Reinventing The Tattoo Forum

Hi guys, I was wondering how you approach solid black? (like tribal), I have been struggling for a while now, and every time I ask my mentor about it his answer is always "YOU'LL GET IT WITH TIME AND EXPERIENCE", I have use curved magnums and flat magnums, I find it to work better with the flat magnums but am still struggling. Specifically I am having trouble getting solid black- lots of empty spaces.