That’s what its all about
Geez these last two weeks have been super fucking crazy!
I shot a wedding, which sucked ass, but I got some extra cash out of it. I still hate doing these damn things, but cash money makes the world go round.
I had been wanting to tattoo something for awhile now, and I ended up doing quite a few instead. I was really excited to get to do a large piece, because I get to be more creative and color things up, plus it emphasizes your work in my opinion. For the first tattoo I chose a koi fish because it didn’t seem too difficult and there where many lines, which meant “good practice”. I started off a little nervous because I didn’t know what I was doing, but once I got into it I was only concentrating on the tattoo and felt comfortable with what I was doing. In the end it wasn’t great but I’m comfortable with it considering I’ve only done one other and a retouch. Towards the end I was really pumped up on finishing it because I wanted to see the outcome, but my uncle tapped out on me so I didn’t get to finish the “eye” or any of the “fins”.
On Wednesday a young girl showed up for her first tattoo, Chad was already working on a client and he had another on the way. The girl brought with her a sketch of the design for the tattoo and this time I wasn’t nervous one bit I had just done one the day before so I knew what to expect on the order of things. I talked to her a little bit to make her feel comfortable, and that’s when I found out it was her FIRST tattoo. My goals going into this was STRAIGHT SOLID LINES and SOLID SHADING. I was pleased with the tattoo and I was happy because she was happy with it. I even got a 20. dollar tip!
The girl I tattooed on Wednesday brought her friend in to have some work done by me as well, so that was pretty kool. At this point I was really comfortable with what I was doing and tattooed the head of a panda inside of a heart, which by the way I had to draw over and over again until she like it. She was pleased with it, but I found out how hard it is for details in a small tattoo.
I also tattooed a hear with some music notes which turned out pretty gnarly, some of the notes looked funny, but it was flash and that how she wanted it.
I did another tattoo on Tuesday, which was on an existing client coming in to finish it up. There where previously two other artist who attempted do the line work on this piece, but it seemed they didn’t really care or weren’t into it. I wasn’t nervous at all, I totally had my game face on and went in head first. I did what I could and tried to hide some of the things I didn’t like and add to it in order to bring this tattoo to life. In the end the client was really pleased with the tattoo and couldn’t stop looking at his back through a mirror, and that’s what I think tattooing is all about “giving people something they’ll keep and love forever, not the looking into the mirror part”…
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