Why Study to Become Professional Tattoo Artists, Explained by Milano Tattoo School and Tiziano (no, not the singer)
The skin is the largest organ of the human body. The skin is our protective covering; it encloses us, it is the layer that separates what we commonly call “self” from the world, and at the same time, it is the instrument that connects us most to it, thanks to our primary sense, the one most suited to exploring the world and its pleasures: touch.
“Tattoo” and “touch” are related not only etymologically but also epidermally. Becoming a tattoo artist means, first and foremost, having respect for the epidermis in all its layers, at every angle, in any pigmentation, at every age, need, aspiration, and mucous membrane. To do this, it’s not enough to have approximate knowledge, questionable certified tools, and amateur practices. Sorry, passion alone isn’t enough either.
A Training Program to Become Professional Tattoo Artists
Today, it’s unthinkable to aspire to become a professional tattoo artist without having followed a specific training program, preferably taught by experienced, not improvised, tattoo artists. The reasons are numerous and even obvious; suffice it to mention the introduction of strict regulations mandated by law and the increasingly widespread information about problems related to tattoos. Information that too often, unfortunately, takes on alarmist tones, partly due to the poor work done by tattoo shopkeepers, who on one hand damage the image of our profession, and on the other represent a further incentive to update our tools, advance our techniques, and improve our practices.
You cannot have a beautiful tattoo on skin whose potential and fragility are ignored, just as it is highly improbable to handle tools whose use, maintenance, and cleaning are not thoroughly understood without incurring – sooner or later – some risk. Not to mention that having full awareness of the main parental-hematically transmitted infections and diseases, and the related precautions and immune prophylaxis, is a guarantee that protects the tattoo artist, not just the client. Reducing risks, facing every inconvenience during the work, knowing the practice of tattooing in every detail – these are the necessary premises to refine one’s art and achieve a definitive and recognizable style.
The Skills of a Professional Tattoo Artist
In the hands of a professional tattoo artist, prevention, safety, technique, and art coincide in every single gesture. This is also why Milano Tattoo School’s training offerings are not limited to courses for obtaining the necessary certifications to practice the profession without technical skills and artistic abilities, or to technical seminars that are ends in themselves and lack medical, health, psychological, etc., notions. The success of a tattoo worthy of the name is a combination of many factors, some obvious, like the steadiness of the hand, the quality of the colors, and the maintenance of the equipment; others are less immediate or even inaccessible without the mediation of an expert.
If we are still ecstatic today before a Madonna by Titian, it is because, even before achieving the exact nuance of the red priming that made him famous, he knew how to choose the most suitable tools for the purpose each time, to know every inch of the canvas he would then paint in detail, and to study the skin of the woman who posed for him.
And from the folds of certain smiles that the painter from Pieve di Cadore made immortal, something tells us that his studies were quite thorough, but that’s another story. Because, let’s face it, studying can be a lot of fun.
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