 this is the project this is it this is this is insane the amount of detail that this piece has patience is what I need I'm not gonna be recording myself doing the stencil just because I cannot split my attention right now I got to be a hundred percent stenciling this this took me forever oh but look at that simple just exactly what I need man it's just time-consuming but I'm really happy with the stencil got a nice setup going on all right have a seat damn I need some look anybody got some lotion I do like that for you it's not for you ocean is for me that's your knee bro so it's loud as much can you stand up like are you insane you know it's gonna be oh look at that look at the way that just matches the ropes of the ring the next time it connects it just this is meant to be together like this is meant to be together this is insane that's crazy who's that Kobe in the back with somebody no no no cuz I want to get different sports you can get soccer but I like Ronaldo you got a lot like to execute this project I started from the bottom with a nine-curve mag running my machine at a 5.0 voltage I'm using world famous red burgundy and brown to mix them together and get the uniform done I had to be really careful with not making the uniform look flat so I had to navigate and mix my tones really good to be able to separate the folds and have my conscious and highlights on the right spots I had to switch to my three-round liner to be able to do the letters and the numbers of the jersey to be able to do the background I had to mix back and forth between my grays blacks and blues the brand that I'm using for my blue is world famous as well day one what look at that sunset though where's it oh I'm a little late it looks nice though day one was a success I found my rhythm I was able to finish what I wanted to finish just so I can focus tomorrow on the face and the rim because the rim oh I know it's gonna mentally like fuck with me that's why I split it in two days because tomorrow I'm coming in with the fresh mind relax I'm rested so I can have the mentality to take my time and be patient on that room because that room is gonna test the fuck out of me so today is the day that I finish the Michael Jordan tattoo I'm not sure if I'm gonna use this video just because I gotta ask my client for permission first when my client left his appointment he got arrested and I didn't hear back in the morning like I was texting him I was calling him I was kind of getting a little concerned because I started thinking what if he got in a car accident away home what if you know something happened to him I was I was really worried and I just kept texting my you okay and finally on on a Sunday he finally reaches back out he's I hey I just got released from jail I thought the fact that he messaged me right after he got released I was like oh my god I wouldn't expect that it's probably been over maybe close to two months now and I'm just I've been waiting to finish this tattoo and I couldn't get him in our schedules we're not matching up but today's the day and I'm excited I don't know why he got arrested I didn't really ask I'm gonna ask him today see if he wants to tell us if he doesn't want to tell us that's okay I just want to finish this tattoo but I was telling me hey I just got a tattoo I need to get it done like I need to I need to wrap it up I need to get some stuff on it you know I'm dude I was bro I was so worried you have no idea I mean you saw my messages dude bro I was so worried I've never had it happens I don't know how to react I was like oh man damn it's crazy how you didn't know you had a warrant to spend the license okay but what you're here now so we go finish it and make it better this seems like a good size so look it so what I'm doing here is pretty much just cutting around the frame or not the frame but the inside of the shirt so it can give me more control over where I'm gonna place the stencil because this is gonna get complicated just restensoring this is I know there's a lot of videos out there that teach you how to do it and out of all the videos that I watch on how to resten so throughout the years I think this is the method that best works for me so what I'm gonna do is pretty much just focus on matching it up on this area you can already see that it's a nice fit so all I got to do I'm probably gonna tape it for sure so what we got here is I'm gonna go in depth on how I'm gonna do this face first thing is I'm using my seven round liner to do the little details and I'm not gonna switch needles to do the face just because I need it to be very precise and it's such a small face it's probably half an inch and what I'm gonna do is run it at 5.0 voltage I run my machine at 5.0 for every single project that I have no matter the cartridge no matter the size of the of the cartridge no matter the piece that I'm doing none of that so first thing is first I'm gonna look at my reference here and I see that a lot of my tones they are brown so I'm using solid ink brand here with the color chocolate so what I'm gonna do here is use my scribble technique to start doing the shading inside of it and it's very important for me the way I'm approaching is by using the scribble technique because it's gonna allow me to showcase that there's the pores of the face I don't want to go too aggressive on it I'm mapping it out making sure that I like the shape of where the shading is gonna go so I'm not I'm not pushing in ink a little aggressive all I'm doing is mapping it up once I like what I see that I'm gonna commit and do the heavy shading in it don't rush it take your time once I like where everything is I'm also gonna start mixing my brown and my black together to give me a darker shade I really like where how that looks so now I'm gonna commit and I'm gonna mix my brown so I'm gonna go into my brown one time on my black because the black is very powerful so it's gonna take over it's gonna overpower my brown so I went here one time in my black and I'm gonna dip it twice on my brown and I want to see what that gives me still a little dark so I'm gonna go back to my brown twice perfect and that is perfect right there so now I'm gonna commit and I'm doing the scribble technique it causes less trauma to the skin in my opinion and this is a little bit harsh here on this corner so I want to smoothly blend it out with the same tone just enough so it won't finish too harsh I wanted to have a smooth blend out this is where you start mixing back and forth I'm gonna go to my black first then hit my white I first got to get my gray tone first dipping it in my brown and going back to my white because I don't want it to be too dark either so I'm just gonna run in the corner here I'm just gonna see what it looks like and it looks a little gray for me so I'm gonna go back to my white one two three maybe one time on my brown and going back to my white once you start mixing you start realizing that some tones are are really good to use on different areas of the face like on this area here too and now that I have that I definitely want to go back on this corner here on the cheekbone make it just a little bit darker just so just so we can stand out a little bit more because the features are a little bit too flat for me so going back here being very gentle with it because it's gonna overpower super quick I'm gonna come back later and I'm gonna add my white highlights with probably mix it with a little bit of brown but I'm gonna do that at the end I want to make sure that this eye stands out a little bit more than what it looks like right now there you go that's exactly what he needed and there it is I continue to do the same sequence that I did on the face because he was giving me great results so I had to stick with this system so I can be able to match everything else to do the net of the ring was definitely time-consuming and it required a whole bunch of patience there is so much going on that it's really easy to get frustrated but it's really good to take breaks and stay in focus it was such a dope project to do I mean it was it really tested me because I had to be patient I had to be relaxed and I had to stay focused there's a whole bunch of details and a lot going on in this tattoo that it's really easy to get overwhelmed but the best thing I did throughout the whole piece is as soon as I started feeling a little bit frustrated I would get up take a quick break get a drink of water talk to my client relax and go back in with a fresh mind but I'm really happy and I'm excited to show you guys the way it turned out so here's my latest project Michael Jordan