Dear Internet,
Wow its been a minute since I last wrote here.
As always , been super busy with piercing at the shop, and tattooing as much as I can when Im not piercing. Been feeling pretty good with the actual tattooing part, although I seem to be doing more traditional style stuff which although doesn’t show much versatility , does show I can do a good , clean solid tattoo. Now that Im feeling better with all that part of inserting pigment into the skin, I’ve also been drawing a lot as well, really working on my composition and flow. Things are going well and I can see myself progressing artistically. Its pretty sweet!
In addition to color work which I really prefer , Ive also playing some with Black and grays which aren’t as intimidating as I had previously thought. Black or darker tones are needed in almost EVERYTHING the eye sees to show depth and for the eye to be able to differentiate between objects and colors. Once you are able to understand and do things in black and gray, it seems much easier to be able to do truer, richer tones of colors to do more photo realistic stuff and not so traditional or new school-y with using color.
Obviously I’m light years away from even attempting that sort of thing, (plus color portraits dont interest me), but its nice to be able to be progressing enough to be able to understand somewhat these things and actually know where to start and have an idea for the methods for the madness. Before seeing things with a much more untrained eye , I dont think I could even understand what I was seeing other than it just being pleasing to the eye.
Other that that, Work on Vol 2 is coming along nicely and should be done within the next couple months at the latest.
Planning out European trip for later this year, and gearing up for my Texas trip next month!
Ill hopefully be In Dallas, Austin and Corpus for short periods of time and will be available for appointments
ill leave with a cute little black and gray hello kitty skeleton I did a couple weeks ago that I thought was really cute.
I promise Ill try to get on here more, but cant promise I will
praise hell
say 10
-R
