You can make a tattoo stencil guide with some basic tracing paper.
It is necessary to have a tattoo stencil before beginning the tattoo process. This stencil will be placed onto the area where you would like a tattoo, and both the artist and the recipient will have a good idea what the tattoo will look like when it's done. The artist will also use this stencil as a guide while he's creating the tattoo. Whether you want a small butterfly on your wrist, or a huge landscape on your back, you will need a tattoo stencil to guide the process. Creating the tattoo stencil is one of the first steps to getting a tattoo.
Instructions
1. Place your tracing paper over the image you would like to turn into a tattoo stencil and trace the image. You should use either a pencil or a ball point pen. Quill, chisel, or other sharp pen points could rip your tracing paper.
2. Remove the filler paper from the stencil transfer paper pack. This pack will have four sheets of paper: sketch sheet, protective sheet, carbon paper, and a yellow piece of paper. Remove the protective filler sheet.
3. Tape your traced stencil to the sketch sheet on the stencil transfer paper pack with scotch tape.
4. Go over your image with a ball point pen. Press down firmly on the pen to ensure the sketch gets transfered to all sheets.
5. Cut your image out with scissors. The image that was left on the sketch paper is your tattoo stencil. You can now bring this to your local tattoo parlor and get inked.
