Bloodline ?

[BattleRoyal]

Whats a 'bloodline?'
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[TickTatToe]

It's when you make a line with no ink in the needle. Useful to get the stencil on the skin if you don't need/want a black outline ie for shade work.

[gremlin]

I haven't been brave enough to try it yet, but from what I understand its outlining without ink so the tattoo doesnt have the black "coloring book" outline. am I correct? Thats how it was explained to me anywho, I may be wrong though

[Essex Boy]

what tictactoe said
also it might take some searching but there is a thread on here about bloodlines which is quite informative

[Capt. Calzone]

pretty much right on.. bloodlining is used when you don't want a defined outline. you can also grey line for a subtle outline as well. I've seem some artists do it dry while others use distilled water instead of ink.

[thew750]

Bloodlining is very useful. I Bloodline a lot od B&G work. as well as interior shade points on color pieces to show exactly where I want transition. It's simply outlining without ink. I've used ir=t for tribal as well when using a color other than black for outline work. I'll bloodline it, fill it black, then outline it in color. The pourpose is so you don't have the over filled blac k outline as well as the fatter colou outline. since you have to go from dark to light. this alieviates the enlarged origional "black" outline.

I hope you understand what I mean.

[Papa Gee]

Nice for smoke effects as well. Or mist. Just bloodline the portion of the stencil you dont want a solid black outline and shade away from it.

[tat2dmthrfckr]

I like to bloodline with a #16 of one drop black filled up with distilled water, and go pretty quick as to not get a lot ink in there. Later on.

[Brad]

Like Papa said it's nice for soft smoke ,backround effects etc,It also is usefull when doing a big tat in one sitting & cant help but distorting the stencil by wipeing & stuff,this way you will still have your stencil when the hectograph ink is gone but the tat must be done in one sitting if not then you should use a grey line wich is almost the same but you take your black ink & heavily dilute it with distiled watter,This way when you do a big tattoo that takes several sittings youll never be able to reline your sencil back up exact even with an acatet stencil,so you use a grey line, but it is so faint that once you finish the work you will not see the grey line any more.The only other way to get the stencil perfect when doing a huge tat in sittings is to hand draw it on wich is still hard to get it exact & takes alot of time.This is all stuff that I picked up while working as a pircer for in a few shops for afew years.
Brad C
N.Y.C.

[voodoo]

good trick! :wink: