 How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week before we even get started guys before we even get started I want you guys to give this video a like comment and share it this has to be by far one of the craziest cover ups I've ever done I got a little nervous you know this this this cover up actually got me a little nervous because how dark it was it was just across the whole entire stomach as far as this cover up I had a few concepts in mind I wanted to do a lion a samurai or or kind of like an underwater kind of theme with skulls and treasures and all these things with ships and stuff but it didn't really go with his style the last concept that I had in mind was a gas mask and as soon as I said that gas mask he said I need the gas mask at first I didn't like the idea the reason why it has it had too much open skin a lot of soft areas and not enough texture and for this tattoo what I needed was texture and this tattoo did not have it but after talking to him throughout the breakfast I was like you know what I'm doing it I'm doing it for sure I'm not scared but I was a little bit so I went home I started looking up like some gas mask that had at least a little bit of texture just enough for me to work with my name is Nicholas Porter I flew in from pure Illinois oh it was just I was young I was like 1819 I went in and I let an artist talk me into we were gonna do a huge mural it was gonna be this really cool tattoo and obviously that's not what happened so I got stuck with a tattoo that I hated and for this tattoo my needle selection is like gonna be a 27 curved mag 14 round liner and a 7 brown liner for white highlights today we're gonna be doing this project here first we're gonna split it in two different days first day we're gonna be covering up half of the stomach tomorrow we're gonna be doing the other half there is nothing that can prepare you to do a specific you can study a cover up like you cannot be prepared especially for this one like I have no idea how I'm gonna I have no idea what I'm doing but I I do have an idea what I'm doing I just don't know how to approach it you have to really practice your tones be comfortable with them the the voltage of your machine the depth of your needles you got to be a hundred percent confident and you know that whatever you pack in you know it's going straight in so it takes practice the what I'm trying to say is that you just got to be confident when you're doing a cover up because you'd never know what can happen in the process and you got to have plan B plan C ready in case something's not working do you already know what to do next you's got a eyeball it let's say so you can see most of the black is gonna be located right in the middle of the mask but this whole thing is it's black most of it with a little bit of texture so you want to separate the tones with dark and in some light background so it's not so much black and you get to separate the contrast and the highlights and then well we'll see what happens because I mean there's a lot of areas that I need highlights like right here right here and obviously the forehead of the mask so as soon as I was so as soon as I was oh I decided to start packing my solid black first just so I can compare side by side how dark the other tattoo really was because based on me looking at it it looked really dark you know I was like I don't know if black is gonna cover black you know as soon as I saw the difference between my black and and the black of the lettering that told me that I had to use a 60% black and 40% white for my mid-tone and for my lightest tone I was gonna be using 10% black and 90% white I'm not gonna be using my lightest tone too much I'm gonna be relying more on my medium tone and if I need my mid-tone to be a little bit lighter then I'm gonna dip it in my lightest tone so in this area I'm using my medium tone to erase that edge of that lettering and as you can see I'm packing in this tone without a problem it's just going in smooth the ink underneath is not really popping out so that means that I'm using the right tone with the right needle selection the right depth as you can see I'm just going in super smooth boom boom boom if you are having trouble packing in your tone you have to reconsider the needle you're using the tone that you're using and like I said before the only way to know is once you're there and that's what makes coverups complicated because you don't know what you're getting into until you're actually doing it and I wish I can tell you more so you can be prepared to do a cover-up but it's honestly complicated to really give you step-by-step how to do a cover-up because it's different every single time as soon as I got to the goggles area the eye area whatever that is the lens I realized that there was a whole bunch of lines going through the lens so I improvised and I ended up making one of the lines into a glare on the goggle and that's a huge part of doing covers you got to improvise if you see something in and you can make it into something else to distract the eye from it do it you know don't be scared to improvise just because it's not in your reference so improvise don't be scared you know but also also be confident you know I don't want you improvising but doubting yourself you know if you're going to improvise don't doubt yourself I said you want me to cover up your nipple and he said I don't care and covered up his nipple it wasn't that fun though because he was asleep this man fell asleep for like two two hours it was crazy how can you sleep through that pain your nipples getting blasted that they went better than I expected it was not stressful I was having fun and no unexpected problems so now I'm gonna go get some rest and get ready for tomorrow the second day is gonna be a lot easier because now I know what tones to use and what needle selection to have so I'm pretty sure today is gonna be easy hopefully I don't want you so for today something happened for the first time ever I blacked out a belly button I've never done it before I've always wanted to do it but I've never done it and today was the day I said yo can I black out your belly button he said I don't care so I was like let's do it I started packing it in and as I was doing it I started cringing like it was cringy I've never touched a belly button as I was doing it I could feel his pain on my belly button but this man was asleep he wasn't feeling it which that was a good thing obviously that was a really good thing I've never met a person that can set this well there's stomachs definitely a painful area especially getting the nipple and the belly button done the nickel was very very intense yeah intense super intense finally we are done with this project and I got to say I'm really satisfied with the way this turned out I feel like I pushed my limits I feel like I did not take that easy way out if I would have done the lion it has so much texture I knew I was gonna cover it up no matter what a skull texture so I'm I definitely impressed myself on this one you know just because I do a whole bunch of cover-up doesn't mean that I know how to do every single cover-up you know I don't want to feel limited I want to feel like I can do any concept and use it as a cover-up you know oh I'm words can't explain I'm happy now I feel like I can actually show my tattoos off and I'm proud like proud of the word it's dope yeah you can follow me a true tattoo it's true with two ease on Instagram game I hope you guys like this video as much as I do so please like comment and share post it on your Instagram tag me on your story share it on Facebook thank you guys for over tuning in I really appreciate it so if you are a tattoo artist I hope you learn something from this video and if you are tattoo enthusiast I hope you were entertained so thank you guys for watching us see you guys next week peace