October 4th, 2007
This was a tattoo the girl got about 12 years ago I think it was her first one or some where about that. She liked the concept of the yin yang sun but it had badly faded along with spotty line work.
She wanted the old Kanji covered and two fish added to represent her zodiac Pisces. I have one fish light and the other darker to keep with the Yin yang motif. I was able to redo the original and cover the old without being able to tell there was a tattoo under there.
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October 4th, 2007
I tend to do tattoos with more form and not so simple in structure. I was asked to do this Dias de los Muertos type tattoo. It is based off of a Latin American concept the “Tres Generaciones” Birth, Life, Death . This was the sculpture she found to give me for reference but I was to separate and stack them because they were going on her leg.
I drew up the art for the design with Birth being a skull covered in flowers, Life being the sun (heavily featured in Latin American culture) and the Death skull being represented with the web and spider.
I found through research and the tattoo owner that the skull designs don’t have a set meaning. The decoration is purely left up to the artist or individual. That made designing easier for the fact that tattoos are permanent and when you mess up an Iconic tattoo or something in another language; even with a clever cover up or fix it still will never be the same as just having done it right the first time.
Here I got most of the tattoo done. I went with gray wash over doing blue for shading to keep the tattoo from looking cartoony. I need to finish the Birth head with the flowers and then color in the sunrays and the leg will be ready for the next tattoo.
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October 4th, 2007
This is a sleeve cap I just started working on. The piece seems cramped but the client is in college and plans on going into the professional world and needs to have the tattoo kept undercover even in a t-shirt so as not to be prejudiced against.
I tend to do nothing but original art unless provided by the actual client so as to keep things custom. Here he wanted a more traditional piece and so I used some flash inspired art from an artist named Henning. I used his basic Koi deign and then totally changed the wind/water bars and the whole coloring of the fish along with the face structure so as not to make a cookie cutter piece.
The first stage was to do the line work. I like to keep line work simple and not rely on it so much but use it to keep the structure together and use shading and color to give it form
The next stage was to color the fish along with the waves breaking and wrapping around it.
The next session will be to finish off any details in the fish and waves and then move on to the tedious task of filling in the wave bars.
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