 How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week my client is flying in from New Jersey to get a cover-up done He's getting married this year, so I gotta make sure that he looks good for that special day You know so without being said let's get this day started Let's go So the project that I'm gonna be doing on him is I'm gonna be covering up this tattoo here So the first thing so that I'm gonna put on is King Tut just so I can Have a better understanding of where if all the stencils are gonna go just let it happen There you go Second sense. So I'm gonna do the pyramid perfect And then the last time so I'm gonna be applying now that I have King Tut on the top the pyramid on the bottom now I can kind of determine okay, where do I really want the The galaxy the light source is coming from this side here because if you look at King Tut This whole entire part of the face is it's the glare of it So we gotta make we gotta make sure that it makes sense So if you look at the reference from King Tut you have the highlight on the forehead the nose The top of the bottom lip and in this lip is the darkest point So that's telling me that the light source is from this side So with that being said now we got to make sure that all the light source is hitting this angle. Whoo. All right Go ahead and check it out make sure you like the placement Niggi niggi niggi All right, so now that I what I did here. I just added a little bit of texture on the on the smaller planet here and The reason why I started off with doing the planet first Because I want to make sure that the background is not just solid black. I want to add some gray tones I want to add some dimension. I want to add separation between The darks and the lights So here I ended up adding a lot of Solid black with some gray tones to create texture So I want to make sure that this right here the end of this the the circle here the planet I want to make sure that it's solid black okay and once I start doing the background I want to navigate to where The way I'm going to approach it is adding light grays here Because I want this to glow Once I get to the top I'm going to add darker tones that way this is going to glow And the bottom is going to be light grays and that's going to glow as well So you got to make sure that everything is legible and be able to navigate and pay attention to your like your contrast Just that's the most important thing you got to pay attention to your contrast at All times when it comes down to cover-ups because you don't want a piece just to look dark Because once somebody sees it it's going to be like that was a cover-up and you don't want that You want to make sure that the the whoever's looking at your tattoo Doesn't even know it's a cover-up and that is the goal So I'm gonna go ahead and start doing the background here and time-lapse that real quick So I do want to show the way I pack Solid colors solid black. So I have my 14 round liner And I'm running my machine at 5.0 and uh The reason why I like using this needle Is because I I cause less irritation on the skin And uh I move faster for some reason if I was using a Mac. I feel like it slows me down my for me using my 14 round liner Is the best approach that I can take to packing in solid black And it allows me to create texture as I'm doing it Also, I like to uh Get a lot of uh ink in my cartridge so I can just do Uh a lot of coverage in a single pass See that single pass boom I do the same thing here The way I know that I'm packing in the solid black is I feel this vibration on my hand that lets me know that I'm Packing it in at the right speed Right needle depth And right voltage Just everything feels right, you know If I was using a nine round liner, I'll still do the same thing if I was using a 14 round shader round liner Um, I'll I'll keep the same movement, but I definitely Like uh my favorite needles or my favorite cartridges are round liners and round shaders Those are the two that I use the most in every single tattoo if I'm doing like a a really soft face and I'll maybe I'll start using like a 11 curved mac or a 17 curved mac even a A 27 curved mac But since most of the time I'm doing texture. I'm always using uh round shaders and round liners And you know as you can see it's probably been no more than um than two minutes and I already got a lot of coverage Also using this uh low voltage with this cartridge The skin doesn't get irritated as fast. So um You're not going to see any swelling anytime soon. It's probably going to start swelling up in the next Probably like two hours or so. That's when you start noticing Um the skin getting a little swollen and me using a 10 a 10 voltage and a nine voltage I'm probably going to scar the skin because I'm so used to a low voltage that switching uh to such a high voltage I'm going to cause some damage but uh for me when I see artists using that You know that voltage of a 10 or nine I I'm just like, how are you doing that? I can't do it bro. I can't Yeah I cannot use that. Yeah, no I used to though when I was when I first started tattooing I was uh experimenting, you know what I mean using like a Like a seven I was using an eight and nine and I was tattooing in different ways But I could never get comfortable until one day. I was like, you know what my tattoo like a six And I noticed a big difference and then after that I I was like if I can tattoo a six and I got these results I wonder what would happen if I go lower. I feel like it was almost an accident when I first tried it I don't remember me wanting to try a 5.0 voltage, but it just happened, you know So I don't I don't know It was meant to be I feel like when I tattoo texture on faces, I feel like it looks like I don't know what I'm doing It's got to you just got to be You know, relax Texture is It's just Something to have fun with The technique Is everything And if That song it's like in my head right now And if I ever fall in love again How was that? How was that? That was perfect You liar You're lying to me All right, well after this mini concert that I just um That I just did I'm gonna go ahead and continue tattooing now. I hope you learned something from this video Either you learned that I don't know how to sing Or maybe you learned a new technique I can watch in this brand new video I've been getting a lot of the amps of my instagram from artists using my techniques and using everything I teach on my videos And definitely makes me really happy to see that i'm helping in some way And it motivates me to keep sharing all my techniques with 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