Well last Saturday I got the sleeve started on my right arm. We did 4 hours of straight outlining with no breaks just straight tattooing. It wasn’t bad at all, I just hate when boredom sets in after a few hours. Afterward I did have a feeling of sadness knowing that this would be the last of the tattooing going on my arms. Thankfully I still have lots of other places to tattoo lol. Here’s some pics of the sleeve. It’s a 4 horsemen of the apocalypse theme which was loosely drawn and based off of the woodcut by Albrecht Durer.
Then I got back to town(Shreveport) and yesterday let my artist here start some of the shading and coloring on my sugar skulls. I think we got the hardest, well most painful one out of the way. I may have been able to sit through more but o well I’m just like a big coloring book that is getting colored in slowly week after week. The red sugar skull is what was done yesterday.
It’s coming on nicely and looks like it is going to be a complex sleeve. Are you going shade or colour?
Take Care
Matthew
Actually the ribs on the side are better than the ones in the middle imo. There was just a weird vibe in the shop today with my artist leaving for greener pastures at the end of the weekend so we called it at just one today. As for the sleeve it is going to be color since my other sleeve is color. I love awesome black and gray work but I think two fully colored sleeves would look better instead of one looking like it’s missing color when compared to my other one. It is gonna be darker than my other sleeve to try to convey less of a happy feel and more of how you would picture a scene like the apocalypse.
Personally…I’m f*cking stoked about your sleeve.
I hope you can get that woodcut feel going about it.
My dad (despite the horrible outcomes of his son’s artistic abilities…) is actually a really good artist…
He does bronze casting…paintings…you name it…
One of my favorite paintings he made is woodcut.
Love. Peace. Metallica.
Thanks dude. I almost got just a regular plain outline of it initially. Really glad that I didn’t.
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