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

hope

clairity circle.
reroute.

evolveing to evolution, tattoo, bloomington MN

Anyone who uses my blog for infomration, know that as of now (the date and time this post was created) i will be tattooing and doing art out of evolution studios, the holy mackerel is a awesome shop, i have mad respect for them, but it started to feel like not the right home for me... the shopes name and reputation attracted a soon to be 6 month wait, of which i tryed to stop by cancleing new appointments, or new clients sometime in 2013, maybe fallish? begunning of winter? ?? anywase.
basically, evolutions off the beating path more, im hopeing to bring my waiting time down, and actually start haveing a life again... all i do is work, and by work i mean, wake up at 10AM, shit, eat, shower, be on the road by 11AM, get to work by 11:40-12:00 ... dpeneding on traffic, some day it took me a whole hour when the roads were super shitty to get to work, and get back home, thats 2 hours of driveing in a day, just to go to fucking work.

if i worked everyday (and i dont) with a 30 min drive x 365 (days in a year) thats 109.5, times 2 (to get back home) thats 219 hours in a year, spent on the road.

obvusally i dont work 365 days a year, but the math is just a vauge way of me illistrateing that i wanted something closer, evolution studio is significantly closer, and i wont have to fight anyone for parking! :D YAAAYYY

the staff is awesome already, and i havent even started working there, jeff, who i used to work with, jeremy, pooki (who managaes, and has been nothing but a sincere awesome guy) and joe, whos super calm and understanding, everyones been giveing me good vibes, i met the counter lady, i dont know her name yet... and 2.. lof the other artistsd? not enough character developement for them yet, but im excited,

tonight, was a lunar eclipse, at 2:01 AM i watched the shadow of the earth, cast apone the moon, makeing it a red moon, or harvest moon?
pretty cool stuff, and what a weird night to have, when my car is literly full to the brim of stuff i have for work, GOD i have a TON of SHIT.
got to hang out with craig, a ton. missed that motherfucker, him, andrew and ben, are all my best freinds, werll, outside of the industry best freinds. always have been, im hopeing to see them more, since they live in bloomington, and ill be working there.... and hopefully takeing 3 days off. just.... tired of the work load, no releaf was in sight at the HM... all there was was.. work, work work..

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Bulk instagram tattoo update

 Creeper monster face im in progress on.. probally work on it tomarrow.. maybe not, idk.. i painted over a older paintoing this this guy, put the paint on super thick, and used walnut oil, opposed to a alka-whatever stuff, that makes it dry sometime in my lifetime.. blah, still wet parts on it, and its almost been a week, probally just stick with the fast dry stuff for now on XD...mm.. oils..

 ocean sleeve action, because everyones gettinbg them, shitty florescent light picture.. but you get the idea

 another ocean sleeve, this ones alot more illistrative, had alot of fun doing this, plus it helps that the client is a total boss.

 matts back, working away at it... slowly.. someday ill complete the fucking thing xD

 wizardy tree ent thing, on a half sleeve of a giant, this guys 6'6 XD i dont normally have to look up at people, si i made a pretty obvious mental note about it XD ha.. theres a phinoex above the tree pearching on it, and starting it on fire.. shouldnt have blurre dout the top on instagram, makes it look SHITTY

another sleeve, in progress picture, dont normally do alot of in progress pictures because most of the time its the glue holding peices like THIS togeather, ahh.. yes, the fun vulture bird zombie head part of the tattoo.