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One of the most important things about tattooing, or what makes a really good tattoo, is flow. I feel I always say that any type of flow really follows the rules of filigree. A video that I recommend everybody watching on YouTube is Jeff Goguay's How to Draw Filigree. It's a great and easy watch just to show you the basic rules of it. But generally, it's just this very loose-ass flow that we have right here. Some people . . I wouldn't want to say it's a mistake, because I feel It just looks a bit forced. When I think of flow and what makes something flowy, Imagine of a stroke you would make with your hand that you would use your whole arm and do it really fast and effortless. I want to see that it's an effortless flow. It really goes with any part of the body. This S-flow, it can go on the leg right here, on the thigh. It can go as an entire leg piece, even if you're doing a whole leg panel, the calf itself. It can even go on smaller parts A hand, it could be little banger tattoos that you would put on a small part of your body. Everywhere has an S-flow, some kind. Even the back has S-flows, but they're everywhere, and it's a great rule to follow. I think I What does that really look I love using hair and leaves as ways to incorporate flow onto the body, but I also use, it could be something as simple as an edge of a face. So as you see here, this is sort of the flow I'm going for. And you can see how we come to the edge of the tattoo, and then we have a hand, and you see this, even this ankle of the hand is purposefully there. So we go to the edge of this hand, and then we come around, and that is one S-flow that we have here. And then we have another S-flow that is coming to the bottom, So I use the leaf right here as part of my flow that comes to the top, even where I land my leaf, follows this. And then this comes down here, and that becomes the center of the flower. I love putting flowers upside down and at angle to draw your eye across it. And then we end it with leaves that follow, again, that same curve right here. So that's generally what it would look Even the edge of the face right here, I You want to lengthen it.
