help on this please

[whitetop]

ok

ive got a tattoo setup just small and going to use practice skin for awhile to get it all right but i kinda stopped due to being blocked in on a problem i cannot/could never get passed and thats putting a full drawing into line sketching ive had help from cyber/robert on my facebook but still cannot do it i was told gimp was good but cannot get what i wanted.

from this


to this


i got lots of designs but 90% don't have liners just full stuff so anyone know how to do this??



p.s:this is for practice only and will never ever be used on a body untill i get my licence.

[FOOKz™]

So you just want to turn the colored images into lines only?

Yeah Gimp can do that.

* i'll post a vid on how to do it in a sec.

[whitetop]

thx fookz i tryed gimp but it never came out right

[FOOKz™]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKGB89I1OfA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixEe76tQ89w

[whitetop]

thx fookz will give it a shot once i am more awake

[1TONpete]

I use photo shop. I run the image through black and white adjustment . Just slide the color sliders till you get rid of the colors . Then make a contrast adjustment to get clean lines. I use CS5 but its the same with all CS versions just about.

[whitetop]

thx fookz tryed it and works but does not work on multi shaded colors think ill have to install ps5

[hyper999]

thx fookz tryed it and works but does not work on multi shaded colors think ill have to install ps5

make it black and white first?

to make stencils i used to make the images greyscale and then do some threshold thing...

[spurgurgle]

i word of advise about tattooing... (my best friend of 25 years is a tattooist.... if you cant draw it free hand with a pencil and paper you WONT be able to tattoo it even on fake skin...

pen and paper is easy.... where as tattoo gun and skin is tricky the tattoo gun is heavy and vibrates skin is soft and stretchy..... see what im saying....

i would personally if i was you..... just practise drawing you own designs out first ..... get better at standard art before u even pick up ur gun.... and then before using the gun learn about it ie. how to set it up how to adjust it, what type of needle's are best for what type of line or shading.....

my mate who is a tattoist has always bin top of the class at art in school.... and has nearly always wanted to be a tattooist... but he didnt jump straight in he spent years practising drawing and shadding with pen and pad..... then finally about 2 year ago he got his first tattoo gun and went at it...

and now after only 2 years tattooing experiance he's kicking out work like this





its all about practice and leanring the technipue before u even touch a gun.....
i was the first person he tattoo'd he did a cover up on me and for his first person (other then himself) he did a amazing job
it's still not finshed he's got some on my chest to do yet.... and its bin about 8 sessions of cover up work so far maybe 15-20 hours... he was very slow when he first started but now after 2 years has sped up a bit.. and not lost any quality in his work....

[1TONpete]

I agree with everything said. I am a tattoo artist also. I was a portrait artist and airbrush artist way before tattooing. I see a lot of "guy's with tattoo guns" and not a lot of tattoo artists.

[1TONpete]

whitetop PM with any questions or problems with photoshop.

[whitetop]

hi guys im ok with drawing and all been doing it for 15year close to 16 in may its just i dont want to draw the lining of the picture just want to print it out without all the full detail/color


3 brothers in tattooing 4 uncles tattooing+making own designs so its really nothing new to me on the tattooing just the digital stuff like what i want ive done a few some ones on practice skin from hand drawing the using the gun to do the rest its just like all tattooists you don't want to draw big stuff by hand on someone they print the lining out and this is were im stuck with not being able to get the lining from a full detail picture


and i thank you all for trying to help me