BLARGH!

Both my appointments for today sent me emails to cancel.. and one appointment i had on tuesday never showed up. C'mon people! Its free! >.<

3/30/11

Pretty quiet day at the shop. Did some drawing, working on light sources and such, and using different colors for highlights other than just white.

also -- Its fucking snowing. >.<


Till tomorrow!

3/26/11

Today was a good day! I did two tattoo's today, spur of the moment. :) My long time best friend dana, came in with her dad today, and i got to work on them! Dana has some kinda not so great tattoos on her feet, so i got to rework one of them today. She wasn't able to sit for all the recolor -- but we were able to work on the outline and get it all straightened out. Following that, i tattooed her father, The infamous Denny, and gave him the angry monkey from Family guy :) My lines are getting better, which made me super happy. I left work in a fantastic mood today, finally a little bit proud of myself. Here's the pictures!

3/26/11

Haven't posted in awhile. I just continue to manage to forget about this thing, haha. It'll eventually catch onto my daily routine. anywho --


I got to tattoo my friend jon yesterday. He has this horrible fear of needles, but I was able to getting him nice and relaxed, especially when i showed him the tattoo needles themselves, and how deep they actually go, which isnt much. He was pretty relieved after seeing that, haha. He wanted one of those melt tattoos, so I drew one up for him. It was a character grilled cheese, with a "im a rockstar" face, playing a guitar. I was so proud of myself by how my lines looked. They were clean, and not shakey, it was awesome. The shading on the other hand was a bit aggravating. I had this whole game plan in my head of what i was going to do with it in color, as that's what he had originally asked for. Well, once i finished the outline, he decided he wanted to go black and gray. I thought for a few minutes i how i would do this, got a mental picture, and went to work. The guitar and the grilled cheese itself ended up being around the same shade, and i wasn't sure how to fix that without going any darker, as it was already a bit darker than i would of liked it to be. Then my saving grace walks in my office (The bossman, Ron :) ) and took a look at it, told me where to put some white highlights on the guitar itself, to break the two apart. It looked so much better after that was done. Thanks Ron! <3

I grilled the guys some burgers and such yesterday in my downtime. Ron has a grill up here, and he buys steak, chicken, and burgers for us all the time, which is really really nice of him. I wish he felt more appreciated sometimes, less taken advantage of. Anywho, getting off subject here. So I'm the shop cook :) I love getting to cook for these guys, as its a huge passion of mine. I don't get to cook much at home anymore, minus sundays and mondays, so it's nice getting to do it up here, especially that they always compliment the food i make.  If we had a stove up here...good lord. These guys would be so fat... hahaha. I would constantly be making breakfast and such.

Might get to tattoo my best friend dana today. I'll have to ask the bossman when he comes in if that's alright. Im really excited for him to meet her, as i talk about her quite a bit.

Well, think I'm going to go draw for a few hours before the guys get here and the shop opens. Have a nice day!

3/21/11

I haven't posted in awhile! Still trying to get used to posting in this thing everyday -- or at least every other day. Last week was a good week. I got the chance to tattoo Ray. (he's the kid that works our lobby) Which was really exciting for me, as this guy is practically covered in tattoos, and i thought that by the time i was good enough where he'd let me tattoo him, all he would have left would be a finger. haha.

So I tattooed a banana on his back calf. Just a small one. Sadly at the moment I don't have a picture to show you :( we weren't able to finish the background behind it, as we were under a bit of a time crunch. So as soon as he's all healed up, and I finish the background, I'll post a picture! It was tons of fun, and I can't wait to finish that thing.

This week kind of stinks appointment wise, I've emailed out sketches to people, but haven't heard back. Emailed them again asking if they had a chance to take a look at them, but still haven't heard anything :(

This weekend with the husband and kids was nice. We went on sunday to get some professional pictures taken of the girls, and for Olivia's one year picture. They turned out really nice :) Maybe I'll post one when they come in.

Well, I've got some house cleaning and drawing and such to do before the day is over. Till tomorrow!

3/17/11

Happy Saint Patricks day!

So my starfish lady cancelled :( She sent me a big long email apologising up and down, worried about an allergic reaction to the red pigmented ink. (her son is heavily tattooed, and raised concern about her allergies) so no starfish tattoo :( Totally understandable though, i'd prefer she not take that risk, and i'd rather not take that risk either. Im going to repost my craigslist ad again today, and do it as many times as i have to (Someone keeps flagging it and it gets removed..it hasn't been lasting even 10 minutes at a time anymore) in order to try and fill up all next week. I think these big long gaps of not getting to practice is definately hindering my progress.

I think maybe i'll tattoo myself today to try and get some practice. Im not a big fan of tattooing myself..but hey, do what you have to do right? Ive got this unfinished lily flower on my ankle anyway thats been bugging the shit out of me, haha. Hopefully i can get more people in...or I'm going to end up with full leg sleeves! haha.

Here's to a good day! Hope you all have a nice one as well!

3/15/11

My last post was fairly depressing. I beat myself up waaaayy too much, and I appreciate all of the reassuring comments..you guys are great. :)

Today was a fairly quiet day. The past few weeks in the shop, things have been awesome. Everyone's been in a great mood. Laughing, joking around, and just flat out having fun. Its like all the winter blue's have lifted, and everyone's just...happy. Today I watched my boss do this black and grey reaper tattoo. Watching him work is pretty amazing, seeing how much he enjoy's it, and how passionate he is about it. He left fairly early, so I set to work on some drawing and shop related things. Toran (an artist here) said that he would cover up this god awful tattoo I have smack dab in the middle of my chest (piss poor mistake at 17 years old..) if I were to get creative and draw up something i'd like. I spent a few hours trying to figure out what might look good there, and would work well as a cover up. Shit's harder than i thought it would be, haha. I guess its different when its going to be permanent on MY body.

I have an appointment tomorrow to do this little starfish tattoo. She wants it to look sort of like a henna tattoo, so im going to fiddle around with it tonight at home and see what I can do with it. Going to make sure i wake up with a positive outlook tomorrow, and everything else will just fall into place. Im going to relax, breathe, and just go with it. No freaking out, no beating myself up, none of that crap.

...Jim is totally rocking out to Duran Duran "come undone" in the back room. Earlier it was Belinda Carlisle (or however its spelled) "Heaven is a place on earth". lol, I love this place. hahaha