5/31/11

Today was an absolutely amazing day. Ron informed me today that i will be put on the floor for small tattoos! I go purchase my vendor's license tomorrow morning, and then sign the contract when i arrive to work! It took every inch of me not to jump up and down and squeal like a school girl, haha! I also got to do this really rad rose today on a pretty awesome chick. God, I am so fucking excited i can't stand it!

5/30/11

Today is Memorial day, as well as my wedding anniversary. Did some drawing this weekend, been working a bit on lettering and such as when it comes time to start taking walk-ins, it would be nice to be able to throw something together quickly to impress clients. I've got two appointments this next week, which im pretty excited for.

I'll scan some drawings in tomorrow, and post a few to show things i've been doing lately with my free time. Till then! Have a nice memorial day ;D

5/27/11

Been awhile again on my last post, as i've had a bit of trouble logging into blogger. Kept receiving an error 404 message "page not found" whenever i tried to log on. Been a quiet week, but i have two appointments later today. I also plan on working on my business card some more today, and to watch some how to use photoshop videos. I'll post more later today about how everything went.

5/21/11

Pretty quiet for a saturday. Watching Ron do a really cool chest piece on his client. It never stops amazing me how quickly and flawlessly his pieces come together. Guess thats what 20+ years and passion for this art turns into :P Off to Canada to visit my sister when i get off tonight, kind of a long drive after a long day, but well worth it.

5/20/11

Been awhile since i've last posted..as it's been a week since i did my last tattoo. It's been pretty slow for me as of late with getting appointments, due to a few changes. Hopefully things will pick back up soon :) I did two tattoos today, the first i didn't use a liner whatsoever, just a 7 mag. The second i used a liner for the harley shield, and a 7 mag for the skull. Im trying to work more on my light sourcing..i see a few mistakes i made now, looking back at them, but i'll get the hang of it. The buddah is a shitty picture.. I couldn't seem to take one that did it any justice at all. Ron got to see it in person, and he said it looked good. So we'll see.

Enjoy.

5/11/11

Tried something new today with this one. No black outline. Im pretty happy with it, and so was the client ;D ;D ;D Too bad she was super tan so the lighter colors weren't as bright as i would of liked them to be, but all in all im happy :)

5/10/11

Simple day.

Getting a little bit better with parallel lines.

5/9/11

For some reason i thought i posted these pictures saturday, but looking at my blog i guess i didn't. I had three appointments on saturday, one was a rubber duckie, another was a USDA PRIME stamp on a mans butt (yes, really, haha) and a butterfly.

I only have two pictures here, as i forgot to take a photograph of the ass tattoo. It was actually really fun, haha! he had a pretty good sense of humor. anywho, his wife got the rubber duck. That one was definitely a new experience. It was like the second the needle touched her, she started to swell up. So i took the knowledge that my boss gave me way back when i first started, and got in and out as fast as i could while still giving her a clean tattoo (or at least trying to anyway). Here's the pictures of the butterfly and the rubber duck.

5/6/11

Here's a few more tattoo's that i've done recently. The kanji is the final one for the kid's set of three that i've done, and the second rose is on the same woman who i did the first one on, this is just on the opposite side of her chest. The bee was fun to do, although the gray top half of the bee is driving me nuts, as i should of one more with it, i think all in all its not bad. I tried to be a little bit creative with it, and try something new. The mom and dad was on a young womans wrists, obviously noticeable from the picture, lol. Im not happy with the dad one, as i made the lines too fat in that last d, and tried to blend it a bit more by bolding the other letters a bit more. I could of done a better job, but i was worried about just continuing effing it up and the letters just becoming block letters.

Enjoy.

5/3/11

Today was a very good day. Did this little butterfly tattoo on the woman I did the second witch hat on. She's a lot of fun to work with. She originally wanted to get this teddy bear tattoo, but she decided against it last minute and we went with the butterfly instead. Enjoy!

5/2/11

Here's a few more tattoos ive done recently. I'm getting better at blending my colors more smoothly, less abruptly. The Rose was fun to do, as it was the first flower i've actually done during this apprenticeship. I'm surprised at that actually, that i hadn't gotten more "i want a flower" requests, lol. The lettering on the wrist was a change of pace, as all the lettering I've done so far has been VERY basic. I used a 5 liner, to try and get the areas that went from fat to thin easier. The witch hat was on the best friends foot of the one i did a few days ago. She wanted purples and pinks instead of the blues. Im not nearly as happy with this one as i am the first one, as i didn't get to shade as much as i wanted to around that swirl hook type deal at the bottom (she'd had enough) So she's coming in again at some point for something else, and im going to finish it then.