 How's everybody doing? Welcome back to my channel. We're gonna start the year off by doing an insane coverup. My client waited 20 years for this and I am honored to do this for him. So with that being said, let's get this day started. I think I'm ready. How long have you been waiting to get that covered up? Man, 20, 20 years. Wow, yep. I was done with Sad Juice and then I started watching your video and I seen what you could do and I was like, man, thank you for this dude for helping me. I was hoping I'd be the only one in Tennessee. Like, I'm rocking your tattoo. You're really gonna be the only one in Tennessee. I had a guy in 8th grade. I was 13 years old. His name was Tom Thompson. Tom Thompson. If you're watching this video, I hate you for showing me how to tattoo. So anyways, I ordered a tattoo gun. I was kind of a bad kid and I was on house arrest. Then I was tattooing myself. So I actually tattooed this flower. But I was sitting there in my room and just going at it. Then everything else just kind of like, you know, just went the cheap route. Let me size it up really quick. Yeah, you have the space for it too. So that's even better. Okay, I'm gonna keep playing with it. I want to see and make sure that they look circle because of the shape of the arm. It makes the circle look like an oval so I gotta make sure that I change that. By doing that, because it turns into an oval, now I have to kind of make the stencil an oval and turn it so it compensates from that extra curve. You ready? I'm ready. Let me know if I start stinking. My wife was like, my daughter's name is Roman. We'll call her Romy for short. She was like, Romy's never gonna know the old tattoo and I was like, thank goodness. I just wanted to know the new dad. Alright, so the first stencil that I'm gonna be putting on is the bigger planet. This one is the one that's gonna kind of create that energy, that personality to this piece because this is gonna be one of the center of attention. So I'm almost thinking of putting it here because I really like the way it takes the shape of the arm and having the smaller one on this corner. Think of the dick, man. What? I've had a lot of time to think of the same. You don't got to say it. You don't got to say it, but that elbow. That's not what I wanted. That elbow looks a little suspicious there. Okay. You see what I mean? It kind of gives it that ring around that planet, which gives it more to look at. So I'm gonna start here on this bottom part of the planet. There you go. How's that? What was the last time you got tattooed? That's the question. Ten, less than ten years. Less than ten years. Still a while for sure. I feel like after three years I forget what it feels like. Is this what you remember feeling like? I feel it's less. Magical. My goal right now starting this on the bottom here is making sure that I just want to test out how powerful the ink underneath is and that will let me know how to proceed. So right now it looks pretty solid. I like how the black is looking already. So that's a good sign. But the real test is gonna come when I start applying my grays and my lighter colors. That's the real test. But as of right now, skinny taking is super nice. Super peach black. A galaxy I believe it has a lot of texture, that's why I like to use the scribble technique to give it more of a dimension to it and not just a solid black area. I want to make sure that it has transitioning to different tones. One of the boring stuff which is the black, nothing specific that I'm doing but now this is where the fun starts because I'm gonna be transitioning into a royal blue to bright blue, make it look like nebulous. It's gonna be tight. I'm overlapping my black right now so I can make sure that it blends in nicely and it doesn't look like black blue and bright blue. It's more of a smooth transition. And this is where I'm gonna start testing how the blue is gonna affect the piece that I'm covering up. What's my next step? How bright I can make this look and how to adjust it to make sure that this piece looks bright and fully covered. Here. Get rid of this tattoo. Transition into a brighter blue now. What I'm doing here is freehanding the Milky Way. At first I wasn't sure what I was gonna be doing on this corner just because it was such an awkward placement but after looking how everything was turning out I realized that the Milky Way was the best choice. Towards the end of the day I couldn't record how I did the bigger planet just because I really had to concentrate and the only thing I can do was capture the way I did the Milky Way. How'd you sleep last night? Terrible. Terrible. And then I was having to try to sleep on my back. Oh, cause you can't turn right. What side do you sleep on regularly? Right. I would like to provide a bed where you can take a nap if you want throughout the day. On the second day. On this day too. I'm gonna have you relax your arm now. Here it is. We got day two on this outer sleeve project. We got the astronaut on the lower part. It is very difficult to see anything on this lower part because of how much it's going on. So many things are going on that it's really hard to see the astronaut but it's okay. We're gonna make it happen. Today I definitely want to explain my process throughout the lower part of this outer sleeve cover up and I want to just share a little bit more of my process and how I'm gonna do it. Things that I'm changing. Things that I'm gonna be adding or taking out to adapt because it is a very messy cover up and I have to make sure that I'm 100% and let's get it. I'm finishing up packing in the black. It's the boring part of this tattoo. There's nothing really special about it. All I'm doing is putting in the solid black where it needs to be before I start putting in all the little details and yeah, so right now I'm gonna start applying my medium grays and my light grays and my highlights to start giving it shape. I have my medium gray here and what I'm gonna do is make it a little bit darker just to start fading it out towards the top just so I can add a highlight going from the top to the bottom. So that's gonna help me out a lot and shape to this part of the astronaut suit. The tattoo that he has underneath is also gonna be helping me out to apply those tones easier but there's some areas that have some line work that it's gonna get a little tricky but I just gotta be patient with it. I'm using a 14 mile liner with the voltage of a 5.0 packing in solid grays. Every day and I'm impatient, hoping one day I blow up from the basement, statement the top is so vacant, I don't need your shit that I think is amazing, waiting for my day when I'm playing, sold out shows with a thousand faces, I'm waiting to be put down it's a bullshit shit, a stupid myth you choose to live like I'm losing my mind In this world, just hunger, thirsty persons in different versions, each new update that shit worsens, why? Pull back the curtain and you'll see the different vermin we all have different burdens that all seem to cause disturbance treat me like a neighbor don't need the different flavors of your problems just to savor I need a comb to get through I'm finishing up the background here of the astronaut and once I'm done with this area I'm gonna start with the visor of the helmet and I'm just gonna freestyle it inside of it there's a lot of glare there's a lot going on inside of the astronaut visor so I'm gonna use the shapes that I already have to create some sort of glare or reflection and make it look like there's more cause I don't wanna just go black I wanna make sure that there's dimension that there's more to look at I don't wanna go to work cause my boss is a jerk and I'm not even that paid I need a change in my life cause I don't feel alive and there's nothing that makes me happy hold my beer for a minute I'm about to quit my job cashing for a ticket I'm going on a trip and I don't plan to visit I'm gonna stay there till I feel like I'm winning all and this is just the beginning I need a big change help me feel like living I need a big swing home runs I'm hitting it I'll never look back we all one thing I come move for what you gonna be and this is my game to play I gotta say this project was insanely difficult I had to literally give this man a brand new outer sleeve and I'm really excited to show you guys the results and I appreciate you guys so much for everyone who supported me in 2023 I hope you guys keep continuing to support me on 2024 and I'm gonna be putting out so many more videos and so many more projects and I can't wait to show you everything I got planned for this year so with that being said if you're a tattoo artist I hope 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 in the next video peace