026 [first cover] - 027

027

Date: June 22, 2009
Tattoo: Dedication | Determination | Elevation
Location: Right under arm | Chest | Left under arm

He wanted it filled in. I wanted to finish it. But he decided to save that part for another day.

026 | first cover | wip

I forgot to take a picture of it before starting. I remember just as I started covering it.

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Date: June 22, 2009
Tattoo: Custom Mario (nintendo) bomb, freehanded on skin.
Location: Right wrist

He'll return so I may feel in the smoke (lower left of feet), and make the shoes black (The red didn't show up on his skin very well ).

001 | revisited

Date: 6|12|09
Needle: 4RL

A revisit of my very first tattoo.

tattoo| 003 | first shading

Date: May 24 2009

Tattoo: The client's "Ghost Hand" design

Location: right bicep

Tools: Mickey Sharpz hybrid | 5 round liner | 7 mag shader

My overview:

My very first shading. I want to take better pics once it's healed. I think I botched the shading.
Will be focused on improving upon that.

As always, all feedback is welcome. Especially the constructive kind :)

tattoo| 001

Date: April 15 2009

Tattoo: Her boyfriend's signature

Location: Left chest plate

Tools: Mickey Sharpz hybrid | 3 round needle

My overview: Didn't go deep enough, had a nervous hand, and ...a lot about this is wrong. First tattoo or not, I still hate how it came out so horrible.

But...It was educational in that it gave me the experience of working on skin first hand.

Fun Fact: For 10 minutes before she arrived, I used my machines for the very first time period. Tried to get some practice in on fake skin.

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This journal was inspired by a journal of the same theme which I stumbled upon a year or two ago. I stupidly didn't bookmark the journal he was keeping, or if I did, It's been lost somehow. Since the first day I found it.

So wherever you are...The tattooist ,who had a degree in graphic design but followed his true heart in tattooing, thank you for the inspiration.

(P.S. If you now the who I'm talking about [I remember his journal was grey, and he had some kind of degree. In graphic design I think. And he might have worked for disney at some point too], please send me his link so I may link him properly. Plus, I want to see how his work is doing.)