 How's everybody doing? Welcome back to my channel. This week I stepped out of my comfort zone and I did for the first time in my career my first ever bold color piece. I decided to remake this intro because when I first did it at the shop I kind of downplayed the situation and didn't make it seem like a big deal you know when in all reality it is a big deal. It is a huge deal because I tried something I'd never tried before. It was a different kind of feeling you know because I'm always doing true grace I'm always doing cover ups which is always challenging and it's always the adrenaline is different but in this situation it was a whole different feeling. It didn't really hit me until I finished the whole piece and I looked at it and I was shook. I was lost the words you know because when I finished and I looked at it I realized that I unlocked that potential that I didn't even know I had in me. I called my fiance and I told and I told her I was like you're not gonna believe what I just did and yeah and that is why I decided to remake this intro so you guys can understand how I'm feeling throughout this whole video and I can't wait to show you guys the way this tattoo turned out. So with that being said let's get this day started. Let's go. Yo as soon as I walked in here I heard you turn it off I was like oh do you drink caffeine? Uh no no I think I am caffeine bro. Yeah oh hey I knew you didn't like it. I should be the logo of Starbucks. That's what I should be. Change it. You ready for this bro? I'm so ready. You know what's f***ing crazy? What? Well I was in the bathroom you know doing my bathroom thing. Your session. Your morning meditation. Yeah that's some real s*** that early morning meditation in the bathroom like this with this whole Mario thing right. Uh huh. When I was a little kid so me and my dad were like we were homeless for a little while right. I don't know if they have them here but like in the Midwest like there's a house and then like there's a like a front door like screen porch thing. Okay. It's like where people like kick their shoes off stuff like that. Okay. And we lived in one of those for like six months and so it was so it was just us the bed a little TV at the end of the bed and they let us have like or and they gave us like a a f*** a Nintendo. And when I was a little kid I was probably like two or three years old. Uh huh. And I would wake up and I would play f***ing Mario every morning when I woke up at the end of the bed. Wow. So I was like yo and then you brought a halo right at it bro. Like that is meant to be bro. Yeah I mean the whole time you know because it's such a unique such a unique concept that it's not for everybody it's only for a group of people that are into this kind of thing you know and when I was customizing um I was like I don't I don't know if it's gonna like it. All I all I know is that I'm gonna put a hundred percent on this design if it doesn't like it it's okay you know I got backups just in case but as soon as you start the theme right I was like it's it's it's almost like a a lot of attraction you know yeah exactly because like I told you I did not come up with this concept until a few hours ago you know and and the fact that I felt so good as soon as I put it together I'm like I felt it on my bones and I was like this is it like I'm gonna kill it like I know this concept is gonna be amazing. I've been talking about core memories like all day to people it's so like when I was like holy wow this is gold content right here this is golden content you see that you don't know what's going on right now the energy is high right now oh man this is too Mexican oh no it's not allowed you know I was thinking yesterday while I was driving in my car if I had this like music playing and I pulled up like next to some Mexican cats like what they would if they would think yeah like if they fuck with it or be like thank god bro I feel that if you were to pull up listen into this music they will probably get hyped oh bro there's nothing more exciting than somebody who's listening to our kind of music yeah yeah yeah because I think there's a difference between making fun of it and actually enjoying the music you know and I feel like we can feel when somebody is genuinely listening to the music you know we're like man that's my guy right there that's my friend you're invited to the carne asada I don't matter all right here we go we're gonna put on this stencil now what a stencil bro I haven't even healed this stencil and I already like it look at that stencil it already looks very saucy quite meticulous purchase your shirt on my website that's a good point though it's a perfect time oh that is fine first thing that I'm going to be doing with this piece because it is out of my comfort zone it is not something I do on a daily basis like a lot of you know I do specializing cover-ups and true grace doing a full color piece it is something that it is like I said out of my comfort zone but all I know right now is that I can execute it all I know is that I know how to do it and I know how I'm gonna approach it once I catch my rhythm with this piece I'm just gonna take off but all I gotta do is get this piece started and kill it I'm excited you should be I'm super excited I'm super stoked let's go let's get this shit let's get it here what I'm doing is just transitioning into my lighter green just start giving it more dimension to this this area more to look at one thing I do want to talk about is knowing your limits when it comes down to stepping out of your comfort zone you know because it is something scary but also know why you're capable of me here stepping out of my comfort zone after looking at all my tattoos after studying a lot of how to apply true grace and how I do it I realize that I am capable of doing this you know I am capable of doing this kind of piece and stepping that on my comfort zone I feel confident I am nervous but in a really good way you know because I know that it's something new which is very exciting it definitely require a lot of preparation for me to get to this point and I encourage you guys to do the same if you're thinking about stepping out of your comfort zone you know in the near future so yeah I encourage you guys to step out of your comfort zone but know your limits I'm using a 14 mile liner right now needles by ambition I have a link on my description if you guys want to purchase some of these cartridges they're amazing and I'm using a 14 mile and I plan on using a 14 mile liner throughout the whole piece the only areas that I'm going to switch needles are going to be when I do the background or when I do the sharp corners on the when I get to the mustache or the teeth that's when I'm going to switch to my center round liner but for the most part I'm going to be using this 14 mile liner and like a lot of you know I I probably use this needle in every single piece that I do and that is because I'm super comfortable with it and yeah yeah there is two different kinds of music like this one is pretty like like how I did it very emotional very then you got mariachi which is like we are now I'm ready to move on up and what I'm going to do right now is start with the background here the reason why I want to start with the background is because I want to see how dark I can make the outfit look you know so I definitely want to start with the background that's gonna let me know how dark I can go but my goal is to start with my blue here to start fading it into gray and then into black that's my goal right now so let's do it I'm gonna start first with the blue that I've been using to set the mood you know what I mean start setting myself up oh la baby now I'm gonna go into my gray so you can see I just dabbed at once on in my gray that way it starts getting a little bit what's that what I'm looking for dim is that a word dim the what dim is that a word yeah dimmer yeah when you're trying to like dim the lights if you set the mood set the mood now when I'm me when I'm explaining this process I am not saying that this is the only way to do it there's plenty of ways of doing this transition but I'm doing it this way because I know it's going to benefit me so like I said this is not I'm not saying that this is the right way of doing it but this is just the way I'm doing it and I'm just dipping it in my medium gray going from my blue to my medium gray as you can see now it's almost pretty much gray at this point I can still see a little bit of blue in it but it's very minimal so at this point tonight since I see that it's a pretty much gray I'm ditching my blue now and I'm just going to dip it just on my medium gray that way it just it's just true gray at this point right now I'm using my 11 curved mac with the voltage of a 5.0 all right now that I am here now I'm going to start transitioning into my solid black now one dab on my solid black and it's still gray but there's a small little change in it and that is just good enough for me to start layering it and doing a smooth transition I dabbed it again and now you're starting to notice more changes in this tone so I just got done with the background and what we're going to do here is eat eat some food because we are getting exhausted now and I think it's a good point to stop now when I come back I'm going to be able to start doing Mario and focus on that because I already have the background so all right let's get some food my guy all right for this area I am gonna explain my process I'm gonna explain basically what I'm thinking because like I said we are stepping out of our comfort zone but I gotta find my rhythm right now I am gonna start with my darkest point on the chin that way I can find my rhythm and figure out where my contrast is so first thing is first let's get this brown in I do have two different needles one where I'm going to be using my darkest tones the other needle I'm going to be using it for my lightest tones here so this is probably my favorite my favorite pigment so I'm gonna use this as like my base to create my my shapes of the face and the wrinkles we're learning together today and I am using my 14 round liner to execute the whole face I feel like it's gonna help me a lot I'm very comfortable with this needle so I do feel like it's gonna help me to create those textures with with this pigment here I guess the way I'm approaching is just pretending that I'm using my true grace to be honest as we get closer to the chin I'm noticing that on the bottom here starts to get a little bit like a reddish tone brownish reddish I've seen a few artists that specialize in color take a whole different approach and as I was watching them I I felt like before I I wasn't brave enough to execute to try color because I was watching them and I could feel myself getting frustrated because the way they were doing it it looks so complicated and you know I I just kind of started thinking to myself like you know what maybe I should just do it my way the way I think it would help me and the way I would execute it and that's when I started thinking how would I approach this in a way where I can do a good tattoo you know and it's all about thinking how how would you do it you know that's the real question like how would you execute it so maybe this method might help some other people maybe some of you might be looking at me like no man that looks too complicated you know and that is okay you know at the end of the day it is what you feel like it will help you if you can take you know one if you can take one thing that I'm doing from here and apply it to your tattoo that's great you know but if you don't then you know at least you kind of got an idea of what it's not going to work out for you so you're getting something out of this for sure the way I'm going to be approaching the mustache and the eyebrows is by using a 3-1 liner and I'm going to be doing layers first layer is going to be with my solid black second layer is going to be with my brown third layer is going to be filling in those little gaps with my lightest brown and at the end wherever I'm going to need white highlights I'm going to apply it but not too much just enough probably a few strings of hair that's it not too much same thing I'm with eyebrows nine hours of tattooing today nine hours of torture you wouldn't say torture yeah because there's like you know there's that slight little sliver of fucking twisted fucking dude in my head that's like what's what's your other what's your other catchphrase wait don't say it let's get this day started let's get this day started almost there my dude almost there let's get this day finished let's get this day finished my dude what are we doing nothing we we're done oh 100% now 100% we're done bro give me two claps and a rick flair you made it my dude start doing the splits in there yeah oh dude I will dude this is amazing thank you again next crazy halo slash fuck mortal combat oh maybe a little sonic the hedgehog yes who else Andy who else uh video games you are classic street fight what oh yeah a whole box of needles bro you right there more than that too you owe me a whole box of needles bro what is this how about I get you two boxes of needles and uh what's your favorite soda my favorite soda I don't have one all right what's your favorite beverage beverage I'm gonna say or chat all right I'll do that and get you that shit sounds fire huh a diet horse job fire this is what nine hours and stepping out of my comfort zone looks like all right mr reyes ink dot com dot com by merch meticulous merchandise go cap that go get the hats go get the t-shirts I just want to say thank you so much guys for coming back and watching this brand new video and I hope you guys uh learn something because as I was doing it I was also learning and I was also going I was just going with the flow I was just doing what I thought was gonna help me to execute a great tattoo like I said I did watch a few people execute execute color you know I was watching all these different artists the way they do it and I was taking the things that I like the most because everybody has a different method it has a different approach on doing full color and I think it's super complicated and that's why it was so scary you know for me to uh actually do it but until that day I said you know what I when I was putting together the design my initial thought was let's just do a true grace with hint of color because that's what I'm used to something hit me and I felt it in my bones and I said let's just do it full color you know that's what I told myself let's just let's just go all in full color you I feel confident I feel comfortable and I feel like I can do it you know I told my client and I said do you trust me he said I trust you so we went for it you know and I'm just very happy for the future I'm just very happy and I feel like this is going to open up a new door for me so with that being said 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