Practice Koi Fish Tatoo

As I haven't actually tattooed anything in weeks, I started a new tattoo on a practice skin on Sunday. I did the outline with a 5RL needle and started the shading with a 7FS needle. My hand was very shaky at first - but I used this to my advantage to do the ends of the fins and did the rest of the outline as my hand got more steady.

Unfortunately, these practice skins do not hold a lot of the colour in them and it even holds some colours more than others. Every time I tried to shade with the red, most of it came off again when I wiped it over. I had to experiment with the length of the needle to get it right, and finally got somewhere with it. Yellow on the other hand stayed without any problems. The black was much darker, but the more I wiped it, the less ink remained. I can't wait to get in more practice to actually try it on some skin!

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