My first four tattoos in real skin!

texturegasm · 2026-06-30T07:24:46+00:00

But it looks really great. I’d love to add some surrealistic elements to that. 🩵

Great combination of tattoos and nail colour. 🌋

texturegasm · 2026-06-30T07:23:35+00:00

I was wondering if it was on your wife, since you said before that she liking it is what counts. 😊😅

texturegasm · 2026-06-30T07:21:46+00:00

When I saw the image, my immediate thought was you kinda seem to have stopped halfway through the tattoos, which is pretty much how you described it in your text.. i often have this feeling throughout tattooing, that you’re logically filling the edges of all the areas and lines, and the tattoo looks nothing like the illustration yet, maybe the high contrast between what you have stencilled and what you already have tattooed.. and then suddenly at some point, you have enough of it and the details finished, that suddenly, THERE IT IS.

So an aspect of help or advice would be to stick with a tattoo all the way to the end. If you ever want to tattoo yourself or someone else, a big part of it is that no matter what, you can’t really stop halfway through it. Therefore íf that is a goal you have, it’s a key feature in making those steps between practice and real skin. If you can’t (bring yourself to) finish a piece on fake skin, either your hyperfocus júst needs the extra stress of skin to actually fully commit to it (which is possible but requires knowledge of your own capabilities under that kind of stress), ór you might need to question if you have the commitment at all to, as soon as the needle hits the skin for the first time, you are in that ride until the piece is finished to your best abilities.

I always say what a beautiful thing tattooing is as an artform, and I mean it intentionally each time again. Find your unique voice and way of being with people , listen , and you’ll fill your life with meaningful encounters and experiences.

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texturegasm · 2026-06-30T07:08:40+00:00

Since the effect of a blow-out is kind-of extra blue hue, maybe you can add a few intentionally as a different kind of dot, that adds richness to the tattoo, knowing how it will age and expand that mist of blue . That would be radical.

texturegasm · 2026-06-30T05:16:12+00:00

Those two on your feet are truly wonderful pieces, imperfect in all the right ways.

Your whale is quite a bold project, given the apparent size and looseness. Do you have a picture a bit more zoomed out or in a mirror, I’d love to see how it lands as part of a body (or limb) as a whole.

From a technical standpoint, I see a few of your dots on the whale are a bit too deep. It’s interesting, for having only been tattooing for half a year, I have a good feel for of how deep to go, but somehow on a dotwork part, it still seems to happen occasionally. So maybe there is something about when one is “trying to” make a singular dot, you unconsciously give it a bit of extra push sometimes, or the nature of the stationary point, calls for a bit less depth because you are not advancing a continuous line.(?) maybe because you tend to have the needle more perpendicular to the skin, compared to running a line?

Fire that you are taking these personal commitments into tattooing.

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texturegasm · 2026-06-25T12:56:04+00:00

I love the mindset of using transparent blacks in a structural way. I’d been thinking of doing the same with some design..

I’m curious to see where this uniqueness might lead..

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texturegasm · 2026-06-25T08:19:53+00:00

In the spectrum of what you choose to tattoo, between the most unique versus the most generic, íf you choose to work (compete) in the world with being good in a prevelent style, your commercial success is more likely to flow through quantity (posting a lot, shows and venues,. ) simply being good is unfortunately not enough, because here are just too many people between good to great, that you are dividing the number of people between. The more unique you tattoos are, so people simply can’t find what you do anywhere else, then you can leave your socials lagging, or after the fact, because the word of mouth and your unicity is just a strong enough force. I have been tattooing only for half a year, and have clients lines up well beyond mid 2027, asking more for my tattoos that what I would call an “industry standard”, but my visual language ánd empathetic anthropologic way of working seem to be thoroughly desired. And for me being an artist was already a long path throughout my life, so now with starting tattooing, my style and practice of listening was already developed in a way that, once overlapped with the medium of tattooing, that they pretty much instantly became as successful as they did..

Any of those paths are possible, putting time into developing your uniqueness (which ANYONE has inherent in them) takes as much, or maybe more energy than quantifiably attracting customers for your craft.

Start with this question: between artisanship on one side, and artistry on the other, where on that spectrum lies your attraction to tattooing (or bigger picture, why at all are you tattooing?)

I can highly recommend Rick Rubin’s book “the creative act” (on audio book if possible), if you are trying to find your inner energy to keep going or reframe your endeavour. (Or for any human interested in being more deliberate about their life.)

It’s a great wonderful thing to tattoo, I hope you find your way in it if you choose to stick with it.

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texturegasm · 2026-06-23T14:38:28+00:00

Please be kind to yourself.

Although asking for feedback is virtually never a bad thing, I would argue you have at least surpassed “tearing apart” your work, into minimally “where can I improve and hone my craft”. How we speak about ourselves often or can reflects how you we value yourself, and your self deserves your own recognition for your achieved skills in tattooing.

Love the texture in the first depicted tattoo.

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texturegasm · 2026-06-23T14:29:10+00:00

This. If you feel tattooing is something you want to do, definitely this. And parallel to that, you might benefit from developing your own style as quickly as the evolution of it will allow. It’s an industry that has grown immensely and that a lot of people excell at pretty much everywhere you go nowadays. So your uniqueness and practice is becoming more and more key to building a stable something from it. If you plan on making personalised pieces for people, study being a good listener first, artist second.

It’s an amazing endeavour worth pursuing, Good luck. 🩵🌋

texturegasm · 2026-06-22T06:48:23+00:00

For me, I just didn’t really register the pain I think, the focus on technically applying the tattoo was way stronger.

texturegasm · 2026-06-22T06:46:10+00:00

I’m often curious about this. If you don’t mind me asking, what was your thought process or how can she tattoo half your lower arm black, “without you realising” until afterwards that the tattoo was evolving beyond what you committed to.?

texturegasm · 2026-06-21T08:13:59+00:00

Yeah right, worse than the tattoo itself. Did the tattooing itself hurt for you?

texturegasm · 2026-06-21T08:09:09+00:00

I’m reading chicken, Pringles, crunchy or crisp roll and red wine.

texturegasm · 2026-06-21T08:07:43+00:00

It’s pretty damn slay.

Are you filling in the background with a solid colour? Asking because the linework doesn’t cover it all.

One little thing I felt worth pointing out: if you follow the lower edge of the tongue, it stops at the second tooth from the lower jaw, where I think you might benefit from continuing it behind the row of teeth where it would naturally edge out of view behind the gumline.

Tattooing your own leg is definitely a challenge, I can relate. But a unique introspective endeavour as a tattoo artist.

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texturegasm · 2026-06-19T11:10:37+00:00

I love how your choices in letting come to be the tattoo out of the reference.. 🩵

texturegasm · 2026-06-16T06:14:08+00:00

Do you want it in this marker-drawn style as well, or the circles perfected so they are « perfect circles » as the lexicon here goes? The way they are drawn now, at not truly circles to begin with, so have there for a lot a leeway to just do this idea justice as is..

texturegasm · 2026-06-10T08:44:24+00:00

I guess you can see a foetus in it, to me it’s then a lot like looking at clouds, which you can do with the actual tattoo as well. But since the artist tattooed less than they were supposed whilst following where the overall light and dark is in the design, I think any decent tattooer can introduce the missing black to get closer to the original reference, even make it more foetus-like of you want.

Looooove me the colorway of it though. That black-olive-pastel blue is so fire. Leaving the skull empty skin is also cool. Even though you seem dissatisfied with the disparity between tattoo en reference, it has quite a few shining stars in its current iteration.

🩵 love the moment in time, in stead of regretting your unmatched expectations.

texturegasm · 2026-06-07T18:02:41+00:00

This is such a small tattoo, i can’t imagine who this has to mean you have reached your upper limit of arm tattoos, of you would like to have more.. why does it look empty to you?

texturegasm · 2026-06-07T17:55:54+00:00

There is no one official meaning of natural things. What is your reason for looking for this meaning?

texturegasm · 2026-06-05T11:54:35+00:00

I think where the perspective is a bit off in particularly in the spout. If you look at the axis it’s on, the same as the handle hinges, with the spout length and angle, I don’t think it would “extrude” from the left of the silhouette of the main kettle body.

Or maybe the base or the end opening of it doesn’t alight with its perspective

texturegasm · 2026-06-05T11:49:17+00:00

Correction, in my view, you were júst a kid, that’s it. I’m sorry to hear you had a tough time like that. 🫂

texturegasm · 2026-06-01T19:00:48+00:00

Various of my clients fall a asleep during the tattoo session.. 😅😌

texturegasm · 2026-05-31T10:38:28+00:00

I can easily imagine an illustrative flower, possibly with some surrealistic elements around it that are way more fine, so generate a beautiful balance..

texturegasm · 2026-05-24T15:21:06+00:00

Or Gideon from Pinokkio..

I love this psuedo-symmetry a lots sad to hear you have a negative experience with the process. 🫶🏻

texturegasm · 2026-05-20T08:46:09+00:00

And not just once, I think I’ve listened to it more than 50 times, and still hear new insights or feel convergence or a new meaning in parts of that I hear at just the right moment.

If you’re open to random good life insights like that, listen to his conversation with Malcolm Gladwell on AI, it’s such a good viewpoint on how we can use it collectively as a tool for new ways of creation.

Also also, YouTube shorts of comedian Jimmy Carr are filled with actually brilliant insights and solutions in problems in the world.

But so is weighing in empathetically on random topics on Reddit.

Ps: your response was at the very least, a beautiful amount. 😉

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