Advanced Tattooing Techniques

Book excerpt: Advanced Tattooing Techniques: A Guide to Realism is Joshua Carlton's best selling how-to book originally written to go along with his live realism tattoo techniques seminar. This book covers all of Carlton's methods for achieving realistic tattoo effects.This book teaches:- How to build and use giant magnum needles.- How to make stencils that let you map out the process and make your work look truly photographic.- How to tune and adjust your machines to get the exact desired effect, including the "wet look".- Exact needle set-up to hand motion as Carlton completes realistic, step-by-step, portraiture.The book has ample Color and B&W photos throughout in an effort to help you understand, through pictures, the techniques explained and taught within the book. Also included in the back of the book are a few pages of Joshua Carlton's realistic flash.This book was recently reviewed by International Tattoo Magazine and called "a monumental work" by editor in chief Chris Pfouts and is the perfect tool to help take your realism techniques to the next level!