How to transfer a drawing onto skin

A tattoo stencil is used to accurately transfer a design from paper to your skin. Making a tattoo stencil is easy to do at home but will take some practice to refine your accuracy. Creating your own stencil is a good idea if you are looking to test out designs before involving a tattoo artist. Click the pin to find out more about making your own tattoo stencils.

Tattoo transfer paper is essentially carbon copy paper for tattoos which leaves the design outline on your skin. The effect is similar to those temporary “fake” tattoos you used to apply as a child. This short guide explains how to use tattoo transfer paper, and the difference between thermal and hectograph/freehand transfer papers. Click the pin.

Tattoo artists today are able to take any piece of artwork a client desires, and ink it by using transfer paper. Artists who wish to showcase a personal piece of art as a tattoo can draw out the sketch, then take it to a local tattoo parlor artist.

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Unless you're confident enough to draw freehand, creating a tattoo on carbon paper is the best way to get a design from your head to someone's skin. Transferring the stencil requires shaving and cleaning the area and then applying the stencil.

DIY Tattoo Transfer Stencils

Tattoo artists transfer designs from drawing to skin in a process known as tracing. Here's exactly how they get it done every time.

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