 How's everybody doing? Welcome back to my channel. This week, I'm gonna be doing a two days back to back coverup. And this coverup is gonna test me. It's juicy. It is a sweaty coverup, man. So with that being said, let's get this day started. Let's go. I like the Catholic things like a Mary or a saint. Kind of like the angels too. Okay. And then I'm hoping to like animals as well. The coverup is really complicated. So I'm hoping to find the perfect concept to do this project. I got this one from like Ganga in LA. Ganga? Oh my God. One of the artists there. So I did spend money on this one. Yeah. So I don't know if I would like to preserve a little bit of it. Okay. So maybe like playing along that. It took me a while to figure out what we're gonna do in the arm area just because it was complicated. It's such a dark tattoo. It has a solid black butterfly and traditional. One of the two most complicated things to cover up. It's gonna be a very overwhelming day. I'm gonna have to breathe. Hey, it's gonna be a good day. Do you have a little bit of hair? Baby hair. Yeah, baby hairs. I'm still 21. I hope it comes in. From experience, my dude. It's over for you, my dude. I didn't grow up when I was 16 and it hasn't grown since. And you said you got this done a year ago, right? A year and a half? A year and a half. Okay. Gotta get in my stance. Mm, mm, mm, mm. What a stencil. What a beautiful stencil. You see how the face, whenever you wear short sleeves, that's what you're gonna see. So it's gonna be very, you know, static. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Man, I can feel everything. Every line, bro. I can see them in the hair. Comigo, ella se pierde. Nice. What's going through your mind right now? Placement, aligning. I think what it is, is making sure that I put the planets where they belong. Get in! De gracia, Osaraballi. Pero cuando tú vas a casa, Osarabal. Dude, if I go next to Kenny right now, and I start dancing, he's still gonna start dancing with me. Bet. Like for no reason. But I thought, all right. He was lying. Yeah. And that too. Tomorrow. Yeah. That is crazy, huh? Let's get it! How does it feel? Not bad. Not bad, huh? Not bad. The first thing I'm doing is, I'm starting with my 17-curve Mac to do the background. It is very important for me to start with the background. The reason why is because I want to figure out how bright I can make the face look, because I know in the top part of this tattoo, I'm gonna have to go really dark to be able to do the cover-up. I really like how much contrast the face has, so it opens up the possibility on how legible the face can be from afar. The key to the face of the Buddha is to not rush it, and be consistent with the transition of the shades from dark to light. Also, make sure to step back a lot to make sure you're not going too dark or not dark enough. For this part, I'm doing something a little bit different. I will be using nothing but solid black and my 11-curve Mac because I want to give it a different look than everything else. It will also heal very differently. The way I will be achieving different shades with solid black is by controlling the pressure and the speed of my hand. It will also take a lot of patience. The only thing that's not changing is my voltage, which is 5.0. Skin complexion can play a huge role in how much contrast you can add, so you're gonna have to adapt depending on the client's skin. So whatever worked on this tattoo might not work on the next project. I do want to mention that if you wanna try this technique, you gotta be really careful because if you put a little too much pressure, you're gonna end up with a black dot in the middle of a smooth area. Another thing I wanna say is that if you're gonna be running your machine at 8 or 9, this technique might not work out because the machine is gonna be moving way too fast for the hand speed that the piece is gonna turn out really dark. I'm using a 5.0 voltage so it can allow me to take my time, breathe, relax, and be able to do those smooth transitions. I don't know if I can rock neck tattoos or face tattoos actually. It has to be... crazy nice. Crazy nice? Yeah. I mean, what's something nice that I can put on my face? I'll do some wings. Do some wings on the... A little cross. A little cross on the face? Anyone that was thinking, let me lay an idea on you. Okay. Like a cheetah with green eyes with a mouth open. You can tell you to start about it right now. No, no, no, no. Mouth open, like on the neck. Eyes looking at you with a mouth open. That sounds like a cover-up to me. No, you're the one that's gonna be doing it. What the heck? I wouldn't do it, first of all. I would guide you into not doing it. For the butterfly cover-up, unfortunately, I couldn't record much because I was in my zone and very focused. That part was the hardest part of this cover-up, but luckily, the texture of the hair allowed me to finesse and be able to cover it up. The planet was very challenging. I had to make sure that I was not going too dark, but I did need it to go dark because the traditional face was not going to disappear, especially because it was extremely scarred so I had to be really careful. I'm using my 14-round liner with a voltage of a 5.0, and I'm carefully adding texture with my scribble technique. I will also be using what he already had to help me create a different depth of the planet. Heavy lines are really complicated to cover up, so what I'm doing here is I'm just adding heavy texture to be able to make those lines disappear. At this point, I realized that my black is way heavier than the hair, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the hair to my advantage and create a different texture with it. On this part of the planet, I want to make sure that it looks really bright, so I'm not going to use a lot of texture. My goal is to almost leave it empty because this area is going to help me out a lot. I added so much contrast around the planet that that area is going to make everything look even and balanced out. Too saucy. You made it. You made it! Just got done with day one of this outer sleeve cover-up. Man, at the end, he was kind of struggling, not even going live, so I had to finesse it just because I know it's tough, you know, it's tough getting the tricep tattooed, and man, like, he was tough. Honestly, he sat like a rock all day, so towards the end, I could, he was still sitting like a rock, but I knew he was hurting, so I had to, you know, kind of navigate a little bit more, communicate with him, ask him how does this feel, just to make sure that he was fine. The last thing I wanted was for him to pass out or something. Everybody was at the shop. It was such a great day. Now I'm at Chick-fil-A in line. I'm going to get some food so I can go home and eat with my wife and relax. No excuses. Let's go, son! Let's go! Go, please, I got it! Nah, that was pretty good sleep. Was it hurting? Um, only, like, when I was in the shower and, like, got a, like, rub on it, and, like, patted down, pad-dry it, but that was pretty much it. Yeah, it doesn't hurt. Oh, wait. Zimbara, zimbara. Quino te voy a negar. Oh, that's fresh. Yeah, see how it goes all the way back Oh yeah, nah, that's dope. The challenging part about today is working around a tattoo that he got done by another artist and the tattoo is very small, so I have to make sure that I connect it and make it look good with the outer sleep that I'm doing. There is a lot of lines on this castle, so the feathers of the owl is going to help me out a lot to be able to improvise and be spontaneous to help me cover up those lines. What I like about owls is that I don't have to copy-paste the image onto my client's skin because no matter how many things I take out or add, it's still going to look like an owl, so that is very important and it's going to help me out a lot to cover up this piece. Right now, I'm using my Semmerman liner with the voltage of a 5.0. On this area, I'm going to take my time to do the texture because the piece is already dark, so I want to make sure that this area looks really bright and legible. Now I'm adding my medium gray to give it a different depth and dimension. The medium gray that I'm adding in between the negative space of the black is allowing it to make it look more realistic. I step back and I noticed that I had added a little too much gray so I went back to my solid black to add more contrast. A bit, yes. It's a smaller piece, so. Yeah, towards the end you're feeling it first. When I was at the bank, they're asking me like, they're like, how long is the tattoo? I'm like, 10 hours today, 10 hours yesterday, 10 hours today. They're like, no, they knew about you too. Oh, yeah? Yeah, because they're like, oh, who are you going to? I'm like, oh, Mr. Rez. And they're like, oh, I know, Rez, Inc. They're like, yeah. To do the eyes, I'm first going to be applying my yellow. Once I'm done with my yellow, I'm going to start mixing with my red so it can give me a bright orange. Once I'm done with my orange, I'm going to start mixing with my brown so it can give me a dark shade of orange. Thank you so much for coming back and watching this brand new video. Damn, I got so many, man, I was really sick like this weekend, I was so sick and I feel like my nose still stuffed. Still, is that, is that the way to say it? Is that how you say it? Stuffed. I don't know, that doesn't sound right. The point is, I'm better now. Drop a comment, let me know what you think about this complicated coverup. So if you're a tattoo artist, I hope you learned 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 in the next video. Peace.