Tree Roots and Branches

This one is finally done! I took the original pieces from weeks ago and finished them all in a unified piece. I love working with tree branches. Somehow, the element of chaos involved in free-handing the lines makes it easier to make a more incredible design.

Update from a week later below:

Heart and Keyhole

The title on this design is the name of the client's band. "Live or Die Trying," such an awesome phrase!
Below it is the sentence, "If we fail, we fail together." With the dates of several people who are pivotal to the wearer's life.

Construction Cross

 This client works with iron (as you can see) and designed this cross made of I-beams. I only adjusted it a little bit, including perspective, shadows, and draping the flag over it, as per his request. It is 6 inches tall, and took about 2.5 hours. Maybe closer to 3.

I used a 5 liner for the lines and letters. Everything else was a 5 magnum.

Tennessee "T"

 

This is a really cool marine from Tennessee. He's got a lot of national and state pride was was fun to talk to. I was concerned with the idea of putting white in each of the white checkers that this concept called for; white is really difficult to get to stick in large areas. What I came up with was only outlining the white boxes to let is jump out still, but not risk having a bunch of it fall out. It gave the orange a cool lift from the rest of the skin.

Viking Man

This is the second time I have worked on this design. What I did this time was touch it up and add a few things to it that I didn't get done the first time. This is on the same arm as the Viking Woman shown earlier.

Biker Gang Logo

This is on my mentor's leg. He is the president of the Utah chapter of Brothers in Christ, a motorcycle group that have a blast riding their Harleys all over tarnation. Several of the members already have the design tattooed, but they were all the usual logo (as seen below). Steve wanted a unique flare.

Charlene - a tale of modesty

This guy had a tattoo of a naked woman riding a shark. His mother really, really didn't like it. To make her happy, he asked to have us put a top on her. So here we are! While I was at it, we put the woman's name above her image.

Burning Money

This is on my boss. We are going to work on filling what's left of his already tatted arm with various forms of money. This is the first of the series: burning $100 bills. So cool. To the left, you will eventually see poker chips. To the right will be gold coins. I'll tell you more later on.

The detail was time-consuming, but turned out like I wanted. 5-liner on smaller stuff, 5-shader on most ofhter areas, and a 9-mag for coloring and shadow effects.

A few small projects

These are a couple of weeks old, but I thought I'd get them posted. I missed the apostrophe on the "I'll," but that's a mistake that's easy to fix. The "mkbk" was all I did on the colorful cloudy tattoo, just FYI.