Pics n' Thoughts 6

I got Nikko Hurtado's instructional DVD for father's day and I want to use his technique to tattoo this lioness on my wife.  I already used his stenciling technique to create this drawing, well, a modified variation of it anyway.  I definitely have the confidence to pull this off and if I'm successful I will be doing colored portraits in no time.  I think I'd do better at this type of tattoo than other tattoos with more line work.

Here's my current challenge.... fix/ cover this.  I have no idea what to do with it... thank God this kid's down with ANYTHING.

In two days I'm going to attempt tattooing this all the way around a guys arm... kind of nervous about it... I'll post pics...  Nikko Hurtado  gives the recipe for his stencil solution in his video, I've tried it out a couple of times now and it's pretty impressive.  I'll definitely have to use it on this piece.  I spent many hours (like 2) writing this out.  It's actually pretty huge, 3/4" letters, each row is a little over 13" long.  It's pretty much going to be a half sleeve of script.  I should be pretty good at letters by the time I'm done with this.  I know the rows aren't spaced well, I'm going to cut them into strips and wrap them around the guy's arm... I'll cry if he flakes.

This is a carebear with a cubs logo on it's belly.  I think the "C" is shit but the rest is as good as a 4" care bear can be... sadly this is probably the most interesting and colorful tattoo I've had the opportunity to do at Rochester Tattoo.

This is a font.  It came out pretty clean.  I was trying to create the thick/thin effect as I went but I had to go back and clean up almost all of it.

I hope I get a chance to see this healed.  I used some watered down smoke colored (eternal color) ink in the metal part, in some of the highlight areas, hoping to create a metal look.  I hope it works out OK.  I had a ton of fun on this one.   It took 2.5 hours.  I used a bugpin 7mag in the medallion and a 7 mag on the rest.  I used a 5 liner to shade in some detail but didn't outline any of it.   It's not as big as it looks in the pic,  the whole thing fits on a sheet of regular paper.  The customer is pretty cut, but he's actually a little guy.  He sat like a rock though.

This is flash.  Another artist traced the line work for me,  I hate it.  I used an 8 round for the whole thing.

I did a belly button piercing this week.  It's terrible.  The licensed piercer marked it.  It is way crooked and off center.  I wish I cared more about piercing... it would be nice to have the extra money.  I just have a really hard time getting into it.




Well that's it for now; thanks for reading!