Tattoo Program
| The art of tattooing has been around literally for thousands of years, with the first recorded instance of tattooing being that of a 5000 year old Bronze Age man whose frozen body was found in the 1990’s high up in the mountains between Italy and Austria. Over the millennia, the art of tattooing has served multiple purposes ranging from what was presumed to be therapeutic reasons in the beginning, to religious purposes, signs of authority, and most recently simply as fashion statements. As tattooing as an art became older, the machinery or tools used to create them as well as the surrounding technology it grew more and more advanced. In recent years, tattoo programs have sprung up which provide a tattoo artist a variety of different uses to help in the tattooing process. | |
| Whereas initially, a tattoo design needed to be drawn up and then drawn on the client’s body using a pen in order to get an idea of how it looks, now with the use of tattoo programs an artist can create a 3D rendition of the tattoo and superimpose it over a digital model for viewing purposes. Do you think Japanese Kanji symbols look cool? Well luckily for you there is a tattoo program out there for that as well. It has within its software a database of thousands upon thousands of different Kanji symbols along with their actual definitions. This means no more wondering about whether that cool Kanji you are looking at getting tattooed on you really means “warrior” or “egg drop soup”.
Along with databases full of popular Kanji and 3D rendition software, recently released tattoo programs allow you to do a plethora of other tasks as well. For instance, tattoo stencils can be chosen from the stencil database of a program or you can use software that allows you to create your own and then subsequently have it printed out to be used on you. The ability to sketch a design using a computer drastically cuts down the amount of prep time usually needed for tattoo design. When it comes to tattoos, some people prefer art and designs whereas others prefer different fonts and scripts. Tattoo programs can assist you with this as well since they generally have databases full of thousands of different fonts created over the years. This allows a tattoo artist to greatly broaden the amount of designs they can tattoo since they no longer have to free hand a specific font and can instead simply have you pick your font and what you want it to say, print out a stencil, apply it, and trace over it. Recently, different languages have been added as well so that a tattoo artist can use a tattoo program to create a tattoo in difficult languages such as Arabic, Sanskrit, as well as a multitude of other beautiful yet hard to learn languages. All in all, tattoo programs have become an invaluable asset to tattoo artists everywhere as tattoo programs allow the artist to broaden their abilities, create more enticing and creative work as well as cut down the time they take to manufacture. Tattoo programs range from free to somewhat expensive depending upon how much you want them to do but it is definitely an investment that is worth it and will pay off in the long run. |
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i was incarcerated for over 10years & learned how to tattoo in there. i have drawing experience, but not enough. i am very interested & serious in learning to be one of the best tattoo artists. i would like to know a specific list of becoming a tattoo artist….