Celestial provinces

Here is a small mock up for a larger piece I ended up doing.. Dancing souls on the last edge of the void. They wait to guide and replicate the story of life to you,if you let them. I used watered down washes of ink to create some interesting effects.

New Joker art inspired by Lee Bermejo

Last December i did a picture that comic artist Lee Bermejo created. I did it in black and white, and in a bit of my own style. Now i have done a new one of it, and with this one added much more of my own style into it; below is a close up of the Joker's face as well as his victim's. It is about 13 inches tall by 13 wide.

Tattooing - a career path?

 Just recently a friend and I decided to order a tattoo gun kit, which comes with all the necessary items and materials to tattoo with, so we pooled together some money and put our order in.

The kit came with 4  cast iron tattoo machines (guns). The cast iron makes them a bit harder to overheat, even though it makes them a little bit heavier then other lightweight machines you can acquire ; but weight preference is different with everyone, i do not mind or really notice the extra weight of the cast iron. We both have 2 each, i have one setup for doing lining, and the other is set to do shading.

 The case the kit came in is shown above; also, sitting within the case is the amp, cord and pedal, a box of metal sterilized needles, practice skin pads, black non latex gloves, and it also came with 40 1/4 OZ bottles of ink.

 The 40 bottles of ink just taken out of the package, all different colors.

 Above-my first tattoo on real skin! i used a piece of pig-skin to practice on, since it is the closest type of skin to humans. this is just the out-line of it.

This picture was taken just as i finished shading it; practicing on the pig-skin was so much better than using the fake-skin that the kit came with since the pig skin reacts just like human skin would.

More tats to come soon!