 How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week. I got a massive cover-up. It's massive. I mean, it's a mess but It's okay though because I'm not scared So if you are someone that has a mess like this on your arm do not lose hope It's possible to get it covered up. It's definitely possible It's you know I want to I want to teach as much as I can so you can have an artist in your state or country to be able to Get your cover-up done, you know, and I feel like I hope that a lot of you are learning and I'm talking. Let's get it Concentrate concentrate All right. All right. So this is what we got going on today. We got a big cover-up I got a huge cover-up project going on today. Check this out There's so much going on in this arm that god damn It's gonna be interesting God damn He doesn't feel good about this tattoo anymore for years now. So What I put together is something different that he can walk around and feel good about himself And I came up with this concept here Crazy so much texture so many elements contrast highlights. Uh, the thing that I'm going to be focusing on is Improvising so I have my reference here But I'm not going to follow it all the way through I'm I'm going to go ahead and just do my own thing Just do what's best When it comes down to certain areas and I just want to have fun with it I don't want to be so stuck in the in the reference that I'm just following it, you know step by step and Exactly like copy paste. I don't want to do that what I want to do is Depending on where I'm at I'm going to just going to use my I guess artistic abilities to just Go all out and do what I think it's going to look better So for this project, I want you guys to just let go Be creative Don't be scared Just go at it Just go at it Let's get this day started Let's get this day started Ah Question mark you let's let's do it Let's go. Let's go God damn that energy right now is low Let's do it. Let's go son. Let's go Okay So this is what I mean when I say that I'm going to be spontaneous I'm just going to go at it A lot of the things that I'm going to be doing I'm not going to be following the my actual reference because of so much going on that I might change certain things of the face the lion or the the tiger In the background Because I want to be allowed to just feel free to add and take out And change certain things of this tattoo because I want to be able to adjust to this whole thing that's going on here. So Yeah, but I ain't scared. I'm not I did end up going pretty big That way because he has a wide arm Um So I need to be able to make the stencil fit across the whole entire thing. So So I'm aiming for the nose to land here or the shoulder See where it fits better The reason why I was aiming for the nose to land on the lightest area Because I want the nose to stand out out of everything out because I'm going to be adding texture on the cheeks The background so I need the nose to stand out. That's what's going to make the face pop the nose Yes, so it ended up landing on the nose the shoulder area Where's the stencil, bro? Where is it? Kind of want to go bigger now I'm going bigger. I already put on the stencil and um So there's a lot going on too many lines The only area that's pretty much open open skin is the part in the middle here Which is the area of the shoulder and between the face of the chat right here. So yeah, let's get this day started please though I'm gonna quick little update. What we're doing right now is um adding texture So what that consists of is me doing a small little dots Uh on the face and that is going to be my first layer After I apply my first layer, I'm going to go back in with my gray tones And give it a more brighter tone on the chin and cheek So I'm just going to go at it real quick just to show you how I'm doing it And I'm going to finish the whole face by doing the same texture over and over again So it won't be so repetitive. I'm going to do it one time and show you how I'm doing it So all I'm doing is dots quick little swirls scribbles Slowly building it up And keep making it darker as I go to create that contrast on the cheek And give it that dimension and what I'm using right now. It's a 14 round liner with a voltage of 5.0 So yeah, I'm going to keep repeating the same process throughout the whole face and I'm going to start recording once I uh I start applying my my gray tones Now that I already applied all my first layer of texture with solid black ink I'm going to go back in with Applying now my medium gray and my lightest gray to start making that dimension between the cheek and the chin and For that I'm actually going to be using seven round liner. So this is my mid tone here. It's my uh medium gray tone And I'm just going to go in between those dots and start filling it in But still doing the same technique. Yeah, perfect With this you got to be a little bit more meticulous Because you don't want to touch the black dots Because that's what gives it that effect and if you add gray on top of that black it's going to make it look a little ashy So make sure to take your time and go right in between those those gaps So just like what I did earlier. I'm going to just show you how I did this area And I'm going to keep repeating the same process throughout the whole face Just like that. Now I'm moving on to my lightest gray See that now it's getting lighter. So after a long day I was not able to finish like I was not able to finish. There was so much more to do So much texture so much detail I had to call it because it was extremely Overwhelming as a whole cover up and my client was going through a lot of pain at the end Especially on the shoulder area every time I was touching this area here and in the back It was just this cruciating pain at that point. So I had to call it. He is a local client So I wasn't worried about that he was going to have to come back from the different state You know and get purchased on the ticket and stayed a couple more nights So I was happy that he was local. So yeah, I mean other than that I'm so excited for this cover up because we have a lot more to do we have this and I actually the next video He's going to be Back to do another cover up here on the forum So you guys are going to see a follow-up of what he has here a week later But thank you guys for tuning in this week to watch this new video And if you are tattoo artist, I hope you learned something from this video And if you're a tattoo enthusiast, I hope you were entertained. Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you guys next week