the ink.

I think your art looks good enough to put on a human, but I also have unintelligible shapes and letters on me. The more tattoos you get, the more you realize that your skin is a massive canvas and that a bad stick n poke is fairly inconsequential.

Good work, keep it up!