How to Get a Tattoo: Adding Light Colors

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name is Shotsie Garman. I'm here as a tattoo artists, a professional tattoo artists for Expert Village. So what were doing now is- what we have here is a higher value color and I'm creating the sense that we have a sunset happening in the center of this piece and so now I need to radiate the color out through the rest of it. But in the process of tattooing there is a certain amount of redness of the skin and minor bleeding as you can see and the tattoo pigments really look much darker overall than they will in the final stage. In the final stage -excuse me- the yellow which appears kind of orange now will be a very bright yellow. Each color will begin to separate a little bit more clearly one from the other. So now you see me putting in yellow and it immediately give the appearance of orange. That's because of the surface bleeding and the fact that the skin underneath is quite red and irritated. So the yellow looks orange but in its final state it will be a very very bright yellow."