 How was everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week my client is flying in from Canada to get a cover up done And the person that I'm tattooing is Caleb better known as Moose I don't know if you guys remember but about six to seven years ago people started getting a forest around the wrist Tattooed with the trees going up the forum, and it became very popular about six seven years ago And if you have one of these tattoos, let me know if you still like it as much as you did when you first got it done Or if you're slowly starting to not like it anymore, and my client is no longer happy with it So we're gonna cover it up with something insane So with that being said let's get this day started. Let's go Hello the subject this professional gamer with a horrible half-sleeve in need of a miracle. Currently. I travel the world to play video games What he's living your dream? What for a long time Kevin was considering becoming a professional gamer No Not a gamer like I only play rock-a-league. That's it Currently I travel the world to play video games, and it's pretty cool except for one problem This tattoo on my right arm as for the design of the tattoo I think giving you full freedom to make something we will both be extremely happy with is it is a play. Oh You're holding it backwards Oh It's backwards I'll take it So what are you from where you coming from? Ontario, Canada Is it cold over there right now? The snow is like just Going away Time to heat up nothing like to nothing like you walk that at that airport like I didn't have That's okay. Did you bring sweaters? I brought one one hoodie, but only like sweatpants I see I see what you had and I was like he needs my help So you said you're a gamer. Yeah, so what do you play so everybody can I play Valorant right now But before I play CS go And then you go to different competitions. Yeah, that's insane. I mean it's fun. It's better than anything else I would be doing, you know, so Playing video games against. Yeah, they're best people in the World Have you ever got like so mad that you just like you stay mad for like a whole day I'm honestly like throughout my whole career. I've been really chill. Oh wow people that slam their desk and stuff But ever since I switched to this game Valorant It's starting to come out of me like this game does something else to me I've had some slams What places have you traveled to? So like a lot of places in America. I mean, that's probably not that exciting but like I've been to Australia Brazil Serbia Germany a couple times sweet in a couple times Poland a couple times What the fuck What are we doing, bro? What are we doing? Why am I tattooing? I shoot. I'm gonna take a year off Practice after this It's like do my tattoo first. All right, so we got the outer form ready. Let me just see where everything lands Yeah, should be fine 9 a.m. Tomorrow and then I was fucking feeling it bro. All right my guy. I'll see you tomorrow much Rest and drink a lot of water. I will drink a lot of water. Go to sleep right now, bro Because I want to be able to Use the face as the center of attention So whenever you see this this cover up or the tattoo the face doesn't have to be Really dark in order for me to cover anything up because the pine trees there they're dark They're really dark and me trying to cover up the pine trees with a face. I'm gonna have to Bump up the contrast and I don't want that because the face is very very bright So I'm gonna do I'm gonna apply the stencil where the facelands go right here That's your arm as much as you can. There you go. Don't think about it too much. It's kind of glanced at it and Let it happen the face landed Nice Yes I don't know the lyrics Well, you're gonna go home speak in Spanish, bro You you know how to speak two languages Oh, you know French crazy There's a good spot to explain a couple things so there's two trees here and There is a lot of open gaps I can easily just go and Start adding texture across the whole entire thing From here to here to here to here, but we also got to make sure that we keep in mind that It doesn't just look super dark So I'm using my seven round liner right now with the voltage of a 5.0 and I'm gonna be using my medium tone here my medium gray and what I'm gonna do is Make this into a glare of the helmet. It's not on my reference But I definitely need some sort of glare on the helmet to bring it back to or to make it look brighter So that's why I'm gonna make this little gap here into a glare Go in dark here so I can fade it out So medium gray Start adding textures and little details like this is what really makes a Piece come together and when it comes down to doing, you know Cover-ups you just got a there's some areas. I just got to improvise But you have to be a hundred percent sure about what you're doing And then once you start creating that glare start, you know going inside the glare and adding texture Little scribbles dots excess Because it can't be just blank, you know, you got to also continue the same pattern To make it look like one No, I'm about a tattoo with the beat bro I'm gonna be doing extra texture with this song, bro And just like that you start creating that glare Start build just build it up slowly. I Definitely for me was a It is something that I usually like to do. I can't concentrate right now bro with this song. I Can't even explain nothing I Wonder I wonder if my my other clients get nervous when I say, you know, all you got to do is just improvise see what happens You don't get nervous Those are facts bro, you had trees is it perfect a glow see it I mean I'm not keep adding more texture, but you get the idea of what I'm trying to do is adding Making this dig layer High contrast here, and then do the same thing on here So it looks even across the whole helmet and you don't have to go solid black across the whole entire thing because if you have a You know if you're doing a cover-up and everything looks black, then what's the point? You know you got to separate the contrast the highlights and make it let the tattoo breathe If it's not breathing it's not gonna be legible. Who started calling you moose It's just like the name I chose like I needed to choose a name and appropriate So it was like this is it. I don't know it just worked. I make a big play they all go the moose is loose That's dope the moose is loose That sounds something One of like my best Clips ever was like we're at a big tournament It was called the minor, but it leads up to like the major which is pretty much like the Super Bowl of Counter Shrek And if you make the major you get like a little sticker with your signature in the game that people can put on their guns And you like get money from it. So you're pretty much like a mortalized within the game And so we're playing the minor we're playing like the best team in North America the best team at the Or not the best team in North America, but the team that was favorited to win the minor and like top three North America and we're third map and There's like a 1v5 and I won it and my my team like went crazy Now I was chill like in the clip you can see I don't even move My teammates are going crazy around here. Yeah, I was just like excited for tomorrow. Let's go. How you feeling, bro? Too big as apples in here Oh my god Right where I pictured it perfect size Parties and Jesus juice like always Sass we have the rest of the forum here that we're gonna complete because he has a flight to catch tonight at What time is it right now like nine? Yeah, 925. Oh, yeah, we got a lot of time. So my goal for this then so is to make sure that The eye here Goes right through the middle. So this tree here is gonna go through the middle of The octopus here. I feel like I say you're going every time I say octopus Octopus octopus Octopus, yeah Octopus, yeah octopus Squid I feel like I can say squid better than octopus. I gotta get comfortable. Okay, here we go You were to use That sound effect on when you play video games, it will throw everybody off. Yeah, I can be just sasa sauce Some of the guns in this game like you can buy like different skins and stuff and Some of the guns make different noises. So maybe they'll add that to the game Yeah, sound by mr. It's to Have you highlighting your conscious in the right spot? Just look it. Just look at how much of a difference is gonna make from it all to this eye on this act of Octopus The square there has to be another way to say octopus, bro, like oh Wait, I think I just said it right without thinking about it octopus Ah Octopus Look at the difference that this is gonna make so we have the eye here. I did a pretty simple stencil Heavy contrast right under the eyelid happy black Because this is a cover up you gotta take advantage of those open space or those negative or blank areas of the skin happy black So you got to go in there. Don't be scared. I didn't texture at the end of that Shout out under the lid it's gonna make it happen And make a few adjustments as you're tattooing if you feel like you can move it a couple millimeters do it If it's gonna land on the spot that you wanted to land Now on my reference. It looks a little dark. I'm gonna see if I can put a picture around here to use it as a reference on My reference looks completely black, but I am gonna add Texture I'm gonna enhance the texture under the this eyelid I'm using a 14 round liner with the same voltage that I use in every tattoo in every piece in every placement It doesn't matter what I'm doing five round or a five point zero voltage So using five point zero voltage with the 14 round liner and just do textures If you're new to my channel, if you look at all my videos This technique is something that I've been using for years now And it makes me really happy to see that other artists are benefiting benefiting benefiting Something's wrong with my vocabulary today, bro It makes me happy to see the other artists I are I'm help Lord Jesus my god, I should just stick to tattooing bro Almost I'm talking now Yeah, a lot of our artists are sending me their tattoos showing me that the technique worked for them and that makes me really really happy So give it a try and send me a message on Instagram if you worked out for you But I highly recommend it. It's not an easy technique to To learn but once you learn it is definitely gonna help out It's definitely gonna elevate your game For me it's pretty much muscle memory at this point I'm able to do the textures that I need to do in one single stroke because of my my head movement muscle memory the pressure that I'm putting on the skin and The tones that I'm using I'm so comfortable with them that I'm able to just go in Single stroke and next thing you know, I have a lot of texture just like I just showed here So I'm gonna go in in here This little corner boom. So as you can see once I reach the end of the Drop shadow here under the eyelid. I'm just gonna slightly start doing little textures very Separated from each other that way. It's not as dark Now this is a little bit hard to explain for me, so I'm just gonna kind of Show what I'm doing and hopefully you can Kind of get an idea of what I'm doing because it is a little complicated to explain I wouldn't even know how to explain this part the best thing I can do to show you And I'm just using solid black right now. I'm not using any gray tones at the moment Just solid black. So now that I am looking at the whole thing. I'm like, okay now I'm able to see the shape of the eye. I really like the textures but before I continue adding more contrast I'm gonna go in into inside the eyeball and pack in those solid blacks because I want to make sure that I'm not going too dark and You know me just working on this area and not looking at the full picture What can happen is that once I'm done? I'm gonna be like damn it. I went too dark or I need more Contrast in it. So I'm just moving evenly I'm navigating that way. I Don't get lost in the contrast and highlights So I'm looking at the bigger picture the whole entire time. Wow, that was pretty smooth That was very satisfying Same thing here. Perfect. So now I'm gonna look at everything and Right now what I need is to keep adding texture here on the corner and I'm just using solid black. So I feel like I'm in a good spot. I'm gonna add a little bit more here Before I add my gray tones inside the eyeball I like to I'm what I'm doing in right now is I'm just kind of mapping it out and seeing how How it's gonna look with the great tones It's kind of like a little preview and I'm gonna look at the whole thing. All right, perfect now I'm ready to start adding the great tones texture texture I'm gonna make this the the brightest part of the eyeball right here because I definitely got it covered that up with some great tones and So I'm gonna make this the the glare I'ma go in and fade out That's a lot of explanation The whole thing having the trees finally After what like six years, right? It's been a while Honestly like to forget about when I got that so it's kind of like try to erase it from my mind But I'm honestly mind-blowing with how it came out. Like you went crazy I'm just happy. Like I didn't know what like what was possible with what I had already You know, like I don't know what's possible And like I never thought something like this would be possible. So It feels like honestly, I can't really put it into words. Like it feels like a long time coming and Like it's really it's crazy. It was my pleasure my guy. Thank you so much Get the moves going. Yeah, I'm down Hopefully soon. Yeah, I'll let you know, bro