Eternal Concentrates

carterink · #1 05-26-2010, 10:36 AM

Hey, this is my first post, and this is the first thing i can think of posting. Hopefully it's not an idiotic question, and i tarnish my name immediately.

Been using eternal for a little over a year now. I've been working side by side with several other artists with close to 15 years experience and atleast a few years of exp. with eternal. We've been through a few full sets of eternal and the concentrates always sit to one side and never get touch. No one seems to have ever thought of using them because they all look like black. What is the intended result when using them? Are they made to be diluted and use for washes or just one intense deep purple? Especially when I think there is a purple concentrate, and eternals dark purple is already almost a shade shy of black

Frek · #2 05-26-2010, 10:42 AM

Dude, what did your mentor tell you? The Pro's know....

carterink · #3 05-26-2010, 11:15 AM

none of us learned with eternal. We've all transitioned to it. Never heard of any concentrate pigment

TattooPadawan · #4 05-26-2010, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carterink

Hey, this is my first post, and this is the first thing i can think of posting. Hopefully it's not an idiotic question, and i tarnish my name immediately.

Been using eternal for a little over a year now. I've been working side by side with several other artists with close to 15 years experience and atleast a few years of exp. with eternal. We've been through a few full sets of eternal and the concentrates always sit to one side and never get touch. No one seems to have ever thought of using them because they all look like black. What is the intended result when using them? Are they made to be diluted and use for washes or just one intense deep purple? Especially when I think there is a purple concentrate, and eternals dark purple is already almost a shade shy of black

I use the Blue and Purple all the time.
Helps for a nice color transition. (at least for me)

carterink · #5 05-26-2010, 11:24 AM

and i don't mean to be disrespectful in anyway, but i don't see how people believe that their teacher new EVERYTHING. No ones does. they may know alot, but they'll always be a generation back, and experienced with one thing and not another. That's why we interact with other artists. Just figured i'd ask a simple question

Frek · #6 05-26-2010, 12:12 PM

Just sounded like a question an apprentice would ask didn't mean anything by it.......Im not even in a shop anymore my apprenticeship lasted a month and two weeks and I learned nothing at all..... But for as long as I've been following tattoo art I've never heard of any concentrate accumulating in eternal ink........

Joe · #7 05-26-2010, 12:37 PM

You can use these concentrates to either darken your lighter colors or mix them with different amounts of white and/or other colors to get that specific color that you're looking for. Palette style dip method not full bottle type darkening/lightening. But you could do that also if you wanted.
If you already have Eternal's complete full range of colors then you probably aren't going to need them but find a use for them in your tattooing. Make it interesting.
I don't like sharing pigments and don't want anyone touching mine. I trust me because I know what I've been touching and when I clean my hands. I'm just weird like that.

carterink · #8 05-26-2010, 12:55 PM

i appreciate. That's the answer i was looking for. What i figured, but wasn't sure. And i feel you. i actually keep all our inks in the clean room and make everyone put on gloves when entering, and definately a fresh pair when handling inks. We run a strict regiment for sterile practice.

devilsdaughter · #9 05-27-2010, 04:03 AM

i like using them to accentuate dark areas when u are avoiding a bold outline. , esp in flowers for example. they make good dark areas without using straight black. i think its more visually interesting than doing black shading to imply shadow sometimes..it gives the peice a more complex tonal range...just what i use them for personally! i do have the full eternal set and they arent used as much as some others, id agree there...

travelingtom · #10 05-27-2010, 10:44 AM

concentrates dont apply quite as dark as they appear in the bottle, i like to use concentrates and blacks together to get a smoother transition from a darker tone to my lighter colors. and since i tattoo ass backwards, how thin the ink is helps when i apply my darks, because i cant really pound them in, i have to more or less softly shade them in.