 here we go all right so today it is day one of uh pretty much getting everything organized for this seminar the setup we have a lot of space to work with uh there's a lot of the apprentices right now they are painting the shop but uh yeah we're gonna see what we need today we're gonna take everything out lay it all out on the floor make sure that i have i want to see what i have first and after that i'll figure out what i need so we can go to the store and get those things ready what i'm thinking is putting the banners as a background right here i'm not sure how or how i'm gonna hang them having the tv's in the front and maybe my logo in the back but i feel like tv's are big though so you might not see see them yeah just depending on how those tv's line up mm-hmm probably would probably put them higher we just picked up the tables we got two small tables we're gonna go back to the laundry mat and put the um tablecloth to dry while that's happening we'll go back to the shop and set up the tables see what we need and then go back to the laundry mat pick up the tablecloth and head to one more uh five and below i think it's called and uh the art supply store we just got back from getting a lot of different stuff and now i'm gonna do is test out this hdmi splitter so i supposed to have a cable going through here uh to the connects to my camera and i can uh use both tv's yes there it is yes hold on yes two tv's that's so sick ah yes yes yes yes i was so worried it was not gonna work nice that's so sick it's looking more efficient now just put on the the banners are up this wrestler i don't know where i'm gonna put it i don't know i thought about putting it like right here but looks weird today it is one day before the seminar my main focus today is to pretty much organize everything with tables and um looking over everything i'm missing so i can put it on the list so we can go get it and then rehearse i have to rehearse what i'm gonna say tomorrow and just kind of go over all the schedules from friday saturday and sunday things that i'm going to be teaching how i'm going to teach it by rehearsing what i want to do is basically um make it simple to understand explaining something so complex like how to do color how to do cover-ups can be very frustrating so my main goal is to come in simplify it for them to really understand it so they can go home and apply it what happened man no man yeah it's a little bad nothing but i it's not that bad let me take a quick little i'll show you oh my lord we just got here to um my sponsor's uh store it's higher level tattoo supply store we're picking up machines we're picking up the inks needles everything that we're going to be using and giving to the students uh we're picking it up right now so let's go inside we got the machines here all the machines then we have uh fake skins uh star bright star bright and yeah i think uh yeah we got everything let me check it off the checklist here i forgot to get a few things actually let's go ahead i thought i had it but i did it but bright bright blue dark bright blue it makes no sense look at this this is what marcos got this i didn't order the large you definitely want it look at my juice compared to his big eyes like did we take care of everything we need to do yes i think i think we have i think we won't know until we set up the tables once we set up the tables we'll be like wait a minute the machines are missing the machine let's test out the hdmi for the tablet to make sure that we can see it on boltz all right we just got the tablet hooked on you know the vibes oh just in time for that clip let's let's go this is being a long day today not healthy but this is what we need right now after a very stressful day my brother looks juicy bro look at that get eliminated pack on the grind we we we're trying to get this ready to go we are here sweating what i want to do is rehearse how i'm going to explain the the way i do color i think that's one of the hardest things because i can't just show up to that seminar and be like yeah i look at it and i suddenly know how to mix you know it's it's it's more complicated than that but my thought process uh i have to simplify it for them to understand i'm just gonna mix my primary colors here and make all the tones you can imagine with it it would get you really far instead of relying on the whole bunch of inks like let's just say you put out 50 inks in one single session and you have to rely that's okay technical difficulties but just don't see a man you know and then after that now to make it brighter now just moving on to here you just keep adding white so the dirty part of the cartridge is helping you at this point because now you're just creating values until you're rich so uh just pure white see that yeah well i feel i feel so much better now that i was able to explain color i feel so much better now uh in this situation i don't know if i would take a 50 or over 60 because the skin wouldn't allow me to do my best work at that point that's it all right it's time i uh everybody's checking in right now everybody's arrived into the shop uh they're eating their breakfast and um i'm just up here before i talk for the next three days just kind of taking it all in uh relaxing and just making sure that everything's running properly the electronics and stuff like that so um man i can't i'm not gonna lie i always get nervous but i know i everybody's gonna be learning a lot and i know i'm prepared to teach them uh the way i'm supposed to so they can understand everything that i'm gonna be showing them and stuff like that so all right well let's let's let's get it started then i've been doing covers now for i'm gonna say five years now three years i've started calling myself as a cover-up artist those first two years uh stressful because i would wake up have you guys ever woken up to a piece that you don't know if you're gonna get it done right and then you just create this like anxiety in your chest and you're like oh man i'm not ready for this but somehow i'm just gonna do it that was me for 12 months straight like i would weekly i would wake up and i'm like oh my stomach got to know kevin uh his personality pretty much matches what he shows on the internet it's it's amazing his style is totally different from what i've brought up and what i've learned so it's been good so far yeah that feels straight up just like he is on video man it's he's out there he's loud he's he's kind of like really energetic really energetic coming here in the morning talking amongst ourselves you know sharing life breaking bread my man's always taking care of you with food by the way the most important part before you even book a client the first question once you meet that person is ask them how old is the tattoo and i have actually applied the scribble technique when i do color when i do true grades when i do cover-ups all that the experience has been amazing um especially coming from a tribal aspect polynesian tribal aspect heavy line work heavy black work a lot of detail precision lines into this 5.0 volt don't rush anybody i clear my day for the consultation i pick a spot already where they know who i am already so they understand that i'm a be there for a while uh because it can take some time sometimes i'm there for three hours sometimes i'm there for four but uh i got patience i'm there to listen until we figure it out i will not leave that restaurant until we're a hundred percent committed to one concept i do a lot of cover-ups at back home but i do the way i do it right so now coming to who potentially is one of the best cover-up artists in in the in the states right now to learn his technique and and now to go back home and i'm like anxious to try something actually on the 11th i have a cover-up to do on the 11th so now i'm like thinking hell yeah i'm gonna do this i'm gonna try that i'm gonna do this and it's just i think it's i'm gonna tackle it full full force then my quality went up my prices went up and the reason why people come to me it is because i'm providing a service that you can't find in state you know if somebody comes from new york they look everybody everywhere in new york they couldn't do it so they had to find someone that specializes in no matter if they had to travel that's where it is that's when people start looking for you because you're the only person that can get it done my experience has been really great honestly like i felt like everything that i've learned uh just kind of like taking it to another level and expanding my knowledge uh it's challenging me a lot but i feel like i'm gaining a lot more from it the way the best way to look at it is uh keep that richness alive around the highlight area once you start getting closer to the highlight area that's when you switch to your pale colors so it can give you that smooth transition between bright between dark bright and pale so on day one he tells you everything that you need to know for day two and three kind of sets you out for success for those two days tomorrow i'm gonna be tattooing kyle here uh and he's gonna be getting a horror tattoo uh i'll send you guys the design right now so you guys can stencil it tonight i'm glad you got the hang of it i am so glad you got the hang of it thank you i was like i'm not leaving until everybody gets to reach that tone i swear scream come um that's so sick dude i'm so happy you made it i'm so excited i'm so happy you made it and i just want to thank you guys for coming to the seminar day one it was amazing day two and three can you be even more insane so i'm so happy that you guys made it made it all right today's day two we went out of yesterday from uh i mean technically we got here well like seven thirty we ended up leaving around nine or ten and it was a long day it was a lot of long day of talking that's why my voice sounds a little low today i i talked for four or nine hours yesterday and um and also we had a dj so it was really loud so i had to really yelled a little bit the good thing is that today is the day that we tattoo so it's my element all i gotta do is tattoo explain my process and put everything to practice everything we learned yesterday we're gonna put it to practice today so something really cool happened this week uh i was using this product for the longest time and sadly i don't know what happened to the company but they disappear and out of nowhere by the way it's probably one of the best products i've used some putting with uh as far as products that put on stencils and suddenly this week i get this package here on my toolbox i come in and i open it up and it's a care package from the company and i i immediately message the company i'm like yo like is this back on the market and apparently the company now is back in business so they're gonna be making a whole bunch of jesus juices again and i honestly i'm i'm just super happy every single line is scarred i like to start with the black because it lets me know how dark the piece actually is day two was really when we started to tattoo and um we could really see how that scribble technique was gonna take place you know um kevin kevin is super tight with his scribble technique the scribble method because i feel like scribble method creates texture and i feel like that's where tattooing is almost evolving to now and i feel like that'll kind of separate yourself from like from all the smooth shading and things like that really his scribble technique it's it's crazy how how it it looks crazy at first but it makes sense like even though he's really pale i already packed in so much black but his skin is not red you know and that is because i'm being very careful with my fourth with my 5.0 voltage it's it opens up the skin a little bit more and it heals it up lighter so that's why i always tattoo cover us with liners because i needed to stay as dark as it can let me know once you're done packing your blacks before i start doing the gray tones so we can do them together and my experience this weekend has been um what's the word inspiring yeah dude i come over here and he's uh race is sharing a lot of information that i'm just like i can't wait to go back home and and try it out and implement it on the stuff that i do you know what i'm saying like i'm kind of like anxious you know what i'm saying so it's inspirational man for sure and informative i can put this on any of these incaps and it would change the color so fast and the reason i have two rows it is because sometimes if i dip my black into this one you are already making this your darkest tone and i leave this one to make it into my brightest tone see i like it still looking a little dark for me so i'm gonna go back to my brown so right now is the easiest part because all i'm doing is mixing black and brown and i'm leaving this gap in the middle because i do see some grays in there so whatever i use on the chin area i'm going to use the same tone on the bottom back to the color theory we are tattooing uh michael jordan portrait i've never used this much color in my life i promise you the color the color portrait that stood out the most you know um it looks so easy mr rays makes it look so easy in the videos but once you're down to it it's it's a it's a challenge you know so i feel like that part so what stood out the most you know the the challenge uh everything was done with the protein amount liner uh and everything just healed up so nice there's no scars no nothing with the 5.0 i just went in just like little subtle things a lot of that things were freehand too all i had was just the simple stencil like this squares and this and i freehanded this whole entire thing or everything that's inside and bottom i just made it up as i was tattooing well guys this concludes the seminar thank you guys for coming honestly it was amazing getting to know you guys and i hope we can stay in touch i'm gonna be following back everybody if you guys have any questions reach out thank you guys so much thank you thank you oh man