6/25/11

Learned a shitty yet inevitable lesson today...you're never going to make everyone happy.

6/13/11

Phew! Saturday was a very busy day! I started tattooing at 11:30am, and didn't really stop until 9pm! it was AWESOME. haha. It was almost like an adrenaline rush. I loved how busy it was! Here's one of the tattoos I did that day. I was very proud of this one ;D she was an awesome client, very friendly and sat perfectly still.

6/9/11

I swear i need to put a post it on all the computers i use that say "WRITE IN YOUR BLOG" to remind me of this on a daily basis. Im so forgetful sometimes and it just bites me in the ass routinely >.< Today my daughter had a little graduation ceremony from Pre-K. I'm so amazed at how big she's already gotten.. feels just like yesterday she was learning to walk.

Anyhow, I finished the design for my Business Card, and sent the drawing to my very good friend Dana who works as a graphics designer. She's putting the rest of it together for me, which im pretty stoked about. She's amazing at what she does and she really wanted to do this for me. She's got three ideas thrown together that she'll be emailing me, and letting me choose one. I can't wait to see what she's done with it!

Well, off to bed for now. I'll -hopefully- write more tomorrow if i can one of these days remember this thing regularly >.< Goodnight!

6/4/11

Got two walk-in's today!! This is so awesome, haha. I watched some of the Mike Devries video on photoshop, which was pretty awesome. Although im still fairly clueless on how it works, i think i might be getting the hang of it a bit more each time i use it. I finished the drawing for my buisness card, and now i just need to get it all set up and sent in to be made. I'll be back in on monday, till next time!

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.

4/28/11

Not feeling well today, physically I mean. Ron tattooed me today, which was totally awesome! Im amazed every time i look at it :) :) anywho, Here's some tattoos ive done this week. A few notes on some of them --

The bird - That seafoam doesn't at all look solid in this picture. I can't tell or not whether he's bleeding through, or it just isn't solid...it looked solid when before i decided to wrap him up and send him off. He's going to stop in when its healed, so we'll see.

The larger Kanji -- He wanted it to look almost like graffiti. "Like you took a fat marker to it". I wish i could of faded out the purple, for more of a subtle look, but hey, client wants what they want, right?

The paw print -- I finished it in 20 mintues..that kid took solid black like none i've done before, either that or i've just gotten the hang of solid black, lol.

The feet stars -- They were some pretty shitty star tattoos on her feet. She wanted me to make them look more like "stars" and to fill them in black. we did a dark purple around them, probably cant really tell from the picture. She had a green around them, so the dark purple covered it up pretty okay.  The two pictures are the before and after.

Well, enjoy.

4/27/11

Here's two tattoos i did yesterday. Man..my black and gray definitely needs a lot of work >.< tried no outline, but then started to lose my stencil in the middle and ended up outlining parts of the bioshock splicer mask inside.

4/22/11

Today was pretty quiet. I did a skeleton key tattoo this afternoon, and it turned out pretty good if i do say so myself :) Still not super duper clean, but i'll get there. I don't have a picture to show you, as i couldn't get my camera to focus on the damn thing. I think its time to buy a new camera :P I had two more appointments starting at 4:00, but neither showed. I was fairly surprised, as i had tattooed one of them before, and he called me yesterday to confirm the appointment. Meh, maybe something came up. I've got a bunch of appointments for next week, which is totally awesome. As much as i love getting so many people in here, im assuming there will come a time where i'll be eager to take that flyer down, as im getting all sorts of..interesting..people.. haha.  Learning is learning right! always a good thing! Did some drawing for appointments next week, and now i've got to get some work done around the shop for tomorrow. Till next time!

-Melanie

4/21/11

Been a busy week! I counted my consent forms, and i've had 13 tattoo's this week! I think im finally starting to get the hang of this..i mean, still definitely far from perfect, but im getting there! Here's the photo's.

I'll post more later!