 How's everybody doing? Welcome back to my channel. This week I'm gonna be doing a cover-up on my client's forum and it's gonna be insane. I can just feel it already. So with that being said, let's get this thing started. Let's go! On my way to the consultation, I already have an idea of the approach that I want to take. I already saw what he has and I think the best thing that we can do in this situation is do a color tattoo. I just got to talk to my client to see if he's open to the idea. My name is Steve Tillman and I own Level 1 Arcade Bar. I will circulate on the Instagram page because I really like places like that and man the vibes looks fire, the food looks fire, the games look fire. I'm gonna be going there really soon with my wife as soon as we can. It's not a scar so that's good. Yeah. I think the only dark area is the mountains. Right. How long ago did you get this tattoo? Probably four or five years ago. Yeah I'm just like I don't know what's possible. Yeah there's honestly so much that we can do with this but I definitely want to know what you're you know what you're passionate about. Yeah for sure. I definitely want to link it to you as a person. As soon as me and my client started talking we clicked immediately. We started vibing. We started having a good conversation and he was really open to all my ideas but I definitely wanted to get to know him a little bit better so I can make this tattoo very personal and I wanted to make sure that the piece that he gets relates to him. So I'm a big soccer player well I was at least. Interesting. Yeah so I did that for most of my life through college. Big Manchester United fan. I'm an outdoorsman so I love to hunt and fish and stuff like that. Love to camp. On the nerdier side like I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. All of these are good options. All of them. Outdoors, nature, Harry Potter for sure. Consultation yesterday was awesome unlike anything I've experienced before just very laid back you know breakfast setting so we just got to kind of plan and take a look at what we were going to do. I'm really happy that my client was really open to the idea of color so now we're going to be doing a color piece and the theme is going to be Harry Potter. I feel really excited walking in today. Something I've wanted to do for a long time now so just looking forward to getting started. Oh that's my jam right there. Yeah. That's my jam. Oh I gotta get, look at this all right here. Oh hits it. I got chills. I got the chills. Chicken skin. Turkey pimples. You don't have any hair huh? I should not. Oh you did. Trying to make it a little easier for you. Nice. You already know. You already know. Putting on the stencil is going to be a little bit different today just because I want to try something different. Now what I usually do is I put on the whole entire stencil like any other artist but this time what I want to do different is actually split my stencils in two parts. The first thing I'm going to do is put the stencil on on the top area of the form and execute it. Then what I'm going to do is put the second stencil and get that done. I want to give this a try. It's super different but I just have this feeling that it's the best approach that I can take for this project and if everything goes the way I have it in my mind, the way I visualize it, I'm going to be doing this a lot more often. You ready? Yep. Let's get it! You're going to hear a lot of singing today. Yeah you're good man. I sing my lungs out. If I hear, if you hear Alicia Keys in here, it's me. The cartridge that I'm going to be using for the background in any areas that have solid black is going to be an 11 curved mag with the voltage of a 5.0. Now that I started doing the face I wanted to try different cartridges just so I can pick the perfect one to execute the texture that I needed. So I started using a 7 round liner, an 11 round liner and a 14 round liner and after using all three I decided to stick with my 14 round liner because he was giving me the texture that I needed and as you guys know I started using my scribble technique you know because it is the one technique that I love doing to give me that texture to make it look moist to make it look like there's wrinkles you know so I started using it. By the way thank you for everybody that messages me on Instagram telling me that the scribble technique has helped them a lot that makes me really happy. What I'm doing right now is pretty much just navigating just dipping my cartridge into different tones to see which one is going to give me the tone that I need to make it look like the reference. I needed to get a specific tone so I had to start dipping back and forth in my ink caps and figure out the sequence so I could keep getting the same tone over and over again. The most difficult part so far is just the work right in the ditch right on the front side of the elbow. It gets a little spicy in there but besides that it's been really good. It's turning out better than I expected it to you know I know Kevin does great work but just seeing it come to life has been phenomenal. It's been a great process uh the shop is cool it's a good energy around here good music so we're just kind of hanging out relaxing. I gotta say working on the top and finishing that up definitely gives me that boost and that motivation to finish the bottom so I'm I'm I think I'm gonna use this technique again. After seeing my stencil I realized that I had to use a seven mile liner for the whole face so that's what I started using. As far as the color that I'm using right here it is turquoise from radiant honestly I'm about to just buy a whole set from radiant because man the colors are so bright I'm gonna send them at the end because I gotta let them know how great their ink is. My experience from start to finish with Kevin has been great like I said from the consultation I knew right then that it was just a completely different experience than I'd ever had with an artist before just much more grounded and a lot of interest in what he was doing take the opportunity to work with Kevin not only does his work speak for itself but just how he works with you as an artist was really cool it was refreshing it was nice to to be a part of. Man it was such an amazing day I really enjoyed every part of it the concept was awesome my client was awesome great conversation good vibes good energy I'm really happy the way it turned out it has a whole bunch of texture a whole bunch of contrast and I just love the way it fits the placement but thank you guys so much for coming back and watching this brand new video I really appreciate you 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 so much for watching I'll see you guys next week peace