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!

4/16/11

Today was going to be a really, really good day. I've been psyched all week about today.


Too bad it didn't turn out as I had hoped.

4/15/11

Today I had two appointments, and one walk in (saw my flyer at a store), so three total. Did my first Kanji symbol today, and i know its the first of many to come! Im actually excited about that, haha! Also colored in the angry monkey from the family guy that i outlined a few weeks ago, and did some initials on a guys arm. Im definitely so much more confident in myself than i used to be. Each one went smoothly, except for a small bump in the road with the kanji, which was just trying to find a good way to stretch the skin in that area. I eventually figured it out, so hurrah! Here at the tattoos.

4/13/11

Slow day today. Haven't really accomplished much of anything other than daily shop stuff, and a little bit of drawing. Think im just recovering from last night (yesterday was my birthday). Yesterday was probably one of the best birthdays i've had in awhile. The guys at the shop were great..They all pitched in for some pretty rad gifts, and were just extra nice to me..really made me feel "special", lol, as gay as that may sound. Ron let me go early for the day to go out to dinner with my husband, which was really awesome of him. Anyhow, I'm rambling. I've got some cleaning up and setting up to do for tomorrow. Till next time.

-melanie.