 how's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week my client flew in for the next two days and i'm gonna be doing an outer sleeve on him so with that being said let's get this thing started let's go alabama alabama how long was the flight actually it was four yeah it was around four hours ago it was pretty quick yeah it was bad oh that's good thank you oh i know i know you chose the ancestor yeah i'm assuming it's the left since it's clean what made you want to choose that concept so i always wanted to get something like that because my dad's side of the family from Mexico okay and i've always like felt kind of drawn that side of the family it's one of those concepts that i'm connected to and i love the culture so much that having to put it on someone it's like everything to me i'm about to break it down for you cool this is what i put together so the goddess on the top his name is Tlaloc and he is the god of rain the goddess underneath Tlaloc we have Wicheloposhli he is the god of war i that's what i wanted actually for real like yes that is awesome that's weird that's kind of weird that's it that's so crazy well i got the chills right now for real like i got the chills when i thought about this years ago like i was like that's who i want you know what i mean but that is all the priorities i was like oh well that's his thing and i want to get something from him and whatever but that's pretty crazy that is insane though i got the chills right now that is insane yeah that's awesome these two gods are the main gods that are located in the Aztec pyramid templo mayor is this a go yeah that's awesome i knew eventually i wanted to get something like this you know and so when it came to like now i was like okay i make a little better money like you know but then it's the struggle of like where do i go trust you know trust yeah so yeah this it definitely makes me feel way better about everything yeah excited i'm really excited for real putting together this project was honestly super fun i put a lot of significance to it everything makes sense about it i studied every part of it and uh i'm gonna i just want to show you guys the way i i kind of broke it down and it took me a while to put this together to be honest because man it i think i worked on this for close to 20 hours i got to say and uh i'm just really excited to get this done here is the whole project uh i wanted to hand draw everything uh because i i didn't want to feel limited once you start seeing a whole bunch of statues and a whole bunch of references your judgment can get a little clouded and uh almost settled and that is just my opinion for me we got dashu koal he also appears in the asset calendar there's so much significance behind the history of the shield koal this is basically the weapon of witcheloposhli uh then we have here as a little uh earpiece i ended up putting two circles and what that signifies it's a shield he is connected to the a hummingbird i ended up customizing the features of a of a hummingbird to make it look like a headdress and then i added this nice little uh design here that makes the the beak of the hummingbird but what this signifies is uh wind el viento then on the middle here of both of these astic gods or mechicas i added tonati and what this is it is basically uh the nagual word for sun so i ended up adding this as a centerpiece to kind of connect them together and on the top here we have atlalok one of my favorite gods and for him it's a it was a little bit easier to customize just because it is very straightforward this tongue split in the middle it is meant to signify that there is a snake here and there is a snake here facing each other the reason why i picked both of these gods to put them together it is because where they built the empire the mechica empire they they they made the main pyramid which which is called el templo mayor and it went through so much construction throughout the years but they always had something in common they had two little temples on the top here i'll show you might as well the major temple we have two temples on top of the pyramid this one here has the blue color to represent atlalok and on the right side we have the temple of which is the poshley which is in red so what it did here was that in this area of the temple is where the rituals were made and here they removed the heart and all that but here the bodies were removed so that they went down the stairs and down here you can see but if you can see here we have a kind of talisman that is very big that means that there is where they killed koyol shawki according to the story that kowaltlikwe is the mother of koyol shawki and which is the poshley and also had 400 children and daughters which are the stars here the problem is that when kowaltlikwe got pregnant for the last time of the god of the war which is the poshley immediately koyol shawki saw that event as something very honorable so the purpose of koyol shawki was that i'm going to kill which is the poshley but well it's a very long story the point of this story is that the time of the war arrived where koyol shawki and the 400 brothers and sisters who wanted to kill which is the poshley but which is the poshley is a nightmare but after a bloody battle which is the poshley wins his sister the decapita and opens the body from top to bottom and that's why we have this talisman here with koyol shawki down and after that the human sacrifices began taking the heart here and opening the body down it's a little more than that right but this is for you to understand a little bit of the story despite all the constructions they had these two these two parts of the pyramid they always had in common they always had atlalok and they always had which is the poshley so that's why i'm going to call this piece the major temple but before i keep talking i'm going to stop right there there is so much to the history of mechicas but i've been starting the history for the last four years and it's so much to learn and i'm i'm so passionate about it that i'm able to put together these concepts and give them themes and names and you have no idea how refreshing it is to be able to create something like this after so long of studying the the culture i'm able to put this together if anything what i'm doing is enhancing the the meaning of the each individual god and giving it more meaning and as some of you know i don't talk about this very often but as some of you know i i've learned the culture so much that now i'm studying my new journey of learning the language of nawalt and it's a little complicated but i'm putting a lot of time and effort into this because i want to further understand the culture and if i don't understand the language i won't be able to figure out the rest and that's it but this video is going to be so long man you guys wanted this you guys wanted more vlogging and i'm vlogging i see you anxiously walking bro oh yeah let's get it i see you placing back and forth i was like oh he nervous i can't sit for a long just nervous i got this one for my friend that died it was my first one and then family tree that's not done yet this kind of relates to jiu jitsu and then i was in thailand um and i lived at a muay thai kickboxing school i got a hindu tattoo or like a buddhist tattoo out when i was out there that is right a lot of them have yeah we just finished up putting on the stencil uh i got my my tray ready all i'm using today it's just solid black the reason why i'm just using solid black it is because i want to keep the richness of the statues really bright and very texturized so i have just solid black and the needle selection that i'm doing is a 14 mile liner a seven mile liner and um 13 curved mag um and lastly i don't have a reference with me the reason why i don't have a reference it is because i free-handed everything on my tablet i do i hand drew everything hand drew or hand drawn hand drew uh the whole entire project so everything's out of my memory so i'm going to be able to put the contrast in the highlights uh wherever i feel is going to look the best so i am excited to get this project started on this here i'm gonna be really gentle i don't want to overpower the i'm going here too very gentle lightly i like the way it's so bright in here so a little bit of the scribble technique here just a little bit i want to do this whole thing dark and transition from really dark to super bright right here and again the scribble technique i'm finding my rhythm now like i i know how to create the texture that i want to see on this piece so it's getting easier to navigate i don't want to make it look too dark that's gonna ruin the highlight there is a lot of texture going on so now what i got to do is go super dark in here to make this stand out and glow it's very important to continue using the scribble technique because it's going to allow the the whole piece to flow you don't want to change the style midway unless a specific area of that piece has to be different then that's totally understandable but since my goal is to make everything look like a statue i gotta continue the same rhythm of using the scribble technique i decided to switch to a nine i believe it's a nine curve mark or a 13 i'm not sure but i wanted to switch because this is an area that i needed to be solid black and uh using the liner is almost unnecessary on this area i'm just gonna leave like a fuzzy edge so i can blend it out with my liner but i definitely wanted to just real quick go at it so it can be solid uh no texture here but as you can see it was a pretty quick it's a pretty quick packing of the black so now i'm going to switch to my seven mile liner boom and now i'm gonna start blending it out just slightly not too much but just enough day one when pretty smooth i'm pretty much um finishing up today's session uh setting myself up for uh day number two i'm just excited to continue this project tomorrow and finish it up let's finish it bro i'm ready let's do it i'm glad that it doesn't look swollen it just looks solid yeah easy day today easy today's day number two and we're about to complete the outer sleeve uh uh acetic cultural project that i have here on jeremy we got really far yesterday uh i'm really surprised on how far we got we ended up going for 10 hours right about 10 hours put it to your day today so i'm gonna take it easy and relax and have fun so same thing as yesterday i'm going to be using um just pure solid black and with uh two needles today which is uh 14 round liner and a seven-round liner with the voltage of a 5.0 i want to make sure that every part of this this this uh top part of this project is photo texture at the moment what i'm doing is i'm packing in black with my uh with the mag because i feel like it's going to be faster and less irritating to the skin so what i'm doing here is uh packing it in with my nine-curve mag i'm running it out of 5.0 voltage so i can be able to take my time and really uh layer up my my tones here thank you so much for coming back and watching this brand new video i really appreciate you and i hope you guys enjoyed this new kind of video that i did vlogging style with real-time tattooing all that let me know if you guys in if you get hold on pause let me know if you guys enjoy this video and if you do i'll keep making more just like this one drop a comment let me know so with that being said if you're a tattoo artist i'll help you learn something from this video and if you're a tattoo enthusiast i hope you will entertain thank you so much for watching i'll see you guys on the next video peace