 How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week. I'm gonna be tattooing Donnie He is an amazing producer and also a musician that has worked with a lot of great artists We're gonna be doing a cover up on him He has this guitar on his right for and I gotta go ASAP so with that being said Let's get this day started. Let's go Listo Listo, let's go Ya se armuela asunto Esto preparado banodo dejame volar Y como te gusta que te llaman? Donnie. Donnie? Donnie. How long ago did you say you got this piece? Ya como 4 años. 4 años. The good thing is that it's not scarred Yeah Just a little bit on the lines, but that's normal. I was showing the guys and they thought it was a skyscraper They were like oh is that a skyscraper? No, it's a guitar When you got it done, did you feel like ah it's not how I imagined it would look like. Yes. Yes I think I think that was the whole problem with it, que nunca me lo terminé pues That's the one. This one. Perfect Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. Yeah, this is the one All right, so this is the piece that we're gonna be covering up today. It is about four to five years old There is a lot of hard lines right in the middle So we definitely gotta watch out with the texture gotta make sure that we add the right amount of texture to not make It look extremely dark across the whole entire thing Then the reason why the first time so I placed it a little too far out onto the wrist I didn't want that just because there's a really hard line here So having that line across this area It was gonna make it very difficult for me to cover it up Just because that is a super hard line and it was gonna show right through the highlights and the texture So I would rather have the actual shading across the whole entire mouth for me To be able to play around with the contrast and the background play with it as well They make it even darker than that that way it gives me leverage to bring it back to life As far as the red areas we gotta make sure that we add a little bit heavier medium Grace because red can be a very heavy color and it's gonna show through any light colors So we gotta watch out for that too. It is a very challenging cover up just because it is a whole bunch of lines down and having Shapes like that definitely can make it complicated, but with the right concept It's it's everything, you know the right concept is gonna help you out to get through it And my first approach is gonna be testing out that how dark it really is by making the background Extremely dark with some grace. I want to play around with this corner You don't want to make the whole entire solid black. So I'm gonna start with solid black here Faded out to grace here, and I want to see how how powerful this black is first. You're excited. You nervous How do you feel? Some what? Some what? I just want a gun The people who see it in shit It's dark Extremely dark Yeah, I mean the lines here like super dark, but yeah, it's a combination of everything Hey So I just added this all the black in the background And I also did the line of the mouth just to come kind of give me an idea of how dark the The tattoo that already that he already has is It is definitely a dark piece But now putting my black right next to it's letting me know that It is not as strong as I thought it was because now my my black is overpowering The black that he has so after you already like met with all this like artists and stuff like who would you want to produce or make a Or collaborate with in the future We look at you like I would like M&M like my image But You get the motive to start a production and all that and My father The show was a talk at all yet, but you have a group My other brother too, and it was crazy because me as a kid I knew that I was really good at the music The key instrument of Stokas part of the guitar He played guitar, bass and accordion The accordion I think that already comes more from the tone of the music Just because you know rhythm Yeah, it's crazy So now that we got started with the whole face now I Already got the rhythm going I already know the sequence that I'm gonna be executing the rest of the face So the sequence that I'm doing right now is basically doing my black first Then doing texture with my medium gray and Then doing my lightest gray at the end and Contrasting it with a little bit of white highlights around in the gaps that I got left to make it pop because it is a super dark tattoo So I got to make sure I include those white highlights I am not and I don't want to remind everybody that I do not use white to cover up black What I use the white for is to enhance those gaps that I have Around the open skin to make it stand out because if I was to pull white on black The black is going to overpower it So that's why you need that gray to cover up the black in order for the white to Come out and make it look brighter So right now I'm gonna start doing the nose area the bridge of the nose the cheek area here and Probably start contrasting that the eyes because I want to start getting the shape of the whole entire face And but yeah, it is it is definitely getting covered up nice and easy It was definitely challenging at the beginning getting the getting into the rhythm, but now that I got it smooth This was a really interesting piece because I feel like I definitely pushed myself even though it wasn't a huge cover up It was a very challenging one just because of all the lines Going vertical and that makes it very difficult for anyone. That's that's one thing Maybe you have a client that wanted something similar. I would highly recommend for you guys to really Have self-awareness for this kind of piece just because If you're not that experiencing cover ups You are definitely not gonna be able to make it through Because those lines are gonna show through if you don't have the right concept the right texture the right tones It has to be precise every single time you hit the skin. It has to be precise and if you are More experiencing in the cover up field I would say to really study the piece Really study it because it's gonna help you a lot to make those Spontaneous decisions as you're tattooing because it requires a lot of that So yeah, definitely have self-awareness on this one. It was have me sweating the whole day have me sweating for reals but I think Throughout the day I noticed that he had a lot of open gaps and I didn't I didn't just want to add fur You know across his whole entire forum So I told him you know what I might have you come back and I want to customize something that's gonna fit those gaps To make the whole sleeve come together But because he has a whole bunch of tattoos all over the place and those gaps are making everything look very empty And I just you know, it was just not I wasn't gonna feel right just me adding black in those gaps You know, so I'm gonna have him come back, but I hope you guys enjoy this video Thank you guys for coming back and if you're a tattoo artist I hope you learn something from this video and if you're a tattoo enthusiast, I hope you were entertained Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you guys next week. Peace