 How's everybody doing? Welcome back to my channel. My client flew in for the next two days to get his outer sleeve cover up. So with that being said, let's get this day started. Let's go! Hey, Kevin. Have a seat. Hey, man. Marcus. What do you have? Two pieces, I guess you wouldn't do that. Oh! Kind of just let him practice on me, to be honest. And it's funny, because he's actually a professional tattoo artist now, and he's actually really good at what he does, except he does traditional work. Maybe I helped him to get to where he is today. Hey, you set him up. I was so sick of looking on artists myself, and I just posted on Instagram, and I was like, send me references right now, like tattoo artists, cover artists, whatever, and like, so many people sent me artists. I checked out maybe like 20 artists, and my buddy Steven, he lives out here. He has sent me yours, and I was like, as soon as I saw your work, I saw one, I was like, that's him. That's it! I fucking sent that application out so fast, and then I was checking it every day, man, every day, and I was like, oh, please! When I sent out it again, and then I got the response, I'm like, yes! I was so excited, dude, I was like, yes! That is so dope, because I feel like, I'm pretty sure you waited a while, you know? And now we're here. That was like the best email I've got. I would be sick. Which fits so nicely, and will cover up the whole thing so nicely. The features, the expression on it, it's insane. I might be able to sneak in maybe a little bit of red in it to portray the blood in it. We have three solid options that, we have the top looking amazing, the bottom, it's only gonna complement the top, so we're gonna make it work. It's gonna work out. Yes, it's gonna work out, 100%. Today is day one, and I'm gonna be covering up Jesus with another Jesus. Sounded better in my head when I said it. It's cold out there. It's chilly, huh? Right over there. I like this weather though, you know? Because it's, I like wearing sweaters and not like feeling cold. Me too, man. I love the winter. With the heat, I hate it. I sweat in 0.3 seconds. See you. Yo, like I step outside and it's a little hot, but my back is ripping. All right, let's go to the middle of the shop. I can have space to put this on. I don't know how your mind like, man, you know what? Can't wait to see it. I look at it, I'm like, what am I looking at? Sometimes, I think the same way. Look at this guy. Damn, Daniel. Damn, Daniel. Stasty, man. All right, so that stencil is ready to go. I really like the placement. And my starting point is gonna be on the neck area because I want that beard to stand out. That beard is gonna have a whole bunch of detail. So in order for me to make the beard stand out is by making the neck have a whole bunch of contrast and make it as dark as I can make it look before. It's too dark. Here we go. You ready? Fire. The background or the contrast on the neck went pretty fast. All I'm gonna do now is start the beard. The beard is gonna be very interesting because I'm gonna be using a seven round liner with the same voltage of a 5.0. And I'm not gonna be following my reference step by step just because my reference shows a lot of hair. And to translate that onto skin is not gonna work out because with time it's gonna fade and it's not gonna look great. So I will give him a better version of the beard to create more contrast and a long lasting tattoo. I'm just going with the flow here. I've done many type of beards throughout my career. So now I'm able to kind of pick and choose what looks great for the specific face that I'm tattooing. So here I feel like a curly beard would look a lot better. Once I see where everything is then I'll figure out where to put more black, where to put less black, where I'm gonna put my highlights and things like that. I'm starting with the darkest part of the cheekbone to create my shades and keep the dimension of the cheekbone. I'm taking it very slow, starting with a medium gray. Maybe it's like a 70% medium gray. And I'm not necessarily faded out but keep packing a lighter gray to create the face structure and the features. Shape on that is crazy. The highlights on the face? Yeah. Punch in there, bro, because that's gonna look nasty. Shoo! Alrighty then, let's eat. Today's the final day and I'm gonna be covering up the forearm, which is gonna complete the outer sleeve. Dude, that looks huge. Holy shit. Easy day today. It's gonna be nice. It's gonna be nice. All right, have a seat. Oh! Right, so second day here. I'm starting off with outlining the cross. I don't wanna lose the stencil of that. I'm gonna be making that the cross red to make it stand out and make it match a little bit more with the theme. I'm really excited to do the helmet. It has a whole bunch of texture. And to finally complete the outer sleeve, it was a little tough yesterday. You were hurting a little bit? Yeah, it was hurting a little bit. We got it done, though. We got it done. But today we're gonna complete it. I probably predict we're gonna be here for like like seven hours probably. What time is your flight? Tomorrow morning. Okay. Oh, you're gonna be chilling. Yeah. Okay. To make sure that I do this cover up successfully, I want to start with my solid black first and apply my scribble technique. And do texture all over the helmet. And then after I'm done with that, I'm gonna begin to transition to my medium gray. And my last layer is gonna be my lightest gray. My lightest gray is what's gonna create the highlight on the helmet. And my solid black is what's gonna create the dimension that the helmet is curving. And I have to make sure that I keep in mind where my concepts and highlights are at because it's very easy to add too much texture to the point that the helmet is gonna get a little lost and look flat. All done? That's it. Dude. It's like on the perfect spot. That little thing. It's insane. Come here, I wanna kiss you. Ha ha ha. When I first got that email that I was accepted, I was beyond excited. Overall experience from start to finish was amazing. Everything was super easy. Kevin worked with any suggestions or came up with some of his own ideas that I loved and we went with and he made everything seamless. And it was just a great experience. He treats you well, it's very nice. His assistant Marcus, big help as well. Super nice people, good vibes, good energy. Love the whole process. The only reason I wanted to get these covered up is I mean I got these when I was young, under 18 and they were just really, really bad and I was embarrassed walking around with them on my arms. I wanted to get them covered up, get something nicer, something that I'm proud of, something that I would be proud of walk around with my shirt off, you know? I can do that now for sure.