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