Comment Tatouer Des Mains Réalistes

This document will accompany you throughout the tutorial. You can download it or print it out whenever you want.
There, you can find:

• Course information and Coreh López biog.
• Summaries of each class.
• Related links and resources.
• Reference image and stencil.
• Space to take notes.
• Lesson review.

Tattooing a hand is not easy. If you have little experience tattooing Realism, we recommend you practice as much as possible in less complex areas.

In this first lesson, Coreh López will tell you everything you need to keep in mind to get the most out of this course.

Is it possible to make a realistic tattoo on the hand in one session? It depends on many factors. One of them is the reference image.

In this lesson, Coreh will teach you the minimum requirements that an image must meet to be tattooed on the hand.

Before starting to tattoo a hand, you should know how to answer these two questions: how many parts does the hand have? And, what considerations should you take into account to tattoo each one of them?

If you don't know the answers, Coreh will tell you everything about them in this lesson.

Before moving on to the tattooing process, Coreh shows you which inks, machines, and needles he has chosen to tattoo the piece for this course.
Remember that you should continuously adapt your materials to the type of skin of your client.

And if we talk about the skin of the hand, there are many aspects you must consider. In this lesson, Coreh will tell you about it in depth.

Coreh will show you how he has adapted the tattoo design to the chosen area and preferences of the client.

To create the stencil, you must take special care with the degree of detail of the tattoo. In this lesson, Coreh will tell you why.

You cannot tattoo a hand in the same way you would tattoo a forearm. If you do not have much experience tattooing Realism, you should burn something in your mind when you tattoo a hand: scratching is prohibited. In this tattoo session, you will learn:

• How to tattoo knuckles.
• Placement and inclination of the needle on thin skin.
• Appropriate and inappropriate techniques for tattooing a hand.
• How to create fine textures over shaded areas.
• Recommendations for tattooing joints or areas with bone.
• How to shade large areas.
• How to tattoo the back of the hand.
• How to work both on virgin skin and previously tattooed skin.
• Considerations for tattooing a doll.
• How to tattoo on freckles or moles.
• How to tattoo eyelashes.
• How to make fine lines and wrinkles.
• How to tattoo eyebrows to make them look natural.
• Recommendations for tattooing with white ink.

In this lesson, Coreh will tell you the two reasons why a tattoo can lose some tone after the healing process.

For the whites to be permanent, you must be very careful not to injure the skin excessively. Coreh will share his tricks so that the white ink does not lose its shine over time.

In this review session, you will learn:

• The trick to getting soft shadows.
• How a tattoo is reworked and the steps to follow.
• How to adapt your technique and materials in the review session.
• The best creams and moisturisers to heal tattoos.
• Reasons why a tattoo loses tone when it heals and how to avoid it.
• How to make whites rich and bright.

Why does a tattoo on a hand lose so many details? In this lesson, you will see how the portrait has completely healed after the review session.

Remember that the hand is very prone to infection. Take note of Coreh's advice to make the healing process of the tattoo turn out well.

Congratulations on making it this far!

To finish the course, Coreh will remind you of what you must keep in mind if you want the details you have tattooed on your hand to be preserved over time.