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From here on out I will be posting all my tattoos in this thread.
Starting out, here is my most recent tattoo done on my wife. Be gentle ;)
https://sphotos-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/q81/1013288_10151668946509475_2075175861_n.jpg
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Here’s my biomech tattoo!
https://sphotos-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q84/s720x720/1236083_10151681258779475_776266940_n.jpg
Yeah, so the client decided he didn’t want something that crazy for his first tattoo so we went with these gaming dice instead. I’ll have a less blurry picture on Saturday when I see him again. Had a few holidays in this one. Not my best, but I am pretty happy with the MOM’s ink so far! At least the red is pretty good :) -
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I looked at it again, and looks like some of the lines will need to be done again as well
what I like to do when I do my shades, and highlines is I’ll take a sharpie, or any marker, and I’ll put two lines on the skin. kind of like a sun beam. this way I can’t forget where my light source is, and its a quick reference for where my shades should be :D -
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@Tattoo Deshi wrote:
Looking much better then the the stick figure you did.lol sorry if I sounded harsh on that post don’t mean for it to come off that way
Lol don’t worry about it, I’ve come a long ways since then! Oh and now that that stick figure has healed it really does looks a LOT better. It was on my brother-in-law so I get to see it all the time.
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@Infamous wrote:
@Tattoo Deshi wrote:
Looking much better then the the stick figure you did.lol sorry if I sounded harsh on that post don’t mean for it to come off that way
Lol don’t worry about it, I’ve come a long ways since then! Oh and now that that stick figure has healed it really does looks a LOT better. It was on my brother-in-law so I get to see it all the time.
+1 on your journey thus far ;D
Every journey starts with the first step. And you my friend, have taken alot of steps ;) -
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http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/783/f7kf.jpg
Not really very happy with this piece. Its very plain, not my style at all :/ It’s what he brought me to do though, except I moved the lettering from horizontal to vertical for him.
This is what I had planned:
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/9316/xa0v.jpgExcept I was going to do a solid fill of the background and let all those letters and circles and scroll things pop out, add some cracks here and there and toss in some gray shading
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My problem is I don’t know how to get people BACK in the chair. I have a hard time saying anything to point out my work could be better to a client, I always want them to think it is just absolutely amazing. Even when I know I could do more.
How do I go about telling a client I want to do more to their tattoo?
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Thats a tuff one actually.
Firstly, be honest, I know, its hard and thinking it would ruin some reputation. But better to be honest and say, Oh man, this really needs more work. Then saying. This is sooooo cool, you will love it.But once they have left the chair…. And you think it needed more… Well then its really hard, unless its a person you see often.
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About the 2 hour mark, he asked me if the letters looked okay the way they were. I said yeah they look Okay just let me touch them up a bit more, which I did.
What I really want is a chance to do something amazing! I need a conversation starter piece and I think my clients, well, they don’t have the money for me to do that.
The next time this happens, I’m seriously thinking about just asking if they have somewhere to be, and if the answer is no then stopping the clock for them. But at the same time I only charge $40 per hour so still what to do.
I guess I just have to choose art over money, which is okay, for me its definitely not about the money anyways.
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Put it like this;
You charge 40 bucks an hour. And you really want to do something amazing right? Then I would have to say, Forget the money at this point.
If thats the barrier your clients have at this moment, and they only want to pay two hours tops…. I then think you have to be more flexible in this.You can A
Do what you do, and charge pr hour everytime. This will leave you with only two hours work, even though, you could do soooo much more. And you will never do any thing spectacular. You show these pieces to future clients, and they will be like… Mjaaa…You can B
Forget the money at this point. And go at a piece 3 to 4 hours, maybe more (charge for the two hours, and embrace the other two) This will give you a chance to shine brightly, really show clients what you CAN do. Call it an investment in your future clientel…Now if you dont show what you can do with more time, people will never let you do more then 2 hours… This is mt take on this, I have done some “charity” work, and it payed of. ;)
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Just wanted to share my facebook page, I just made it last night, so there’s not much on it but there will be more coming!
If you haven’t already seen it, and liked it 8-) the link is http://facebook.com/inkbyinfamous
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um. Anyway..
Just got to do this piece today, I’m really happy with it! It’s the first time I’ve got to work with so much color.
https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/575327_658754277483125_548572322_n.jpg
Used a 3rl for lining and 5rs for the color
Kuro Sumi outline, and Mom’s Millennium Ink for Colors -
how do you feel about millennium mom’s?
as far as the tattoo the design is good, but you need to really watch how you’re tatting.
some lines look scratched, and others are blown out
the outline is pretty shaky
your lines arent very consistent either which makes the symmetrical look completely die
you could have also used different colour values in the design to add depth
it’s very flat
its hard to tell with the flash but it looks like you lost the shape of the triforce, and also looks like there is green in it?did you put ointment on before taking the photo? i usually do it after to avoid the shine from the flash!
sorry for being so harsh, but I can see the large image now that I’m on my dads pc
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Its okay, that’s why I post here! I need to hear these things ;)
I don’t know about blow out, but I’ll agree some are really shakey. I was trying to get some fine lines by using a 3RL but probably should’ve used at least a 7… Actually there may be some blowout from the red now that you mention it.
What happened with the green in the tri-force was that I colored the tri-force first in yellow, then did the blue and when I wiped some of my blue got in the yellow and made green :cry: I’m really hoping it heals yellow. Lesson learned, color from the outside in!
It’s really shiny but I swear there is no ointment on this, I don’t know what to do to fix that :/
I’m pretty happy with the colors, they went in nice and smooth and are very bright and pretty. As long as they heal well, I’ll be sticking with them.
edit: and yeah, I probably should’ve shaded this it would have given it more depth and made the lines less noticeable, but unfortunately that was an after thought. I’ll see this client again in two weeks for more so depending on how it looks I might be able to add shading then..
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A shame with the lines though…. It really looks like you didnt get a good strecth on this one.
Oh a little colouring tip here. Always start with the darkest colour. Whites for last, and just before that, yellow. Remember your are making a hundred holes in the skin, and they are left opend. When darker colour “glides” in lighter color areas, they will mix up, and you get a complete different colour.
Again, its not a “must do”, since you actually can start with lighter, then work up to a darker. But its just too damn easy wipping over the areas… -
My plan was to work on the lightest colors and up to the darkest, but I abandoned that as soon as I saw green in my yellow.
Also, I was intending on making the winged part Black, but then she’s like nope I want it red :oops: this was of course after I had lined it, and was hoping to be able to cover it up with the fill
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Got another pic from the client, its a little fuzzy bit it shows a very bright yellow which I am beyond relieved to see!
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Remember those awful tattoos I posted here a while back on my Dad that I was asking advice on how to cover-up?
Here’s one of them :D
https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/536248_664232100268676_1917708368_n.jpgIt’s a traditional style eagle done over the words “Lone Rider” on my Dads forearm
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My wifey’s second tattoo
https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/1391859_674439872581232_1773506647_n.jpg
“Dive Deep Drown Willingly” a quote from one of her favorite books.. (I’m not sure which, actually) but its one out of the Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker.
Also I had to note that color I mixed for that green looks like it would do nicely someday for a realism background on a jungle theme. It’s 5 drops of Ectoplasmic Green, 3 drops of Hello Yellow, and one drop of White by Mom’s.
I used a 3RL, 9RL, and 7RS for this and even though I had more of the regular black tubes I had to try out my new freeflows. They were so much more comfy compared to my old ones and have a really big ink reservoir :)
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Excellent question!
It has to do with the story, and I’m sure my wife could explain it much better than I can but here goes; The story goes something like this (and it makes more sense if you understand the Christian religion) there are these people with this terrible skin condition where they look stony and nasty but if they go down to this water (Elyon’s water) they can bathe in it and they’ll be fine for the rest of the day but they’ll wake up again the next day the same as they were before. In reference to the color, the blood that was shed in the water, once it was shed the water turned very colorful and the person who had “drowned” in the water came up and was completely cured from the disease.
Does that make sense?
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Yeah lol, she specifically told me she did not want blue at all. My original sketch for her definitely sported the blue with just a little red in it.. But it means more to her this way so, okay :) And I was going to put highlights in the drop but she wanted it solid red. Let’s just say my wife is one of those difficult clients lol
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This just in! :)
I did an ambigram on myself, one way is my name “Jeremiah” the other is my wife’s “Samantha”
https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/q71/1002578_674896392535580_579918122_n.jpg
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This one is quite cool.
Now lets just hope you gus stay together and six month in the grave as well :PHahaha I always makes people think about a name tattoo (of their spouse) 5 times. ;) Or at least do it in a lighter color then black, that way, IF the unspoken happens, then the tattoo can be covered ;)
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