 Thank you guys for coming back in this video. I got some big announcements. So make sure to watch the whole video all the way through Really happy and I'm more than excited to share this with you guys. So This could be the beginning of a new journey. So With that being said, let's begin. How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week I'm gonna be doing a cover up on my client and what my client currently has he has a religious tattoo with a Cathedral window as a halo. He has a lot of dark areas a lot of line work and it even has a negative space cross Which makes it a little bit challenging a little bit complicated but nothing to scare me away My client is no longer happy with this tattoo. He doesn't like the execution He doesn't like the way it looks and he wants to do over on his leaf. So I'm happy to do that for him So let's get these they started So this is what we got going on. It's not okay. It's not it's not ugly It's not an ugly tattoo. How long have you had this tattoo for? It's been like a year in a couple months a year in a couple months. Oh, so this is recent Was it done at a shop or no, that was when the shops were closed. There were a lot of Artists were just tattooing from their homes. Well, some would you snitching right now, bro. You're going You snitching bro. No, so you got it done at a house. Yeah, okay Did you knew the artist? Yeah, my brother had Been going to him for a while. Oh, but he works at a shop, right? Yeah, he works at a shop He just wasn't last year because of the whole covid stuff. Oh, damn. Yeah, I mean I tattooed at home too I can't even like So this is more like a Like you know what I kind of want to do over on my do over do it right With patience not just be all rushed in. Yeah, okay. That's that's a yeah, that's a good point right there So right now I ended up printing out the stencil A pretty good size is gonna go over the ditch here Probably gonna come over here. I didn't want to go small to be honest because this is a cover-up and I need space to really Put in those details. I don't like doing a whole like, you know, marking it with a sharpie and stuff like that I just kind of eyeball it For everybody who watches my videos, you guys know that I just put on the stencil. All right, so I'm gonna base it off The chin here is gonna land right here and then The nose has to land on the cheek of the statue the reason why is because the nose is the Lightest part of the the tattoo. So I need that to stand out to make it look three-dimensional So the jaw here of the statue is gonna help me to create that three-dimensional look on the nose Okay, just go for it wrong And uh, we got pretty far There's a lot of texture. So I'm really comfortable with texture. So I'm able to move a little bit faster so I was kind of thinking about what should I Talk about in this video important topic and it is How do you know you've got the right doing a cover-up and I think that Sometimes or people who don't really specialize in cover-ups They and they're doing it for the first time or the first couple times They think that if they keep packing the same tone eventually it's gonna cover it up and that's not the case What's gonna happen is that if you keep forcing it He's just gonna scar the skin and he's gonna look so nasty when he heals. All right So the way I'm gonna I'm gonna start with my medium tone and right now. I am using I believe 30 Black and 70 white So this is the way it looks when you have the right tone and you can play I mean I the reason why I only have three tones because I like to Dip it back and forth until I get the tone that I'm looking for So right now I'm just using gray my medium my medium gray just to kind of test out How it's gonna look on skin So I'm gonna start there kind of like Um Testing testing my my tone first seeing the way it looks. I'm like, okay. That looks good. So I'm gonna keep going with that Make sure to keep in mind like the contrast and all that I'm gonna start here Give it a little A little bit of finesse So since this is very light. I'm gonna take advantage of that little corner And dip it in my lightest gray. There you go. I'm back to my medium And uh start messing around with this area By the way, I'm using a 14 round liner with a voltage of a 5.0 There you go. See that? Oh Now it's getting lighter. So I'm gonna keep going with my Uh, dip it into my lightest gray just to mess around with how bright I can get this to look Back to my medium gray Start packing it and I start creating that shape of this lip or the outside of the lip Nice And this is where it's gonna get tricky right here You see that because there's a straight line going through the face Dark and it goes from dark to light and same thing on this side. So We have to make sure that We have the same tone And we got to be precise with how dark it is first thing is first I do want to add texture and I'm gonna dip it in my solid black And I'm gonna make sure to get that line to disappear Because it's so sharp that if I put any tone through that it's gonna go right through it so Kind of mess around with the texture here Make that line disappear Distract the eye I'm gonna go straight to my lightest gray and start going in in between the texture right there So don't don't go over the lines I mean don't go over the dark areas just go right in between them So you can keep those if You start applying a specific tone and you can see The line right through it stop and and start mixing back and forth because that is not the tone The that is not the right tone. So that as soon as you start packing it in and you can still see the the tattoo on the bottom reconsider your setup because You know by forcing it you're just gonna scar the skin you're gonna damage the skin And nothing's gonna happen. So I'm gonna give you guys like a quick demonstration of how it shouldn't Look So I'm gonna go with my lightest gray This line right here So if you go in with your lightest gray You start packing it in And you see that you can still see right through it And that is because this is too light this tone that I'm using is not the right tone for this area Mix it up go a little bit darker and uh And make sure that you can't see the line Like if it if it if it takes you more than if it takes you more than two layers to try to cover that up you don't have the right tone and What's that? And then um one last thing one question one last question. What happened? Okay, anyways, stop talking fool Get to work my guy Thank you guys for coming back and watching this brand new video I've been getting a lot of the amps on my instagram from artists Using my techniques and using everything I teach on my videos And definitely makes me really happy to see that I'm helping in some way And it motivates me to keep sharing all my techniques with you guys So now I'm gonna share with you guys the big announcement So if you're a tattoo artist, I hope you learned 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 If you're a tattoo artist and you want to learn how to do cover-ups and use true grace Then come to my upcoming seminar here in phoenix, arizona It will be a two-day seminar and I will be sharing everything I know and I mean everything If this is something you're interested in send your submission to mr. Period Regis underscore seminar at yahoo.com limited spots are available. So make sure to research you see as soon as you can Thank you guys, and I cannot wait to see you. Peace Let's go