Bottom Up or Top Down?

[BattleRoyal]

I have read some conflicting info on the topic of starting your outlining.

Some sources say start from the TOP DOWN and others say start from the BOTTOM UP.

I would think starting from the BOTTOM UP would be the best method as you'd not be erasing your stencil if you worked from the TOP DOWN.

Whats everyone's thoughts on this subject?

???

[tadt]

im right handed so i start top right and work down, that way i dont rub out the stencil.

[BattleRoyal]

Well if you start top right and go down isn't the heel of your hand rubbing ON the stencil then?

[FORGIVEN]

i work from the bottom ( right side) up .

[Papa Gee]

Being a lefty who curls his hand around the top of my work. I start my outline at the upper left corner and work to the right and down. Yes you drag your hand through the ink but it's through what you've already outlined. It contains the mess to where you've been. Not where you're going.

[Choppers4Life]

If your right handed you start from the bottom right and work up. If your left handed you start from the bottom left and work up. That way as your wiping in a downward motion you are not wiping your stencil away as your working.

[Nekrotek]

bottom right for me.

[JosephBigBear]

Papa Gee I have a left handed apprentice can you hook me up with some tips for him somtimes its hard to teach him and the same with me because he is teaching me how to airbrush. Also who makes a good left handed tattoo machine.

[Papa Gee]

I wish I could find a good lefthander. I've looked at two siders but havent purchased one yet.

The thing about your left handed apprentice is that sometimes south paws do things exactly backwards to achieve the same results.

[thew750]

I do my outline right handed and go from the bottom right up, I shade left handed and work from top left down.

Go figure.

[Nekrotek]

I wish I could find a good lefthander. I've looked at two siders but havent purchased one yet.

The thing about your left handed apprentice is that sometimes south paws do things exactly backwards to achieve the same results.


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[JosephBigBear]

tHANKS Papa Gee

[Sarcastic_Bastar]

build your own bolt together lefty
you must have an idea how to do that?

try a rotary ok for cack handed people

[BigDaddyInks]

build your own bolt together lefty
you must have an idea how to do that?

try a rotary ok for cack handed people

try a new forum...ok for cack in the mouth people like you!!!!! :twisted:

[JosephBigBear]

[odisius]

i start different depending on the tat if theres a area of high detail sometimes ill start there and save the easy stuff for last but i generaly look at the stencil for a minute and figure out a plan that makes it easier and the quickest.

[sniper]

ass up, face down!

but seriously start on the bottom from whatever side your hand with the machine is in and work up. using wash lines first usually eliminates the stencil rub-away blunder though...

[juan]

being right handed i start from bottom right and work my way up

if i was left handed i imagin i would start from bottom left and work up

i guess being right handed i could start from top right and work down but the chance of rubbing the stincil of is greater and then again there is also gravity to deal with everything runs down over the stincil making a mess

[Curby]

I'm left handed and start from the bottom left and work up.

I also use a Mickey Sharpz Hybrid Machine...

[tat2dmthrfckr]

I am a lefty and where I start all depends on the pattern and the size, but mostly on the bottom left. I think dermagraphics still sells the bear machine, i think it is $150.00 you can get it right or left, It might be the V-machine, but i know dermagraphics used to sell the left machines. I use a spaulding puma right and a time machine brass invader right, and have no problems with it. If it is the capacitor in the face you are worried about, take and solder longer leads on it, and hide it behind the frame.