 How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel? We have a crazy project this week, so let's get into it Want to welcome you to Arizona? You want to tell everybody where you're from I live in Germany right now? And you travel 15 hours bro, and you're gonna take your daughter to Disneyland this weekend That's amazing for a whole week for a whole week. Yeah, I thought you were just going over a little bit we flying we flying to Florida landing and then we're going to Universe Studios Damn So tell me a little bit about your tattoo. What do you have? We're doing a cover-up. Yeah, I do a cover-up I got this one. I was like 16 16. Yeah, it's terrible work. I mean, yeah, I can I can feel every line, bro Yeah, so they scored you Something I probably will wear a tank top. I don't wear tank tops I need to hear the story. How'd you get that tattoo so who convinced you? I was like younger. I was like religious Come through What was the what was the well, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a shop, right? So you got it at 16 you are 29 now and he's still solid That healed up perfect And then I got you know, I got people in the comments saying oh, how do you know your tattoos are gonna heal good in a couple years I'm like, man, you got people here tattooing in a garage and that healed up perfect and it's been 11 years and that is dark So I know in the email you mentioned that you wanted to get Mexican team something so That opens up so many doors because we got the Aztec culture, you know the 1500 or the 1400 then you got Independence Day all the heroes from the 18 1810 then you got the the revolution in 1910 You got all these heroes. So I was thinking more toward like the Aztec culture. I said culture. Perfect. I see a lot of your work Yeah, thank you so much. Okay, then other question that I have is Do you obviously you can relate The meanings of the statues and all that with your life Is there's like a specific event in your life or a specific thing that you wanted to represent? so I'm so good That's been hard, but I've been so much just like fighting in like just okay perfect All right Oh Pushing yeah, it's always there's always a constant push So as of now, let's just start like researching some stuff and start customizing And hopefully to bring our food So I want to focus on the forum that way that's the first thing that we're gonna see so this is what I feel like it Would work the best you got Lalo the meaning of Lalo. He's the god of rain and agriculture So what he does is that thanks to him the tribes they were able to eat and drink water He is the a really fundamental god to The tribes back in the days a lot of these things can relate to you as a person You know what I mean because the god Lalo without him There is nothing so I feel like in some way You to your family you're that rock You know, I mean you're a provider to your family So in that way I feel like Lalo can relate to you a lot Because everybody was dependent on him they would they used to pray to this god So that way that was rain, you know, I mean, and if there's no rain There's no food or water and the whole tribe was gonna die So there were in some way you were the one who took that step to feed your own family You know, I mean and then on top of that Relating to your kid same thing. So it is the best Damn, I got I got good ones wrong. I can't I got good ones wrong Like with my family I got Yeah Is this a go For today's project I'm going to be focusing on two things First thing is going to be how I would execute the lips on this tattoo And the second part that I'm going to focus on is how to do this part of the statue Which is making it look like it's chipping away. How would you say like the statue? You know how it's like Very grainy grainy There you go grainy How to make it look grainy looks like it's coming apart So I'm going to stop the video to go in depth about how I am going to execute the lips and this part of the statue I'm more than excited to do this tattoo because it's all meaningful and I I loved the composition of the whole thing. So let's get this day started And from the stencil here Your shake was hella firm bro when you first came in This fool was like How you doing man? Good morning You want me to tattoo today? I almost took off my head So perfect Love it Before I go on with Tattooing the whole face Like I mentioned earlier, I'm going to go in depth in this area, which is the lips I want to go in depth about how I would execute it. What I'm going to be using is my seven round liner With a voltage of uh 5.0 And I'm going to stick out my needle Just a little it's a little bit out. You know what I mean? I don't know if you can see it right there Damn, I can't give you the exact millimeters because I just go based on feeling As soon as I start tattooing I feel the vibration and I and I feel the way the ink is going in and that's what lets me know that I'm Hacking it in that way. I want to so it's all about the feeling in your machine So I'm going to dip it in my solid black first and pretty much just gonna Do a little bit of a guideline here Solid black. I'm going to start with creating this Uh wrinkles In the bottom lip the reason that I'm starting with solid black is because That's that my darkest shade that I'm going to be using since everything else is pretty pretty much gray So I have to make sure that I apply first my darkest area So that will let me know how dark I can go with my grays First layer done then Now I'm going to dip it in in my medium tone, which is um 60% white and 40% black and that's how I mix it So here I'm going in with my medium gray. I'm still using my medium gray to Finish off the corners here Because I don't want it to be solid black. I needed I wanted it to be some dimension in here I'm slowly Dipping it in in my lightest gray There it is see that big change nice And right in between those empty gaps. That's where I'm putting it in my lightest gray Because I definitely do not want to mess with my solid black If you put your lightest gray on top of black, it will make your black look a little ashy For the top lip. I'm going to go back to my medium my medium My medium tones and dip it one time on my black ink cap just one time And then with that I'm going to start here So it can be darker on the edges cut it off right there, and I'm going to start switching to my lightest gray Without cleaning the needle That way by the time I get to the center it is way lighter Solid black. I don't really like how this area is too thin So I'm going to make it a little bit thicker and then give it that fading out effect I'm going to go to my three round liner with a three round liner I'm just going to finish it off with adding little details on the On the lip on the bottom lip and just add some tiny little wrinkles Just to give it that extra extra And I'm using just solid black for this And that's how I will do lips So here This is what I'm recovering up today. You can feel every single line so basically Whoever did it went in It looks like they were maybe using a seven round liner Even like a single needle maybe just over layering the same line over and over again So like I mentioned yesterday, I said that I was going to explain this part of the This part of the statue How to make it look like it was chipping away as I was doing the the statue here. I realized that the St. Michael's or the previous tattoo landed on the left side of his face So what I decided to do is to By the way, my reference is just a plain image like the the light source is just going straight to the face So the shade are on the back of the face And the cheeks the nose the forehead the chin everything's very very bright But since this is a cover-up I'm over here adapting Like in other videos, I mentioned that if you're going to do a cover-up You got to be ready to improvise you got to be able to Do your own thing in case of anything what I'm doing here is that I decided to Change the light source and make it look like the light source is coming from this side of the face That way this side of the face is glowing And then this side is the the part where the the face has like the the shadow so What I'm doing right now is I grabbed my 14 round liner With a voltage of 5.0 and I grabbed my solid black and I'm doing heavy texture So this is all I'm doing right now heavy texture Trying to erase every single line And then I'm going to go back with my lightest gray To go in between these little gaps to Make the whole thing disappear And then once I'm done it's going to look very high contrast And The best part is that tattoo is not going to show Just a reminder I know I mentioned it before Do not use white To cover up black No matter how much white you use that black is always gonna Pop pop pop back out pop Come back out stand show back up Show up She's gonna show again. It's gonna reappear. It's gonna reappear. There we go So always use grays to cover up black You can use white to distract the eye from the black areas But never use it to cover it up. It's never gonna work Even though it might not show in the in like You know in the healing process give it about two months or so Give it about six months. It's gonna come back out or reappear Thank you guys for coming back this week and watching this new video. I appreciate it And if you're new to this channel, welcome to the club I encourage you To go and watch a lot of my videos because I put out a lot of tutorials and techniques So feel free to check that out Because if you did not have if you if you did not get if you did not get your question answer this video I'm pretty sure I answer in a different video. So Um, I got bad news. I unfortunately deleted A lot of the footage from the second day on accident I organized my videos in folders and I deleted the folder that had the The videos of what it looked like at the end and A lot of footage and it sucks, you know, because it was such a great project But I don't have the footage But uh, I would like to believe that you guys trust me when I say that it turned out great He's coming back in the near future. So you guys are going to be able to see it eventually But as in right now you guys are going to be able to see the way the forum turned out Uh, and yeah, I mean, I'm excited to show you guys So if you're a tattoo artist, I hope you learned something from this video And if you're a tattoo enthusiast, I hope you were entertained. Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you guys next week. Peace