How to Make a Tattoo Stencil

Video Transcript

"Welcome everybody my name is Lars Erik Robinson. I'm with a company called LarsEr Arts All Around Art-Tainment. Today I'm going to talk about how to draw an art stencil on; a tattoo stencil for your arm. The first thing you do is you come up with your; simple I have this line drawing here of a cream character they call it in movies. Some girl wants this tattooed on her or somebody wants it tattooed. I would take that and put like a tracing paper on top of it and outline it. I'm outlining it by taking a marker, a real juicy marker and then just outline it like this. Following all the lines, tape it together so that it stays together. If you have a hard time seeing it then you just take this again and I could just draw it myself here, but it gives you an idea of how you could exactly copy it. OK. After you're done doing the ink line work you could take this, shave where ever you're going to do it on your arm you have to clean that off, shave it off first and clean it. Then you lay this on a moist surface, press it on there and apply water to the back of it. Then the ink will transfer right over onto your arm. That's how you get the ink outline right onto your tattoo there. So, take tracing paper, take the line drawing that you have, take your tracing paper, lay it on top, tape it together, follow the lines with ink and then take that same image and make sure that you know that whatever side you're going to put down is going to be a mirror image almost. So, when you go lay it down you want to make that; that's what. You can even do a test of it first and then see how it looks, then lay it on. That's how you do a tattoo stencil. I hope you enjoyed that. I hope that gives you a good explanation of how to make a tattoo stencil."