 I How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week my client flowing from Texas to get a cover up done and First of all, we're gonna go ahead and meet at a restaurant so we can go over his ideas and the concept and what I'm covering up So let's get this day started Well, first of all, welcome guys. Welcome. What is that on our chata right there? No All right, let's get to it. All right, let me see what you have show it off show what he's looking Oh, it's not as bad. No, so that's good. Not as bad There's no scarring. That's good How'd you when'd you get that tattoo? I forgot as the background of that tattoo. This is I need these tails This is my daughter I got it 20 My cousin does, you know, we're here, you know, my cousin's tattoos. I'm like, but is he good? So I'm like, all right, so I go in and he's like You know right away as a red flag we're like in the living room on the couch. He's like, all right, here's my book And it was like just like a paperback There's a stencil in there just pick which one you like I'm looking through it. I'm like I want that one right there And I got it and then the next day I'm like Never since then I was like Man, so I I didn't record because I thought it we're just gonna kind of kind of like start going over the idea But he just dropped a bomb on me. He just dropped a bomb on me. Let me see So what explain what you want to get because I got so excited originally I was gonna go with like a la themed, you know representing his stuff but with some Research and some online work I'm gonna go with this Let's go. I got I just got it customized like this is this is dope I did not expect this did not expect it at all. I thought we're we're gonna do some photoshoots 100% We have to to making sure we got the right angles Customize it that way we have to so we can head over to the shop after this and start doing a quick photo shoot All right, here we go for the last bacon for the last bacon For the last bacon you ready? You ready or is it one two three shoot or like one two three one two three shoot one two three shoot Okay, okay, somebody make the count you make the condo. Oh you want to make the condo all right? You make it One two three yeah, if you guys don't eat breakfast, I'll have some sandwiches you're ready and if you're doing breakfast And you have something to eat, but we'll be ready for you tomorrow. Any questions. Let's get it. All right. Sounds good All right, you want to get that to tomorrow, let me know Oh Shit So for today's project I'm gonna be doing a cover-up and I'm covering this up which is across he got it done about 20 years ago and I get this question a lot and in the comment section asking how do you tattoo darker skin? using gray tones and Doing a cover-up. So this is perfect. My client is has dark and skin complexion So this is the concept that we have that I have Customized so what I did is we did a photo shoot yesterday with my client's wife And we ended up doing a whole bunch of different angles until I found the one that looked right to get this done I added the LA skyline and Some filigree on the face just to give it a little bit more of a style to it We're gonna go ahead and put on the stencil now So as I mentioned see how the skin tone here. It's like a reddish kind of tone reddish browns of darker skin complexion so the key to making this pop is having so much contrast and avoiding Light tones, so I'm not gonna be using any of my light grays. I'm gonna be using solid black and medium gray and possibly somewhere in between Black and medium gray and making sure that I leave a lot of skin open as much as I can because adding too much to this piece It's gonna just gonna make it look like a black Ink blop everywhere ink ink blop does that make sense? Tell them what you did Vacation A whole week Well, at least we know that I didn't be born naturally dark. I Was always this skin tone. Let me see who's talking right now. I got you. Yeah This is winter time, too I ball it I ended up doing most of the tattoo Just to kind of like block everything out And be able to kind of leave what I wanted to explain at the end So what I wanted to explain is the face How am I gonna do the face after I incorporated so much contrast in it from my point of view? The way I would approach it is that I made I made sure that everything around it had high contrast and the face was the The part of this tattoo that was gonna stand out the most So that's why I left it at the end because I wanted to make sure that the whole thing was gonna pop rather than going You know back and forth back and forth and then at the end. I'm like, oh, it's too dark. You know what I mean? So what I'm gonna do I'm gonna dip it in in my medium gray So I'm gonna go ahead and get started on the cheek on this area And start slowly so leaving a lot of space open a lot of open skin. I think It's the best thing to do when doing this kind of a cover-ups Especially using gray tones. You got to make sure that you know your values and everything looks Nice and bright Must start blending it out like this feathering it out Gotta make sure that the face is soft. I'm using my 27 curved Mac with a 5.0 Voltage I'm using my medium tone because I feel like it will give me like the Contrast that I need for the face without going too dark If any of you have experience with tattooing darker skin go ahead and drop a comment Let me know how you execute it things you avoid doing and things you Recommend doing for everybody who is wondering or who's wanting to learn how to tattoo darker skin complexion I think it's a very important topic because not a lot of people know how skin is gonna react Or how everything's gonna heal up What if you apply some yellows or some reds or some blues? How is that gonna affect it on this? How is that gonna turn out on the skin? So very important questions. I mean myself. I don't know much about color when it comes down to doing color on Darker skin complexion so I would I would definitely want to hear everybody's opinion with this gray tones I'm pretty much treating it like if I was tattooing with normal gray wash or a drop system Except I'm using true grace with this, but I'm treating it. I'm tattooing as if I was using gray wash So yeah, so this is the process that I'm gonna keep on doing throughout the whole face making sure that I'm not doing it too dark I'm gonna do the same thing with the nose and there's not much to explain just to say that When you're doing darker skin leave a lot of open skin Let that tattoo breathe that way it glows. It's bright Thank you guys for coming back and watching this video and to whoever is new to this channel Welcome to the club as an artist. We got to make sure that we educate our clients about this topic Everyone can have an amazing tattoo It's all about communication and as a client do your research choose the artist that can do the best tattoo for you Listen to your artist work together and come out with the best concept for you If something doesn't work try something else stay with the same theme There's so many options out there that it's insane so Take your time and at the end of the day It's all about the quality once the artist provides all this information and the client understands Just make a responsible decision and see how you want to move forward But the last thing I want to say is that if the artist is not working with the client Maybe it's not the right fit Vice versa go with the artist and also choose your clients wisely to make sure that you guys are in the same page Everyone's excited about that tattoo because if the artist is just trying to get money or if the client is just want to Get tattooed because it's already there Maybe we should reconsider. You know, it's just something some things to think about but thank you guys for coming back I appreciate it and if you're 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 guys for watching I'll see you guys next week. Peace