 How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week I'm gonna be doing a cover-up on my client and I have them for the next two days because we're gonna be doing a whole outer sleeve It's gonna be crazy. I know it's gonna be a crazy project. So with that being said, let's get these things started For me having a console says just one of the most important things because I get to know the client They get to know me we get to hang out as and right now all I know is that he wants a cover-up on his upper arm We're gonna be doing an outer sleeve two days back to back My name is Casey Gariffa, and I'm from Seattle, Washington The tattoo that I'm getting covered up was a sunset wrapped in a vine It was super old. It was my very first tattoo. I ever got I know you wanted some demons, right? And I was like demons. I was like, that's tight. I was like, okay I kind of have a little bit of a story about it. I've been an addict most of my life and I got locked up and did quite a bit of time and I got out changed my life around so kind of demons like, you know That's like my addiction and like put the demons are the addiction. Okay, kind of like just uh, you know Stuff that battle on this basis, you know, but you know, I got a seven years clean stuff now Oh man, congratulations. Wow, that's amazing I'm even more excited to do this piece because I feel like it's like one of those things that the more meaning I put into Pieces the better it gets. I'm glad man. I'm glad you you were interested in my work and trusting me to do this Amazing piece, you know, because that that even makes me even more excited to do this Listening to my client's story definitely inspired me and motivated me to put something amazing together Something original something unique that was going to connect with him on a personal level And I was just honored that he picked me to execute such an important piece The consultation was amazing, man Getting to meet everybody and go over ideas and to have him look at what I had it was uh good insight on what he had for ideas and What ideas I had and being able to bounce those off each other On day one, I'm going to be executing Buddha and the placement is going to be on the upper arm The Buddha's teachings are important regardless of our spiritual identification Like the Buddha, we're all born into the world not realizing how much suffering it contains And unable to fully comprehend that misfortune sickness and death will come to us too But the Buddha's teachings remind us of the importance of facing suffering directly We must do our best to liberate ourselves from the grip of our own desires And recognize that suffering can be viewed as part of our common connection with others spurring us to compassion and gentleness On day two, I'm going to be doing the demon Mara and that is going to represent the temptations of the world Trying to prevent him from reaching enlightenment Mara as a physical being Mara is the ruler of our world the world of suffering and desire One day Siddhartha decided to sit under a beautiful tree next to the Narayana river The young man told himself he would not leave this spot until he understood the truths of reality Mara took notice of this act and for the first time was truly threatened by the actions of a mortal Mara being known as the evil one aimed to stop the possibility of humanity escaping suffering at all costs I definitely set myself up for success with this when I'm more than excited to start this project It has so much meaning and it's just giving me so much good energy Uh coming into the shop today, I was super nervous just because I haven't gotten a tattoo for a while Getting my tattoo my old tattoo covered up, uh It's like I don't know. It's kind of bittersweet, but at the same time, uh It was definitely something that I hadn't planned originally when I got the tattoo It was just like I was young and uh, I didn't put no thought or effort into it. So I just got it. Oh All right I ended up putting everything together. I did find a better buddha. That's gonna fit better on your arm This is the only thing This is a black and gray piece Okay color I was I was trying to do a I was trying to do a lot of color on it and I was like, it doesn't look right This is a black and gray piece. It like it it portrays better as a black and gray than he does with color The little details on it I think that works perfect. Yeah, I I was cool with just black and gray. That's why I asked yesterday It's a go. I'm stoked I'm so fucking hyped The approach that I'm going to be taking with the buddha is using a 14 round shader with the voltage of a 5.0 So it can give me that texture to make it look like stone As I was tattooing I realized that there was a lot of background So I didn't just want to add black and gray across the whole entire thing So what I did is started adding a little bit of flow to it and give it some more dimension The way I'm approaching this area is using my 14 round shader with my scribble technique and slowly building up my shapes with my medium gray Uh things today have been going great, man Uh, not just kevin, but all the other staff and everybody is super chill super cool And just the whole environment of this place is awesome After a few hours of tattooing he was taking it very well But all that pain took a lot of energy out of your body and we started getting a little bit hungry So we got a whole bunch of food with the whole team. We took a break and we were just relaxing long time Oh, yeah, she's chilling. Oh, okay She's chilling. I did that big rose on the bottom and I was on it for like nine hours Like bend to the knee kind of area and she was just like wasn't fazed. What about yours? I'm chilling, bro. I'm cruising really stuff. I seen you bust up the sharpies and stuff and I was like I started getting geeked. Oh my god, this is coloring Are you gonna finish? Yeah, I have time The client sitting great. Yeah, I should be able to pain level. It hasn't been too bad The backside of my arm around the tricep areas starting to get pretty tender pretty sore Yeah, I've been just kind of trying to keep myself in that zone, you know listening to music Also, Kevin is just super good about How he works around different areas and moving around not just staying in one area for super long The way to use the scribble technique is to not have a specific pattern You have to do that Exist scribble everywhere, but also keep in mind where your contrast in your highlight is We have a very easy to execute it just because the tattoo was very weak It had been done a few years ago. So it didn't get me any troubles I kept using the same technique and I just had to pay attention to my contrast and my highlights By the end of day one was extremely successful I really loved the way it came out But towards the end he did start feeling a little bit So what I started doing is navigating and communicating with him to make sure he was okay And we took as many breaks as needed. So in order for him to make it overall today was great and like it's been a really long time that I've wanted to get this covered up and I didn't just want to let anybody do it and you know, I followed Kevin for a long time on youtube and instagram and and I just feel like he's an amazing artist and He was the perfect fit to be able to do this for me I cannot wait for day two. It's going to be insane and be able to connect the whole entire outer sleeve It's just going to look crazy Day two, I'm going in super confident. I'm just excited. I'm ready to get this project finished and ready to connect it How'd you sleep? Like a baby. You're knocked out. Once I fell asleep I remember I had the tea I even woke up because I had to turn tv back off. Yeah Oh Oh, I mean the next thing I know I was out and then I woke up at like, I'm probably like 330 maybe uh-huh tv was still on. I was like shit Today man, I'm feeling pretty good. I was uh Nervous but excited at the same time because I know today is the final day and we're gonna get everything wrapped up Most important thing about today is that I got to make sure that it flows nicely with the Buddha on the top And also I got to apply texture to make sure that it looks like a monster in this project There's two different types of textures one is for the Buddha to make it look like stone And the other type of texture for the monster to make it look like there's a whole bunch of wrinkles And to make it look moist today I will also be using a 14 round shader with the 5.0 voltage to continue with the same rhythm and flow As far as the background I'm going to be using an 11 curved mag and a 17 curved mag Just so I can alternate back and forth to make sure that I'm getting the background that I want For the eye socket what I want to do is going with my solid black I want to go as dark as I can with a little bit of my medium gray I want to make sure that that eye looks like it's glowing You want to be careful with applying so much black because you don't want to go in super black to the point Where you lose the details you want to make sure that you pay attention to the details And play with your black and your medium grays One of the things about the demon mada the monster is that there is so much texture to play with That I'm just having fun. I'm just flowing. I'm going back and forth with my medium gray my solid black And I'm adding things and taking out just because I studied the piece one day before and that allowed me to be spontaneous And add things to make it better man, it feels pretty good getting the whole thing done in two days like that It just shows you what an amazing artist kevin is to be able to do something like that Just to be able to sit down and bust it out that quick man And like you look at it and it's just insane all the detail and everything that he puts into his work Man, this project is so sick. I'm super happy that way it turned out. I had so much fun this weekend My client is such an amazing person bringing such a good energy such a positive person And I was really happy that he gave me that creative freedom to come up with something amazing and he trusted me But thank you so much for coming back and watching this new video I really appreciate you and I hope you guys like this video. Let me know in the comment section What was your favorite part? So with that being said if you're a tattoo artist, I hope you learned something from this video And if you're a tattoo enthusiast, I hope you'll be able to enter entertain Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you guys next week. Peace