And Then You Die

My friend Jan has come seeking more ink! Hoorah! He brought me an amazing design idea, which unfortunately this picture doesn't really do justice to because 1) it's a skewed image he took himself 2) it's a cell phone picture 3) it's not finished!

The stenciling, the preparation, and the inking has thus far taken about 6 hours. We have one more session left and when that happens I will definitely remember to take a good picture! Still kicking myself for having forgotten to take one at the end of this first session...

Bunny Bits and Fish Faces

Megan came back to see me! Ahhhhh!! yay :)

So this girl has got to be my favorite person in the whole wide world. Why, you ask? Because she tipped me with a home made blueberry muffin and brought me a valentines day card with a pentagram on it.

Ah-may-zing.

Anywho, we sat for about 3 hours and got about.. hmm.. 40% done.

And here are some progress pictures for you! Observe, the atypical shading used here. I drew all the little goddamn fur lines in the bunny and that soaked up most of our time but hot damn it looks good, huh? I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming out thus far and it's pretty easy to tell on here which lines are new and which ones are old. The fish are about half done and have the cutest little fish faces. If you can't tell, I love this design. I wish more people came to me with stuff like this. Nothing but fun.

Is That a Walrus?

Yes, yes it is.

About 4 hours of work thus far, including making the stencil. With the lines done we have one more session schedules next week to finish up with shading.

update: underestimated this! Didn't get to finish it in one session- search for 'animal tattoo' to see other posts about megans tattoo and the progression pictures posted.