9 tail fox sketch

Skibbidy skabbiddy skoobity, dis guys gona be all ova ya boobidys

cropped, because, lazy.

Bulk Tattoo Update, lots of inprogress, and one finished chest snake tattoo

Robbys Tiger and Tribal tattoo rework

 12 year old tattoo, reworked close to a chest peice that wraps super far onto a usmc buddys upper shoulder

Buddha cover-up tattoo

 Buddha tattoo, a honor to be doing this, and learning the teachings as i work on it.

Johns Demon Hand coverup tattoo

 this red demon head hand tattoo is actually a coverup, hammered in a few times, hope it heals good this time :O

phoenix tattoo

 fire birdy rib tattoo action, dark picture :O

matts Zerg Hydralisk knee tattoo- the begunning of another sleeve

 hydralisk knee cap tattoo, zerg, starcraft creature, going to be a whole leg of black and grey dedicated to it. super stoked on this tattoo, not surprised that its on one of my most dedicated clients, matt, whos, the bees knees, or the.. zerg knees...

erics venus flytrap side tattoo progress

 venus fly trap, 5-6 hour session on erics thigh, this things as big as my hand. you can see where the tatto rears onto his hip, and crotch divent on upper left od the pictures, the stretch marks are from his butt, so you can now go stab your eyes out, durr

erics venus flytrap rib tattoo progress

 more venus fly trap update, apparently i like to post blurry pictures, i think this was after 6-7 hours of tattooing?? theres a ton more under the flys, the flys look like crap due to a super rough waistband heal, which i honestly dont blame him for

Robbys DONT TREAD ON ME chest tattoo with snake and badassery

dont tread on me, on a super badass, one hitter quitter robbie n, beast status, was super awesome, as always.

skull/IRISH half sleeve, and oil painting

Dan the man's lucky Irish longhorn skull arm tattoo

This is one of my best clients, his names Dan, and hes fucking rad.

i might be commissioned by him to paint one of his electric guitars, which would be a interesting portfolio piece to have/ cool to do for someone who i feel like i can see eye to eye with, this was a Irish tattoo, that he previously go, as his first tattoo from me, awhile back at the first shop i worked at, lucky was one of his best friends, who died of his consumption of booze, but which i find so interesting, he knew he was going to die, and... moved away on everyone, to go die among strangers.

... strangers...

they meet, become best friends, lovers, and then.. become strangers again...

i was talking to him, telling him how i usually defensively turn away from people, when a relationship ends, hell, im never fully invested anyway.. and i just, cut the tie, and walk away, because nothing has ever been normal, between me and her, and because of my failure to grow, im going to try and take a positive step forward, and not do what i always do, its easier, and so much more pain free, but i think i deserve to feel... 

(he mentioned that i was a old soul... people always tell me that... that... i was maturely thinking and changing my ways at a younger age then most people hes around in his own age.. which was really a cool thing to hear... it only matters, when people compliment you... if you respect them, i have a lot of respect for Dan, hes a mythological creature)

"on these cold nights the silence never helps it's just a wake up call, a wake up fall and i should've braced myself but what fun would that have been i

would have missed out on feeling"

i think i need to stop taking the easy path in life, and dealing with things, by turning my back, in almost, a immature cowardly way.. im hoping to grow and learn from this.. she gave me more then i could ever ask from someone, and she tried so hard to snap me back to reality, and make me see with eyes unclouded... but she couldn't... keep up... the fight....

im grateful for everything she let me have, for her being in my life, i have to rise above and stop this feeling bad for myself, self hatred bullshit, liveing in the past isnt anyway to live in the future...

and, if this is done.

if it truley is 

and i hope it isnt, but thats my problem

how do you ask someone back who.. tried so hard to.. make it work, and you didnt even.. notice..

regardless, if its done.

"it hurts when something good ends, but clinging to it knowing its done is more painful" than k you tum tumm, for your wise crunchy cookies of fourtian goodness..

im trying to lear the beauity of letting go.

atleast she wants to still talk, and be my freind.

some days i dont think i deserve that.

 who knows.

all i can do is dream, send my aura's soaring into the atmosphere, channel my energy,  mourn my dead, and fourge things out of my pain, work towards.... maybe a new beginning. she has a peice of me, and i have a peice of her. why doesnt this feel... done...

where my closure?

'cause i want more.

Human Heart oil painting

"You shimmy-shook my boat, Leaving me stranded all in love on my own"
an oil painting with gooy shitty feelings like everything seems to be giveing me these days
part of a grander picture, which will hold the metaphore, of, pain, and a 6, ghost armed figure, whos chest is shattering like glass, exposeing a landscape... gaurd thy heart

Digital plane sketch "If I had a voice, I would sing"

Dark Art digital painting by DAVID Ekstrom

my inspiration for a travelingly emotionally inspired musical

digital sketch that sort of grew itself into what it is now.

nobody will ever understand this, and that's why its beautiful to me.

well, maybe one person will, but i dont think she wants to listen to me anymore.

This will never end

THIS WILL NEVER END
'Cause I want more
More, give me more
Give me more

This will never end
'Cause I want more
More, give me more
Give me more

If I had a heart I could love you

"If I had a voice I would sing"

After the night when I wake up
I'll see what tomorrow brings

Ahhhhhhh Ahhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhh Ahhhhhhh

If I had a voice, I would sing

Dangling feet from window frame
Will I ever ever reach the floor?
More, give me more, give me more

Crushed and filled with all I found
Underneath and inside
Just to come around

More, give me more, give me more

Ahhhhhhh (Ahh) Ahhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhh (Ahhhh) Ahhhhhhh
If I had a voice, I would sing

Working my emotions on canvas

 chaotic regretful scorching of ideas smokeing through his head.

 a failure to produce an idea i had, not everything comes out how you plan

 The wakeup call,  wakeup fall.
a tragity, something beautiful drownd to death on land.
letting go, helplessness and pain.
white dress's i figured had something to do with purity, an idea of a foolish thought i had.

Moth chest tattoo

Her Moth chest Tattoo

Moth chest tattoo, fire ring circle, and apparently a evil eye? idk, i just like putting eyes in everything, oh, and crystal buttox, swirly negative spaced doodads and some wingdings filigree stuff.
multiple, multiple layers to create this tattoo, it had some rough healing in there, but, due to this being something i see frequently, i got to put them through David Ekstrom's healing boot camp, which usually ends up identifying, through two sets of eyes, why different bodys react different ways, fair skin lady's, i tell yah *swoon*

Birds, Vikings, Zombies, demons, and zen garden, tattoos, and paintings ---BULK UPDATE---

exotic bird tattoo

 CA-CAW bird i tattooed on an awesome client named jack, super chill guy, it always reflects into the work, like, he lightens my mood when he comes in.. anyway, the anatomy of the bird was based off a real one, biut i decided to wing it when i colored it in, i knew there was going to be a bunch of lush paradise leafy goodness behind it, and plenty of blue water down below, so i wanted warmer colors, and a complementary purple, for the oranges and greens. tattooed this today

 Alyssa's black and grey viking Valkyrie tattoo

 viking Valkyrie tattoo im finally getting closer to being done with, shes choosing weather or not the downed viking soldier whos laying dead next to her lives or dies, didn't want the Valkyrie with angel wings, because angels are fucking stupid, if anyone reads my blog and wants a angel, dont get it from me, go get it from some stupid person who believes in SKY DADDY, ANYWASE /RANT it brings a believability to the Valkyrie,  oh, and breasty booby jug mc dirty pillow action, you cant tell, but they actually follow you across the room like the monilesia is rumored to do, naturally i tried to spend as much time on those warlocks as i could, the customer was amused, but she didn't understand, HOW DRASTICALLY IMPORTANT BOOBS ARE

Devil art oil painting out at night

Oil painting i hatched out.. probally a 5 hour painting session, been working on "sketching" with oils more, trying to keep it sort of loose, and fun, stop adviseing myself to the norms of what everyone wants perfection wise, i paint for fun, and i need to bring more fun into my art, because of how burnt out i feel from slaveing a ton of the last 2 years away.

Buddhist zen temple garden scene thing... had a lot of positive feedback on this tattoo, itll be tattooed in black and grey, though so, the supposed cherry blossom trees, that are rumored to be in this sketch, will look like normal trees, because, thinking, LOL

 Darker crying demon, creature, man thing, i was thinking of titleing it "BURN THEM, LIKE YOU DID THE REST" due to the sort of illuminated background, and tears of joy....(lol?) or saddness, was sort of down when i painted this, and i just look at it and feel that way, LOL.. people can be triggered by ongs bringing them back to the first time they hear them, i guess i have that with visual things too.

sorrowful slaughter ?
dreadful dreadnaught ?

well, regardless, OILS have such a luminosity, and vibrancy to them, i cant believe how hard i worked with acrylics, they defiantly taught me alot about brush strokes.. but oils...sooo...much...better....

Bryan's offensive cartoon-ish Zombie rib Tattoo

Drunk pregnant zombie with chainsaw accident undead

 ZOMBIES! yes, zombies, doing super outrageous ridiculous things, chainsawing themselves open, drunken mom zombie with sag boobs whose child is probably a zombie serial killer, already practicing his intestine noose in the decaying womb of a shitty mom, who probally honestly gave her kid FAS, what a bitch, and some random vomiting perky titted zombie in the background, possibly impaled by those spears? tattooed this on someone who is a very close friend to me.. bryan, i fucking miss the shit out of this guy, moved to Germany, haven't touched this tattoo for 3.5-4 years? i was still working at the canvASS back then... been enjoying useing richer colors in tattoos these days... oh, and for anyone who shifts though all this bullshit im writing, the top half is a week old, and healed, basically, because suran wrap overnight, hard scrubbing and bugpin needles pwn

would like a second pass on this tattoo... probably wont get that, i bet bryan will be too impatient to start something new next time i see him... been having problems with extremly impatient customers lately, FUCKING CHILL OUT PEOPLE, if im chill, give it a shot and fucking try it out.

Mass tattoo update

viking half sleeve tattoo

 viking with his Celtic scribed war axe and thunder and lightning creating abstract movement in the tattoo... 2 ravens, to signify thor? war ship mast and flag in background, and foreground inner arm the front of the ship is sort of "comeing to life" celtic dragon head thingy... super awesome client, josh G, an artist himself, i hope he succeeds in life.

phoenix bird hip tattoo

 Phoenix hip tattoo another awesome client!

coverup cherry blossom tree tattoo

 This was interesting, this girl was from France... she got a coverup of a succubus tattoo that you cant see too well hidden in the darker marked textured spot of the tree where its sort of plump, she would tip me in wine from france :D
interesting talking about a place that seems so far away and foreign. some cherry blossoms, of course.

Hungry Shark eating fish Tattoo

 shark getting some sushi from the sea, some jellys behind it doin' theyr thing unfinished.

rose and human jaw bone oil painting

the diffrences a secondary layer can make on a oil painting.. and glazes..

FULL back tattoo of SKULL and abstract biomechanical stufffff (whole progression, tons of photos and stuff you could see on how i did what i did :)

Apparently i documented the entire process because of the energy i had during it was pretty positive, matt lets me do whatever i want on him, unless he feels shitty, then we work on his arms.. but i just freehanded the tattoo on, and chipped away at it, probably a year and a half in the making, which happens with large peices, money, and how stupid my schedule is. IT should go without saying that... if a tattoo artists wants to do the tattoo, he invests himself in it, and does the best he can because it becomes a personal level of achievement. it helps when the clients not a jerk, too.... Looking to do more full LOUD back peices like this in the future, tattoos that develope and enrichen with the time i work on them, and are open to rendering like a painting. if anyone here is as open as matt, please speak up, you'll take priority over ridged clients that control me and get in the way of me doing my job.

 

Marker drawing, he literly came in and said "What do you want to do today??" i started laser on my back, because i didnt like how it fit my body, 1/3rd of my back has recieved 5-6 laser sessions to lighten it to the poinjt there i can have a n ice back tatoo. totally worth it, except, unlike matt and his american stansards, bu tattooed my full ass... as well., i mag lined this tattoo to keep it loose, and build up the darkness of those lines for later when i actually lined the tattoo, it looked super rough in its first ctages, which, was.. actually very freeing, and fun, linework right aeay can feel very STIFF, and oldschool, it leaves no room to grow, because lines are ususally so very saturated and chrisp, after reading parts of nick baxers methods, and guy atchisons (both of who i extremely look up too) i decided to try it on a more massivr scale.

 

Second session! blocking the general stuff out with a 25 mag needle (well, #8, so 33...) yeah .. lower maw/ jaw area.. obvusally.. where its blank, getting the whole idea roiched out is the first priority, and then massive ammounts of fine tuneing, and layers afterwards.

finally adding in some more detailed layers since the general bulk is mocked up, realize, this thing had alot of non direction when i started it, no refrences, all comeing out of my brain, so there was alot of developing and idea, and seeing how it mates with everything else




mmmm, tieing a back peice into thr shoulder caps of sleeves is such a artistic boner, i like a whole look, with ebverything, full fluid coverage, it makes it look mire like it actually fits :D!!!

 more loer MAW work, details and stuff, building blacks up

 my second layer of black in all the main areas, you can see these side to side, and how much of a diffrent look it makes,,, BLACK ON BLACK ON BLACK / artist intuition.

FINALLY starting to throw in linework, with some white highlights, a fuck off #12 18 round shaders my best freind for larger projects like thid guy, lovvvvr]eeeeeeeeeee it:)

fFINALLY THE FINISHED PROJECT and re blacked a ton of areas again due to him NEVER healing his back good enough