With the purchase of Guy Aitchison's Reinventing the Tattoo comes a serial number. As informative and visionary the book can be, the number enables access to an incredibly invaluable resource: The Hyperspace Studios Forum.
http://www.hyperspacestudios.com
Inside you'll find loads of information and candid tattoo talk. It's professionals sharing and those who are learning come to soak it up. Topics included projects, technical aspects, tattoo design, critiquing and tons more. Critiquing is honest - if you can cut the umbilical cord, you'll learn a lot.
When I first started visiting the forum, there were certain terms and items of reference I simply didn't understand. Half a year later, I'm just beginning to appreciate the depth of material and thought that has been archived.
I'll leave you with a small bit of Guy's welcome:
"It's perfectly understandable for a new artist to not want to be too forward, to show humility and all that... but this forum is not the place for being shy. No matter what your experience level, you have valid things to contribute here, even if all you have at this stage are questions"
Writer’s Dreamtools is a site compiled by writer/editor Larry Belling from over 25 years of research. He's posted an incredible historical database for free.
http://www.writersdreamtools.com
Any writer can immerse himself into the era to be able to write about whatever setting. And, any artist should be able to use the tool as well to pick up details otherwise missed.
That 1950's full sleeve? Elvis and a jukebox is obvious. But Writer's Dreamtools can show us some other interesting ideas that would go great in that sleeve: Mad magazine was introduced, men were wearing tweed and mohair coats, women were wearing 14 inch hemlines, Picasso was painting Sylvette, Tokien's The Fellowship of the Ring was released, and Hitchcock was presenting The Twilight Zone.
Better. Much better.
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