November 5, 2009

Nikki came in today to start color on the tattoo... The previous color tattoos I did I ended up coloring it with just a regular mag. I learned right away how difficult it was to color with it! Especially using a shader machine instead of a color machine. So I decided to take Victor's advice after showing me the VERY significant differences between the mag and the color mag, and go with the color mag on this tattoo... and damn did it make a HUUUGE difference. The colors just popped out! I was really excited about this piece since it was my first vividly colored piece.













I need to start building my tattoo portfolio... GIMME YOUR SKIN!

October 30, 2009

Two years later... I FINALLY get to tattoo Amanda! We've been talking about all kidns of stuff to do on her and we never actually did it. I recently got reconnected with her so it was pretty rad. She's been modeling for the past 4 years or so, so it'll be tight since she's gonna be modeling my work now! I'm gonna start doing all her gamer tattoos because she's on this site called "gamergirls.com" which is one of THOSE sites... But it's cool! I realized I really wanna tattoo video game characters, cartoons, comic book characters, and pretty much anything that was nostalgic of when we were young; sooo nerdy of me, but who cares.

October 28, 2009

I've been trying to get my brother into the damn shop since I did his sugar skull. I wanted to just go crazy with shading and coloring it. I noticed the significant difference between color mags and regular mags... I'll never shade with a color mag ever again.


I really wanna get a photo of this after it's healed. I don't like the bloody shit, it's getting in the way of the bright greeeeeen.

October 23, 2009

When I first met Jana, she mentioned that she wanted unicorns on her chest and that she'd want me to do them whenever I felt ready to do so.... 7 months later, this idea becomes a reality! She wanted it "My Little Pony"-esque, so that's where I got the inspiration to draw it up the way I did. 3 1/2 hours later...








Damn, tattooing for that long was exhausting.

October 22, 2009

Nikki came in and I had ran out of ideas to tattoo on her... til we came across this cute turtle and it gave me an idea to do a whole underwater scene on her other leg! So of course, I picked the octopus to do first... She then suggested that she wanted a bow on it so it inspired me to do a really girly and cutesy underwater scene haha.

October 16, 2009

Hannah hit me up for some peace signs on her feet, I was pretty down to do them because they were simple. After I did them, they just looked so... plain. So after drawing some swirly things coming out of them, we finally agreed on doves. I was originally planning on doing just silhouettes, but Frog talked me into shading them. They were so cute!








I had reunited with Rachael a few days before at Gorilla Radio after not seeing her for about 3 years. We were coworkers at Vans and I lost touch with her when I quit. She was gonna see Bob Dylan on Sunday, so she wanted his name tattooed on her ass. Hahaha... first ass tattoo!





Sorry for the shitty quality flicks. I didn't have my camera so I had to take them con mi telefono.

October 15, 2009

Today I drew up a piece to do on Nikki for her calf (my favorite area to tattoo). I got the idea from a Joe Capobianco drawing and made it my rendition... I enjoyed doing this piece! The session was 3 hours long and it's probably one of my favorite pieces that I've ever done.














I think I'm probably gonna add more color to it once it heals...