It's really important that I mention that I am not keeping this blog because I think I am amazing and because I am showing off. I think I'm pretty terrible, with potential. I know I can be good, even great if I keep trying hard, learning as I go and looking criticaly at every tattoo I do. I'm trying to post these so I can ask myself, "What could I have done that would have made this a better tattoo?" And, "What elements make it a strong tattoo."
I started this the other night. It's actually a logo for a clothing company called Crooks and Castles. It has come out pretty good so far. I'm looking forward to getting some more color and shading in it. There's some little bullets in the crown that would have looked better if I would have done them with a smaller needle. I did most of it with a 7 round, but that part should have been done with a 5 or something. This design really makes me want to design my own Medusa tattoo. Something that's Cthulhu inspired, with the snakes coming out of the face. The other thing it makes me want to do is design something with a technical aspect, like the bullets, that I can use little lines on. I don't really like so many lines, but the guy really liked the logo exactly as it is so that's what he got.
This sucks. I did an OK job on the tattoo, but should have spent more time on the design. This kid was so anxious to get started and he had this Cherry Creak tattoo design. He had a pic of a finished tattoo he found on the internet and I based my sketch off of that. I could improve this tattoo by spending more time drawing it. I should have explained to him the fact that he would benefit from letting me find some better reference art.
I try to put every tattoo I do on this blog so I can analyze them and force myself to acknowledge every mistake and improve as much as possible. This tattoo is not my favorite. It is really hard to pull lines that aren't black for some reason. This lady wanted this Gems tattoo to be very colorful. I should have spent more time making sure no residual color was left in the tube tip. It does not take much to tint the new color, especially on a tattoo this little.
Tribal Ram. Not much to say. It took about an hour. I lined it with a 7 round and filled it with a 7 mag. He might come back and get the same thing on the other side of his chest. Normally I'd blow a comment like that off, but this guy has been coming in every 3 or 4 weeks to get tattoos in the 70-200 dollar range. It took an hour and I think it looks clean. I could have made it better by... um... well maybe it would be a better tattoo if it was filled with a round shader. I don't know. It went pretty well.
Some ideas I have been kicking around. I want to do a like... sad flower princess thing and some crazy skulls. Oh I did a piercing too. I'm not going to post all the pictures of piercings I do, but I will be talking about my education in that field. I don't really care much about it. I will not be doing anything really artistic with it. I am not a body modification artist (in that manner of speaking). But if I can make an extra 60 bucks a day by poking holes in teenage girl's noses, I'm going to do the best damn hole pokin' I can do!
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