These are pictures of a tattoo I actually did out of my house before I started at Rochester Tattoo. It was a wedding present. This guy had a tribally lion T-shirt he liked the design on it and wanted his arm to have a similar style. I was pretty happy with it, but the placement is weird because the lion's face is on the inside so when you see the tattoo it just looks like a bunch of random ass swirls and lines. Also, people keep asking him when he's going to get it finished. The customer loves it.
These are supposed to be crow wings. I like the placement and size. I also thought it was cool to work some other colors into the wings, like the blues and purples. I tried really hard to put a lot of detail in the feathers which may have been a mistake. I also don't believe they look much like wings. I was so focused on the feathers that it just looks like a spread of feathers and doesn't have enough of the wing form. Simplifying this design would have made it much nicer. She says she loves it. I should really ask her to stop by the shop so I can see it healed. This girl sat like a champ!
This is the first traditional design I've done (strictly/classical traditional). It was actually really fun and I think that every tattooer should do a little traditional work. It really builds a foundation for developing designs with balance and clean lines. I traced the flash transfer exactly, that's why the hands suck so much. Also I was too lazy to rotate the pic, sorry.
I outlined this in an hour with a 14 round. I drew it on his back with a marker. It's OK. I really hope he comes back to get more work done so I can improve it a bit. The two A's aren't close enough to identical and I don't like some other things about it. I really wish I would have spent more time designing this. It's not very good.
These two guys came in together and had these drawings with them. The top one is supposed to be the symbol from the movie Alien and the other one is a wiggly colorful tribal design. I should have modified the tribal design. He said he wanted it EXACTLY like his painting, I should have cleaned it up anyway. One huge mistake I didn't notice when he was sitting in front of me is in the upper right area of the yellow there is some blue ink that mixed with the yellow and made a green spot. Also the black in the far left branch comes in too far. This guy loved his tattoo and I know they say that's all that matters but I hate this thing and I'm glad I have a picture of it to remind me to take my time and think ahead.
His last name is Himle (pronounced "him lee")This guy sat for 5 hours and this is his first tattoo. I thought he was going to die at the end there. I know I could have done it faster if I had different tools available. The only machines I had available at the time were the ones I use for a small configuration liner and the one I use for gray shading and I had to do the whole thing with a 7 mag. Now I have a Pulse machine that runs like a damn V8 engine and I could push this whole thing in with 13 mags probably in half the time. I noticed that the "M" in the middle looks shorter than the rest of the letters. It's because the letter tapers off to the points at the top and the points of the taper are the same height as the top of the "I" and the "L". That's something to take into account. The points should probably have come up taller so the letter balanced out well. I may not have that problem when using a real font instead of making up letters. I'm really interested in taking a typography class next semester. I think this guy's almost healed. I know he doesn't want a touch-up so he's scared to come in but I may be able to get him to send me a pic.
This picture was taken after the tattoo healed.
Alright. That's it for now. I'll keep posting.
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