 how's everybody doing welcome back to my channel today i'm going to be doing a cover-up and this cover-up has everything i love doing which is texture contrast a whole bunch of highlights a whole bunch of details and it's going to be an amazing day so without being said let's get this day started let's go so you got this done when 2010 i'm gonna say 2010 13 years ago yeah so you drew the ribbon i legit drew the ribbon bro i legit was like he's like what do you have in mind this yeah it's literally like because my brother has the ribbon but he has like the words like right here uh-huh because it says fighting cancers takes balls but i did it that's what brother says this one says but my brother did it and so uh i drew out a piece of paper and i told him i was like maybe you can just put it down here he literally listened let me see this what you want bro i don't even know why i didn't pay attention honestly wow okay but once once the stencil was on you didn't i i i didn't think yeah i guess it was just going with the flow yeah he was just he was just like oh is that cool and i'm like yeah that's cool bro so you just assumed that he was gonna do better yeah yeah he's gonna yeah yeah this is just my example you do what you want with it you know because you're the artist yeah okay i get it i just assume yeah i mean i get that because i do that you know like my stencils they look ugly you know but at least i know i can go in you know yeah because the client is expecting me to be creative with it we left and we went straight to our apartment with my brother because my brother got tattooed my ex got tattooed and i got tattooed oh yeah all three so you guys were in a vibe you know you guys were in a vibe you guys were hanging out yeah that's why i was like oh like i'm not even gonna pay attention like that no after i got home i think i'm like i feel like he just did what i did and he's like what do you mean i was like bro i'm the one that added the shading on those edges he's like well that's what you asked for like yeah my brother my brother's like well you did tell him you wanted that i was like i was like bro that don't mean he does that shit now we just erase this one and we'll put it somewhere else so i just packed in all the solid black here and that was my first step because i definitely wanted to see how dark i can make the chin to make it stand out there is uh my reference uh it's it doesn't have a whole bunch of contrast but i want to add contrast because it is a cover up so i gotta make sure that your attention goes to different areas of the tattoo to distract the eye from the cover up and i want to make sure that everything's even because if the contrast on the face is super dark and i don't go dark enough on the chin it's gonna it's gonna feel it's gonna it's gonna look like it's a cover up so we definitely want to continue the contrast from the beginning we got to make sure that we stay consistent from the chin all the way up to the top of the the piece so consistency is gonna be everything on this piece so what i did here i just ended up doing the eye socket with the nose i did the same thing like i did on the bottom i wanted to attack the contrast first so i can keep in mind i don't want to go too dark you know but i definitely need a lot of contrast to be able to cover up these letters here so with me having this already that's letting me know hey i'm what i'm gonna be doing is doing texture stepping back so i can kind of you know get an idea if i'm going too light or or too dark but like i said my reference is very light so what i'm doing is adding more contrast adding more contrast and more contrast because i feel like i can do better if i go with my own instincts just because this is meant to look good as a picture not as a tattoo so i'm making those changes to make sure that they extends out and it looks good on skin just got done outlining the whole entire crown just because i i don't want to be fighting the stencil by applying so many shades and so many grays and stuff like that so i didn't want to risk it you know having the stencil kind of erase on me there is a lot of lines with the ribbon that he already has here so it is definitely going to be a little bit challenging having to cover it up but what the thing that's going to help me a lot on the crown is all the shapes and all the lines that he has and it has a whole bunch of texture as well so it shouldn't be a problem but on some areas where it might be a little complicated it would be on the gem areas but my approach is going to be first applying my solid black my contrast because i want the cross and the designs of the crown to stand out so i'm going to be doing the what's inside of the crown and some of the details i'm just going to be doing the contrast first let's do it i'm not your husband nor your man only the kangaroo that when you have you heard the song of stop back back back back back back no down all all yes yeah okay i have another one for you mayonnaise yes okay i said hey yes okay la vaca move no what's what's the gato yeah what's that other uh oh dang memories but if you really translate those songs in English they sound weird bro imagine like the flying this one is crazier bro this one is even crazier that table that claps the most who made these songs who made these songs thank you so much for coming back and watching this brand new video really appreciate you it was a really fun project i had a lot of fun especially with a client like that he sits like a rock he definitely gives me a lot of creative freedom and the vibes are always great with him and so with that being said if you are 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