 how's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week my client flew in for the next two days to complete his full sleeve so with that being said let's get this day started let's go how you doing brother i'm glad you're back man i'm i'm stoked i don't know what we're gonna be doing but i know it's gonna be epic a hundred percent huh but it's a a ganache it's like the elephant face that would be amazing it kind of fits like the theme a little bit of what we were trying to do it definitely does the meaning of my sleeve is about you know like getting through all my battles and you know knocking down all those barriers and those walls right here i just saw that image right here oh man dude i am i'm so stoked this is it's exactly the same thing look like the headdress yeah just the like wrinkles going down its face and it looks like stone so yeah it's gonna go with everything you have it's pretty awesome dude that's so sick i'm just i've been looking forward to this project the last time we booked you i uh i was already looking forward to it and i even saw marcos i was like yo guess what's coming it's Monday and i said this whole experience is insane i say go down you all want to meet with you you got to breakfast or lunch whatever and it's just a whole vibe of it and i say then the next two days of tattooing and how all that goes i said it's like nothing i've ever experienced at tattoo shop and i always say that i mean i feel like when artists see like a tattoo just as a transaction rather than a relationship i think that's where it becomes a problem right because i feel like that's like you're putting you're putting something permanent on that person and why don't you take the time to get to know the person that's why i only booked limited amount of people because i want to be invested it's a core memory you know you'll carry this for the rest of your life just stay like kind of bouncing around when i came out last time you know really i didn't know i kind of have a little bit of a story about it i've been an addict most of my life and i got locked up and did quite a bit of time and i got out changed my life around so kind of the theme was like you know that's like my addiction and like put the demons are the addiction okay kind of like just that uh you know stuff that battle on his basis you know yeah but you know i got uh seven years clean stuff now oh man congratulations and now like right now i'm in the process of buying the house someone told me that like even up until like a year ago i wouldn't ever even thought that like i would be buying my own house you know i'm just glad that i i wake up yeah every day of me late and you know like i said i got a good support system around me and it's crazy it's like because it's not the people that i like grew up with it's not not really even my family but um it's having the relationships i have with people now and uh the trust that i've built with people and just yeah just being able to live life every day it's time it is time indeed while you're matching your the sweaters with the pants oh man fashionable did you do anything exciting last night no no i was tired you went straight to sleep i was i was tired no way i even took a nap you just got some food and knocked out you nap eight sleep yeah flower on the top of that inner bicep will be just enough to like complete it because there's so much detail here that you just need something simple on the top with the dark background so that way the lotus flower stands out okay it's gonna look so sick i'm like contemplating if i should incorporate the feet too it fits so that's good i definitely don't like how the face lends in the ditch of the the arm though maybe if i can just there you go with putting on this then so what i want to do is make sure that the feet lend right in the middle of the wrist lined up with the other side nice wow man oh that looks amazing for this project what i want to do is just use solid black that's it i love the way his outer sleeve healed up so i want to continue with the same style of just using nothing but solid black well i don't want is make everything look flat so i want to control my contrast and my highlights across the whole thing i'm excited it has a whole bunch of detail i have my seven malana ready to go and i'm going to be packing it in throughout the whole thing i'm gonna start here on the bottom and see how far i get today my goal is to at least get all the way up here to the forehead area of the elephants and leave the headdress for tomorrow so i can do the peony flower or lotus we still gotta figure that one out and do the headdress you ready yeah yeah now that i'm here on the feet i'm gonna start applying my contrast using the scribble technique and i want to make it as dark as i can but not solid black i want to be able to see some dimension to it so i'm gonna lightly start applying my scribble technique step back and make sure that it looks dark but not completely black to execute the feet of the statue uh i have to be very careful with how much highlight i put on it there's so much dark behind the end around it that i want to make sure that i that i make the feet very visible and legible all right so i'm starting here on the bottom and very gently um i'm doing the scribble technique i don't want to go too dark i just want to start putting down my my darkest area of the feet adding this contrast under under every toe separate them a little a little bit easier and the contrast is going to be way better i already laid down the first layer of black and i feel like i can go a little bit darker on the bottom so i'm going to darken up the bottom of the foot that way the top of the foot glows how you feeling good good my fingers feel like big ol sausages because it's all swollen or tingly getting numb ah it's not a it's not a it's not the best position you know what i mean because i got a press on your form yeah check it out man like press down i think let it turn on for a little better now it feels good look at them feet look into a chunky you're like blended in perfect it did it really blended in perfect it's a nice transition all right that's a good stretch let's get back to it on the belly area there is a lot of open space so what i want to do is add a lot of contrast just on the bottom and kind of figure out how much shading can i add throughout i don't want to make the belly look like like it's incomplete because i didn't add enough shading so i want to add just enough to make it look nice and full it's a tricky area but i'm a i'm gonna play with it i'm gonna add a little bit of you know little areas that are cracked things like that so here we have a swirl coming from behind the other piece so i'm gonna make it look like it's going behind the necklace and around here so that way give it like more of a flow give it like a it's a puzzle piece where i'm connecting it together so it's gonna be fun i'm i got to be careful with this i can't be too aggressive with it i got to take my time because he got to look soft they got to look very subtle it can be center of attention he has to be something that's in the background where you i can see when you look at it doing this part of the trunk it's uh one of those areas that i've been looking forward to since i started this piece uh the wrinkles on it the texture and the amount of contrast that he has it's just fun it's fun to uh to do and i'm i'm looking at my reference but i kind of want to do my own thing to figure out how to make it stand out more uh on the all my reference it's a little too light for me and i want to add more contrast so that's what i'm gonna be doing on this area coming in today i was pretty excited just because uh i was wanting to finally finish my arm it's pretty awesome uh i just am super stoked that uh it came together as good as it has and uh feels good to have it finally complete day one was extremely easy i had a lot of fun i love the concept and the placement and it fits so perfectly and throughout the day it was connecting to the other side so naturally and i'm just excited for day two i'm gonna complete the whole inner sleeve and it's gonna look amazing let's go son gotta find the right song to uh get to get this day started um much on that shut up let's get it that's it is it uh a little sore nothing not really it was like tight last night but okay okay let's get it we're gonna continue the inner sleeve today on day two we have the face of the elephants the halo on the top and on the gap that we have right here i'm gonna be adding a mandela that's gonna just connect everything together we're gonna finish another good time so you can go have a dinner with your friend let's get it because it is so sick instead of trying to hold my head up and shit i'm like i'm not trying i'm gonna want to get a cooking neck what is that bro it's like the lower i got the better it fell so i just kept dropping slowly i was like five that's a one service bro okay uh the last time he came uh like i did here i started doing little swirls to connect it to make it look like we planned it in advance and that everything was connected so for for this area i never really connected it because i knew i was gonna use it in the future so with that now i know how i'm gonna use it all i'm gonna do is connect it and make it look like this is behind it pretty much i'm done with the bottom piece we tested out two different kind of flowers i didn't really like the way it was looking it was giving me bad vibes so i ended up switching the design to doing a mandela how you feel dizzy yeah i'm gonna have you laid down real quick i'll get you sugar nauseous okay just dizzy that inner is done i don't gotta go back it's just the back of the tricep which is like this this right here you made it it's just five more minutes take your time if you want to throw up let me know i got you i'll throw up with you oh man don't you feel good about yourself accomplished yeah like do i got my whole top my foot tattooed and i thought that fucking hurt because that's all on bone that doesn't even come close to that holy god coming in today i was super excited you know uh knowing that it was gonna get wrapped up and i'd see the final product it'd be complete so i was super excited initially i came down here not even really knowing what i was gonna get um it's just something that you know last time when i came down and did my outer sleeve like some ideas got changed around and i just trusted kevin with what his abilities to you know the work he does this is like no other tattoo experience ever like i told you guys this when i came down and we met for breakfast like this is a whole experience it's not just walking in and getting a tattoo from somebody you know uh kevin and you guys really get to know your know know us and anybody and everybody that's out there that has thought about doing it i would recommend trying to do it like it's it's it's such a crazy experience and you know i'm a customer for life having my client come back to finish up the full sleeve is honestly one of those projects that i've been looking forward to and i'm very very satisfied that way i got nervous like on the second one very i know i'm just not i'm just not okay having my client come back to finish up the full sleeve is honestly one of those projects that i've been looking forward to and i'm very satisfied the way this project turned out and i was able to connect it to my client so that makes it so that makes it that much more meaningful so with that being said if you're a tattoo artist i hope you learned something from this video and if you're a tattoo enthusiast i hope you're entertained thank you so much for watching i'll see you guys on the next video peace