Tattoos
Beggars and Collectors
One of our local beggars paid my son and I a visit while we were parked at Sonic. A friend of mine calls him Paco, says he’s well-known in that area of town. Gary Oldman played four versions of the famous vampire in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I started work on the third one. That upper…
Cody Deegan
Mining and a Turnaround
I have been avoiding checking reviews on my app since I first developed it 7 months ago out of pure fear. A few days ago I looked for the first time and posted on the blog about how dismal they were. There were only three reviews, and two of them were 1-star. I actually wasn’t…
Crosses and Flowers
The time change almost screwed me up on the additions to the Jesus tattoo. I thought I had been working on his arm for three and a half hours, so when it was time to pay I almost charged him too much. Luckily I realized I hadn’t set the clocks back in the shop yet….
Lines and Bad Reviews
Tattoos with hard lines have never been my specialty. I tend to avoid them when I can. Today’s session was a tattoo that was only lines – no color, no shading, just lines. Well I got through it. And so did she. I think it was her first tattoo. She heads off to Texas for…
Cosmic Stuff
Well I’ve fallen behind a bit as usual and today I remembered that I needed to update the blog. I got to show off my iPad Pro to a good friend today by sketching up this quick little design. Spontaneous art can be fun to do. I continued work on a sleeve a few days…
Back to Work
I got a new design drawn up for the video game villains piece that I think I am starting this week. I had a server migration on both my website hosting accounts and I think it screwed up my email. I had sent my client some wardrobe ideas a while back and a few weeks…
Advertising and Tough Tattoos
I figure TattApp won’t sell if no one knows about it. I have some YouTube videos on my channel that have gotten tens of thousands of views, so I thought making a demo video with TattApp would be enough to get the word out. However after a few days the views on that video have…
Backpiece and Freehand
Yesterday I got in a couple more hours on this full backpiece of a lady wearing a headdress behind a wolf. The woman had healed up well from the last session and I spent the entire time getting the wolf into place. I always put the stencil on with the body in a neutral position…
Skull Octopus and Copyrights
Today was a repeat client getting a skull-octopus on her arm. Black and gray work is always fun. I enjoy creating depth with shading. We were going to run some tentacles down her back but ran out of time since I had to go pick up my son and my niece from school. Last night…
New Demo Video
I spent all morning creating a new video for my YouTube channel. I wanted to demonstrate some high-depth tattoo shading techniques and also showcase my app. This is the piece of art I created on the video. I think I have a day off tomorrow so I’ll do all the editing then. I have like…