hey guys Johnny Gault coming at you from Augusta Georgia gonna be showing you guys actually a pretty cool video here today I'm unloading all my secrets and kind of teaching everybody who's pretty new to the industry or new to the community one of the reasons is because this [ __ ] named guy of the New Jersey he's running the tattoo schools thought it would be cool if he stole all my techniques out of my videos and charged apprentices almost twelve thousand dollars for an eight-week program to learn what I give away for free so I'm taking out all the stops and I'm helping love the newer people so you guys can help get a better understanding without having to have your grandparents or your parents and their life savings and just to help all you guys out upfront because I don't make any money off of it and I want people to genuinely stay interested in the field while gaining respect the right way with that being said onto the video now this looks like a pretty crappy drawing off right here but that's how they all start out this is how the old-school guys do stencils a lot of these new dudes are trying to teach like yeah yeah you use your iPad pro but for those of those of us who aren't hipsters or don't wear big glasses suspenders or have big beards this is how you do it properly this is the old-school way that I learned from Todd and I still do this now now when you got something like this you do your rough sketch and you do it up with like a color pencil setup I use like light blue and red because when you put them on a light box and you go to your final outline it shows more prominent but the differentiation and the shading that's intended when you actually lay the page over it now you go through you do your light sketching like this with you know red and blue colored pencil and then you make sure you have a large assortment of different size tip markers ready these different points right here allow me to put in a different line weight so that when it translate to the stencil I can remember where I want the thin lines where I want the thick lines and it just kind of serves as a roadmap so I forget anything all right it's kind of just like double-checking your script to make sure you didn't misspell a word now with that being said once you have your sketch done you take another piece of paper and set it over and you activate your lightbox once you've done that it will show correctly and translate the proper way the reason you do your sketch like this and you do your final set over it so that when you run through the stencil you have nice clean crisp set lines you know exactly where you're going with it so right here you set our paper over it we go through with our pencil or our different tip pens and we have our thinner lines or thicker lines but we have our differentiation set exactly how we want it now this upper sheet of paper is you know it's pretty important the reason I like to have like a photo scanner or a photocopier on-site is because I like to take my final page like this I scan it and I save all of my documents are saved my entire stencil portfolio and I keep it separate I have a hard copy and I have a memory value the reason that's important is because some of these guys like to take their dirty stencils and stick them up in their station which i think is [ __ ] disgusting but you know th is own if you want to spread Hep C or just have like a giant you know blood-borne pathogen station that's cool I guess but I take these hang em frame them or use them as an example for a future client in case they want something relative I do have some flowers that I do more than once I have custom flash designs that I only do one time as a custom tease but you know that being said you don't really want to go too crazy with repeating the same [ __ ] otherwise you're going to get burnt out now after you've done your final sheet and you've got this guy off to the side you have it saved you take this particular sheet right here to your stencil machine and you're under stencils off the reason you want to do the thick lines to the thin lines because it helps show you a lot of where you need to put your line debt that's what you want to actually have so that when you're done with it or when you're done with your setup your end game stencils come out looking very very prominent this is actually the back side it's the front side see this here nice easy stencil and you can see the line weight variation so that when I use a my threes or my fives it's going to be a lot different from my 12 hollow points when I go through and do the real thick stuff and you know you can do all kinds of different one and off that one stencil to the point where after you have all these other crazy ones done you can really upgrade to what you intended the original stencil for something like this I know it's something really simple and really basic but for those people who are having a hard time with learning this is actually a really important video on how to get your stencil started this will actually help quite a bit of people out because this is what they need so what we're actually gonna do in a later video is I'm going to apply these stencils and I'm going to show you guys the basic on how to get your stencils to work properly how to use things like electrum or stencil stuff so that it actually sticks the skin and you get the best out of your setup so once again thanks for watching guys things to loves want to throw a quick video out there to help you guys out if we need some assistance these are the tattoos that we're going to be doing for the upcoming videos I'm gonna teach the basics for American traditional so I'm here to zoomy you know stuff like that to help you guys out show you guys how do line variation show you guys to the pepper shade had a whip shade how to create effects and it's gonna be pretty cool guys so once again thanks for watching joining out some from Augusta Georgia over to like 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