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david220
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Posted - 09/05/2006 :  01:10:47  Show Profile  Visit david220's Homepage  Reply with Quote
A very common question, not an easy one to answer. From time to time some tattoo artists will take on an apprentice, this can last for 2 to 3 years. You would be expected to purchase your own equipment and sterilising units. The cost of this would be in the region of £4,000 to £5,000. No wages would be paid during this period, you will be working with a professional tattoo artist for 5 or 6 days a week. You will be taught the necessary skills gradually and will begin to put on your own tattoos after about 6 months. It takes around 5 years for a tattoo artists to become fully competent, and able to carry out the various styles of tattooing available today. There are no correspondence courses on tattooing that we know off, if there were we would not recommend them, as tattooing must be taught with "Hands on" experience, tattooing real people on living skin. It is illegal to tattoo without being registered with the local Environment Health Department, this comes under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions)Act 1982, Chapter 24. If you do not comply, equipment can be confiscated, you are liable to a massive fine (on a daily basis) until you prove you have stopped tattooing. Sterilising equipment must be checked and serviced regularly, all clinical waste must be disposed through a licence waste disposal service e.g. Rentokil Medical waste collection service.

Source - http://www.tattoo.co.uk/guide.htm


USEFUL LINKS

http://www.learndirect-advice.co.uk

Learn direct has general information on how to become a tattoo artist and links to courses with a Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT)


http://www.reddragontattoos.co.uk

One of the few places where you can train to become a tattoo artist - The Professional Tattoo Academy is the UK's first full-time organisation dedicated to teaching the correct procedures and practices of the professional tattoo artist.


http://www.tattootraining.co.uk

The Body Arts College (BAC) are a registered VTCT assessment centre offering the only approved International body piercing/tattooing qualification. We have enrolled students from many parts of the UK and deal with enquiries from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Channel Islands as well as England.

Try searching in google for training in your area...

dave banfield
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/18/2006 :  12:23:28  Show Profile  Visit dave banfield's Homepage  Reply with Quote
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bullet4dan
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/18/2006 :  14:54:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by logan

I no you mean well but i have had first hand experiance of these so called tattoo schools and i was not impressed as far as im concerned a budding tattooist should do an apprentiship at a tattoo studio. you cant learn to tattoo on a two week or even a two month course.
Im a bit fed up of all these so called tattoo acadamys or schools.

Logan

a mistake is only serious if its repeated


yeah i admit they do sound quite apealing, and and they sound like good quick soloution to getting urself started, but from what i heard there not all that, i myself am really interted in becomeing a tattooist,

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adamo
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Posted - 03/17/2007 :  23:43:38  Show Profile  Visit adamo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
you cannot learn to tattoo in a day, a week, 3 weeks, or a lifetime. the filthy parasites offering courses are sucking money from the ignorance & naievety of tattoo wannabes. it ain't glamourous, it's hard work every day.
A good tattooist will take on an apprentice based on a meeting/feeling they get from the wannabe & their portfolio, if the tattooist wants money, it's already the wrong decision.
I've seen tattoo 'artists' offering courses with 30 years experience, if you tattoo for 30 years & you are still ****, then you should not be spunking money off gullible people for information you don't have.
& stop 'tattooing'.
If it's meant to happen, you will be a tattoo artist & you will work in a good studio, anyone can pick up a starter kit & make a mark on their mate's skin. yes it's a tattoo, & it's also a future cover-up nightmare for a pro.
if you can't see the difference between a arse & art put down your 'guns'.
tattoo courses are full of rubbish, sold by trash.
if you want proof, ask to see their work. it will be ****.
no good artist will become production line whore.
simple.
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MissG
Big Don!!!!!!

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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  20:47:41  Show Profile  Visit MissG's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I think that people wanting to become a tattooist gota have funding behind them ... it must be sooo hard tryin to survive if they have families/houses to pay for.

I cant imagine learning/working for nothing, and for soo many years, that in itself should put people off doing it.

*Miss G*

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askinmechanic
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Posted - 03/19/2007 :  20:53:14  Show Profile  Visit askinmechanic's Homepage  Reply with Quote
and the support of your family, without my wife i would have found it harder than i already did

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Rogue
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Posted - 03/20/2007 :  10:04:16  Show Profile  Click to see Rogue's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Aww bless dats sooo sweet....was the same 4 Logan too.

There are no stupid questions....just stupid people.

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yeldarb
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Posted - 03/20/2007 :  14:29:41  Show Profile  Visit yeldarb's Homepage  Reply with Quote
And here. Try working twice the hours so the wife can stop work and tattoo all day with little reward apart from the future.

Saying that this year I have had 4 days away from the studio. Even on my holiday I went in to work.

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askinmechanic
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Posted - 03/20/2007 :  18:34:44  Show Profile  Visit askinmechanic's Homepage  Reply with Quote
amazing how much work you have to do to get going, and yet how many people come on here who want to be tattooists think its all glamerous tattooing all day after all they can draw and thats all that is needed isnt it? and im not having a go at them its the nievity that i find funny sometimes, who has heard " wish i didnt start till 10 and finished at 6 "

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yeldarb
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Posted - 03/20/2007 :  18:55:37  Show Profile  Visit yeldarb's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Once or twice.

We do 12 noon till 8PM five days and 10 till 5pm for the sixth. Doesn't every one do six day weeks (including bank holidays)

Although we don't start till mid day we leave the house at 7.30AM to tend to our 2 horses, go back home for lunch at 11AM and then go to work for 12. A long day not forgetting horses don't do lie ins on a Sunday so no change in time leaving home.

Wouldn't change it for anything. Love it.

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jacquie hickman
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Posted - 03/20/2007 :  19:49:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yep ,me too . Out the house at 7 am and back at the very earliest at 7pm.
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askinmechanic
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Posted - 03/20/2007 :  21:17:32  Show Profile  Visit askinmechanic's Homepage  Reply with Quote
what how can that be? i thought we turn up at the shop customers queueing up outside to a autoclave that has already done its job a floor that is already moped aworkspace that has been organised and inks checked materials ordered bills paid etc etc and stencils done and then at the end of our 6 hour day were we made a cool £1000 easy everything cleans and readies itself for our next day of easy cash and relaxing work

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