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Mike Devries - Let's Be Realistic, *Review* |
 Sep 19 2008, 05:17 PM
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Well, it arrived in the post yesterday, my brand new copy of Mike Devries new book "Let's Be Realistic".
Well packaged, wrapped in layers of paper and plastic sleeve, the book has a hard cover and 120 pages of full colour, quality glossy paper. Chapters include; 1. Milestones In Tattoo History A brief history on the art of tattooing. 2. My Personal Journey As A Tattoo Artist Mike Devries talks about his early days 3. Reference Laying the groundwork for a tattoo and the importance of using a quality reference. 4. Placement Choosing the correct placement for flow and fit. 5. Stencil Mike describes his stencil application techniques and offers a HUGE plug for stencil stuff. 6. Set-Up: Machines, Ink, Needles & More Mainly talks about Neuma machines. Discusses his preferred ink brands and colours he uses, skin tone palettes and needle types. 7. Applying Colour Theory To Realistic Tattooing Everything you need to know about colour and using the colour wheel to select background colours, complimentary colours etc 8. Creativity Using your creativity to make designs from reference and your head. 9. Technique When to line, when not to line.... Starting points, highlights, Needle techniques, skintone, palette and colour richness, Keeping your colours flowing, value & complimentary colours, light source, rotated lines, hair, cover ups, monochromatic tattoo, size location and overlaps, a recurring observation, what's the rush? 10. Photographing Your Art Work Tells all about cameras, aperture, shutter, point and shoots, DSLR's, settings, optimal photography conditions and more. 11. Presentation Printing and displaying your work in a portfolio. 12. Aftercare A brief description of his aftercare technique. 13. Gallery A stack of photos of Mike Devries works. All up, a little thin LOL, but great content. If you are into realistic tattoos and tattooing, this book is a must for you. http://www.mdtattoos.com/ Cheers -------------------- "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
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Sep 19 2008, 05:24 PM
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thanks for the overview, nice to get aheads up on what's new out there
-------------------- I'm only here because I'm not all there.
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Sep 19 2008, 10:34 PM
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how would you compare it to guy a's book? i was looking at MD book too but it did look very thin for the price
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Sep 19 2008, 10:48 PM
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It hasn't got the detailed info that Guy's book has. One thing I was hoping for in this book was diagrams and step by step pics, which there is a couple but no explanations to go with them. So in a nutshell, not as descriptive (or as good) as Reinventing The Tattoo.
-------------------- "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
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Sep 21 2008, 09:44 PM
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thanks alot i was really on the fence on if to buy this book or not...i guess if i get some extra cash it would be good to have
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Sep 30 2008, 03:44 PM
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how in depth does it go as far as working with a neuma setup? does it cover the aspects of how to use them differently for linework and shading? I haven't seen anyone out there really explain how they work with neumas as of yet...
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Oct 2 2008, 04:29 AM
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No he doesn't supply any information on the machine's use, just talks about their advantages, why he prefers them over electric machines and advises which compressors to go for. No real helpful information on techniques or anything like that unfortunately.
-------------------- "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
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Oct 15 2008, 12:29 AM
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damn pneumatics
-------------------- Love it or Leave it...
check my portfolio @ http://www.myspace.com/sioneproduktions |
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Oct 28 2008, 11:33 AM
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just got my copy of this in today... ill share my thoughts once I have a chance to go through it more thoroughly but the presentation is AWESOME. this is a beautiful book.. others out there should take a cue from devries as far as presentation and publication goes, it is very nice.
I got it through joker tattoo cause their shipping is free if your order is over a hundred bucks... otherwise I would have ordered from the man himself.. just a heads up on those that want to save some money if you decide to get this one. |
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Nov 1 2008, 11:56 PM
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all in all a great book, presentation-wise as well as content (though a bit limited, its good stuff). I would definitely recommend it. nightowl pretty much covered everything in the original post...
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