 How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week. I'm gonna be doing a very Extremely complicated cover up. So with that being said, let's get this day started Let's go today's a good day. I'm on my way to my consultation. I am excited I'm gonna be doing a really dope concept. It's a native school I can't believe I forgot to mention that I'm doing an extremely hard cover up very intimidating And by the way, this is my morning routine I'm from a like Palm Springs area, California. Yeah, Southern California. I flew in. I flew in I didn't want to do the fire hour drive Exactly. The only concern that I had was that my client's tattoo was gonna look way darker in person Luckily, I can work with it. When was it like did your homie did it? You know what I cut well the town I came from or live It's a small town So like a tattoo shop would just pop up randomly and being 18 years old. I'm like This is one tattoos. You we didn't have Instagram. We didn't have all that So you walked in and you seem like flashed on the wall or you went through a little portfolio I didn't have really images to choose from so I'm like, oh, I want that Sure enough, you know, I mean I come out. I'm like, yeah, I didn't want that such a great consultation But nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to hear next You should be honest roads and be the completely honest I was in prison I was using my buddy's phone and we were talking about tattoos and I started to start putting YouTube like cover up tattoos Because I always wanted to get these covered up and I came across your page. Oh my god. Yeah, this is the dude I would love to fucking My leg I'm not gonna lie. I was feeling a little bit special that day I'm excited Tattoo and darker skin complexion can increase the difficulty of a cover up the concept is everything So there are some ideas that are not recommended Make sure to communicate that with your client that way both of you are on the same page And you are gonna be able to do a successful cover up and your client is gonna be happy Besides that I woke up to my puppy trying to suffocate my wife with a pillow. I was really looking forward to this cover up I had the perfect concept to do a dope cover up Oh clouds That looks magical my dude, I better see Pegasus come to that the amount of texture The bottom part of the stencil I did it by hand and the top I actually use this app called stencil lab Just because I wanted to Test it out. It doesn't look too bad. I feel like I can work with this spoiler alert. I I Hated it man. I haven't got tattooed in about eight years. So I'm a little nervous That's when you hear the two-day I come from a Native American background my mother's Native American I'm from I'm a member of the Southern California Morongo tribe, so I just wanted to go something like a Native American theme My client walking up to my booth with confidence got comfortable with the camera But this handshake right here is not just a handshake this handshake means I got you I will take care of you and give you a tattoo that will not make you feel embarrassed to show it off I will make you want to wear shorts in winter Let me get a few pictures of your tattoo souvenir Yeah, I cringe sometimes looking at yeah Pictures with a tattoo showing yeah, I mean I I do have one on that same placement, too And I don't like it, so you won't feel too lonely Look at this You didn't even know what it says. No No Here you go Placing a stencil in a cap area can get really tricky especially because of how round it is So the only thing I wanted was for the shape of the skull to not look weird What are you working on The best way that I can think of to start this cover up is by doing the background first and anything that has solid black By doing this it will let me know how bright I can really make the skull look I Didn't really record the way I did the chin area because I was very Concentrated and I needed to find the sequence on how I was going to execute the whole cover up So this area was key to help me figure it out My client got this tattoo years ago, so that ink is very weak So because of that the sequence that I'm gonna be using to successfully cover this up is by applying my solid black first And do as much texture as I can before it looks too dark and in between the texture I'm gonna be applying my medium grays and my light grays I'm taking my time to make sure that I don't compromise my contrast and my highlights because if I do the Skull is gonna look really flat Anyone's at home trying to learn how to make your plane Ready Something's wrong with my airplane right now. I don't know what it is They got to be more sharp Like this Alex catch it ready I Think we got like another hour and a half and we done for today really a good little I just want to finish Just go today. Okay focus on that. How did you feel? Great day, man. Good energy Awesome vibes good conversation watching watching mr. Reyes do what he does Doing just a skull on day one gives me room to breathe and slow down and that way on day two I can come in with the fresh mind. I won't get frustrated and I will definitely take my time on the little details of the headdress It looks fake Man, I'm in love with it, man. I'm happy. Happy. Happy. I thought I just it just It's just bright as hell Holy shit. Thank you. I need some fruit snacks. I deserve them Not even gonna lie woke up a little tired today My eyes look a little swollen But the reason I'm recording it is because yesterday I noticed that the stencil was looking a little too Complicated so I asked my client to wash it off because today. I'm gonna replace that stencil before he left I'm I was looking at that stencil and I'm like There's no way I'm doing that like I can't see anything so I came in today and I just re-stencilled it boom Look at that. Just nice and clean. Just it just what I need. Nothing else I just leave last night You know I crashed out right when I got back to the hotel Figured two hours, bro. Yeah, I woke up like with the second win I was up to like 12 12 30. I was like, dude, I need to get to bed Redoing my stencil was the best thing that I could have done using ghostline or stencil lab Do not help me in any way, but that doesn't mean that they are not good because I've seen amazing artists successfully use them That is insane he landed exactly where the other sensor was at On this area I did the scribble technique to mimic the texture of the headdress and on the middle of the texture I'm applying my medium grade to finish the bottom part of the headdress before moving on to the feathers I love the stencil. I did it easy to read and it's helping me move faster and more efficient The cartridge that I've been using to execute the headdress is a seven round liner with a voltage of a 5.0 this way I can take my time without irritating the skin Notice how I did not wipe the reason why it is because the bottom part of the tattoo is super sore from the previous day So to avoid causing my client more pain. I either dab the skin or wipe side to side or up Around the knee area Unfortunately, I couldn't record because the skin was starting to get swollen and I couldn't waste time Otherwise there was a possibility that I would have to call it a day before finishing and I was not about to send my client home with An unfinished tattoo Hope you guys enjoyed this video as much as I did honestly this cover up turned out super amazing I'm just amazed on how bright it is considering that it was done on a darker skin complexion So honestly, I'm just I'm just really happy with it. I like the outcome 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 on the next video. Peace