 So my fiancee just graduated from a statistician school Congrats to my beautiful fiancee. She went to school for like at least four months, and I know it could be a little intense Not doing anything else by going to school from nine to five So as soon as she graduated we said let's take oh, so I took up a whole week To celebrate her her graduation so make sure to follow her on Instagram and book your next appointment because she is amazing Thank me later, but I'm back and today is Friday the 13th And I don't know if you guys believe in Friday the 13th been in a lucky day But for me I see a more like I'm about to do a horror tattoo crazy dope project and that is the way I see it so I Was not planning on working today actually But a couple days ago. I said, you know what I want to do a crazy tattoo I haven't done a horror piece in a while. So I posted on my DM I mean, I'm sorry. I posted on my Instagram and I said whoever is interested in getting a crazy piece on Friday the 13th Hit me up and then my DM went And I got a little concern, you know, but I definitely got good advice from this guy and he Was giving me complete freedom to create something crazy. So we ended up coming up with this Concept here. Boom Look at that. Look. Oh my god. I So excited. I mean, look at the bonfire Look at that. Look at that. I mean This piece has everything I like contrast and texture So I'm excited. I mean, there's nothing else to say but to get this day started. Let's go So those who are wondering what kind of a stance a machine this is oh Thermal imager I Try to find like a where they sell it and I'll put I'll put the link in the description, but yes Sass now that we have properly Meticulously shaved his leg. I am not ready to apply the stencil three fingers sass To boom one perfect nice placement Like All right, my have you stand up and I'm gonna have you check out the placement make sure you like what you see It's I guess I like I'm gonna go ahead and start with adding my darkest tones on the outside of it rocks and everything and then at the end I'm gonna add my yellow Color and then as far as the outside like on the on the ground and the rocks on the around the bonfire I'm gonna add like a reflection to it Give it the illusion that It's glowing for this. I'm gonna be using my 14 round liner Running my voltage at 5.0 so right now I'm mixing my red and my yellow Gonna sound these edges right here Now I'm doing right now. It's kind of creating a map Out the fire. I just want to see where the flames are gonna go and I'm doing that with my orange Color or mixing my red and my yellow to create this orange color and I'm doing my map with that And I'm just dipping in my yellow so my orange is getting lighter and lighter by the time I reach the center of it's gonna be pure yellow Once you're able to follow your instincts and be able to make your own decisions as far as like what you want to do in Certain areas and are you on texture? That's when you're gonna be able basically to take your artwork to the next level because then You don't need to rely on a reference anymore now You're able to just make your own decisions and say, you know what if I do this in this area And if I do that it's gonna make my tattoo look better because this is my style and this is the way I Visualize this looking you know so You can do any concept and it could be your first time doing it And you you're gonna be confident because you know that you're gonna be able to add your own twist to it So this is what I'm doing right now I mean I've bonfires how often you get to do a bonfire I mean so I'm just having fun with them making sure that I add the right texture to it the right flow of the flame I'm gonna start on the rocks now and I'm gonna do dark orange and Then once I'm done applying this first layer right on top of that I'm gonna add a brownish color And like I said, I'm not saying that this is the right way of doing it This is like the way I see it the way. I know it's gonna work out for me and I'm going with what I feel I'm just taking you guys through my thought process of how I would execute this bonfire now Let's do the reflection on the ground I'm just gonna do if I was doing texture exactly. I will do the same exact thing. I'm just pretending. I'm doing texture Going on top of the blank areas that I left Open here negative space and right in between that And I'm afraid it out slowly The way I'm fading it out. I'm just separating the dots now to complete it I'm just gonna dip it on my brown and then my darkest gray and then right on that bottom High contrast right on the bottom right there Brown and darkest gray lastly Yellow and I'm I ended up just grabbing another 14 round liner Because I didn't want to mix whatever was in the other needle with the pure yellow because I need this to be really bright So I'm just using a new one. So I ended up doing the background and doing all the Circles and the eyes because I feel that it was like a boring It's the boring part of the tattoo. So I didn't need to explain anything So I said I'm just gonna do it and I'm just gonna record once I get to the fun part Now we got to the fun part doing the texture on the mask And I'm gonna be using a 14 round liner. I'm gonna go ahead and put the reference right here So you guys can see That the face it's pretty soft. It has texture, but in a different way. I'm gonna execute it the way I feel like it's gonna stand out Which is with the technique that I've been doing that I've been showing you guys almost in every single video I'm gonna be running my machine once again at 5.0. I'm gonna start with my solid black first Pure black right here. I gotta make sure that the contrast is there. So I'm gonna add a little bit more than Then what the reference is showing me because I need to I need this to glow Look at this technique look at this technique I want to make it look like it's like scratch and an Old you know what I mean? Give it that effect So that transition that I'm gonna make from this solid black to my gray is gonna be dramatic And this is my medium gray. I get a lot of questions regarding if I use an ink set Or if I if I mix my own grace and the answer is I mix my own grace and I mix it with star bright white and solid ink lining black Those are the two that I mix and my tones change depending on the piece that I'm doing It's never the same the same formula You know if people say what's your formula for your tattoos and it's really hard to say Because it's always changing I see the contrast I study the contrast and I determine what I'm gonna be using To make it look a little bit more smooth here in this transition I went into my medium gray and dipped it once on my solid black, and I'm going in in between here Just to give it a smoother trans Transition right there. You see that? Nice So that I'm gonna go ahead and keep doing that for the rest of the home mask YouTube what's going on today man listen So we finally completed the the whole piece. It's 743 right now. We started almost at 12 We took about an hour break. So maybe a seven hour piece. Yeah about a seven hour piece for sure What was the most painful part about the whole tattoo the most? Oh? Probably down here the ankle area Oh, yeah, nobody can really see yeah the area just because there are so many layers that were associated with it Yeah, but it looks beautiful. I mean it's worth every moment of pain. I love it You know, I'm glad you ended up taking this day me too And I was honestly when I posted that on on Instagram. I was kind of hesitated has hesitant hesitant hesitant That sounds weird. How do you say it? Yeah, you're right. Yes. It's a tent. You got it funny I Hesitant yeah, most people. Yeah, you just you just annunciating the tease a little more hesitant articulating articulated articulator hesitant Hell, yeah, it's beautiful other than that This is today's session and I'll go ahead and show you guys what it looks like now and show you guys a reveal Thank you my man. Appreciate you. I appreciate you