Jocker girl freestyle

Here is a project I inked at Reutlingen Convention Germany.
Customer drop in with this jocker girl picture and he want it inked. I don t like to coppy other people tattoos , specialy when they are full with mistakes (noo offence for the autor , I don t now who did it ) , so i try to rebuild the same image , the same angle of face and expresion using some of mu own reference.
For the face I use a picture of Maitsumi Max , for hair and makeup a drawing I have found in internet and I put the rest.
I writte this blog only to show how is possibile to do an original tattoo , using customer s ideea but without coppy something . This way you will have an original picture who will fit perfect your body and your wishes ;)
Here are the pictures :
Customer reference , Maitsumi picture , my drawing and the final resoult

Reutlingen Tattoo Convention Germany

Every year on my birthday , 6 september , is Reutlingen Tattoo Convention . This is the first conventin where I atend with my girlfriend Adda , actualy my whife now. Reutlingen was the beginning of our tattoo world journey . Here in Reutlingen , in 2008 , when we come first time we meet Ski King , the one who show us the way for new conventions and guestpots , also here we do our first guesot a Deep Cut Tattoo Studio , at reutlingen I meet my herro and later my friend Bernie Luther , also Randy Engelhard who was a rockye in 2008 :) and now is one of the world best artists .
I don't want to be boring , but Reutlingen have a big nfluence on my tattoo career amd imy life. In this place I feel that I have strong roots and I am always full of energy !
This year I have some drop ins , Emanuel , an local tattoo artist come with a request not in my style , but he trust me amd emd up with this Jesuss portrait , done in my style . Freestyle , far away from reference.
I start from this picture with Zefirelly jessus , not in a good quality and I build my own jessus , here is the priginal picture , the freehand/stencil and the fonal result:

Black widow tattoo

Here is one of my favorite projects , actually was an spontaneous idea that I inked last year (2013) at Brussels Tattoo Convention .
My costumer want something half angel half good , half bad but without devils , he think about a Katrina , witch is a very popular theme in tattooing. I always try to advice my clients to chose something original , not only the motive himself but also the theme because I don t like to copy and I think is good to use body anatomy for make the tattoo fit perfect the person ( the person mind and body ) this means custom work .
This time I propose my customer to do something different than other people use to . I choose a picture with Vera Renczi , a very famous murderer from Romania in the 1920 , she was known like "The Black Widow" . Actually a very beautiful woman but she use her charm to kill more than 35 people using Arsenic , mostly mans .
I find one really cool picture with big contrast and highlights that offer me the chance to have a really light good side and almost black dark side . Because my customer don t want to have visible demons on the skin I choose to do half face like a negative skull , in order to suggest the evil , but on the first moment you can see only the woman . I use her face lines to build the skull side in harmony with the other side and I just use some highlights for balance with the light side keeping all the skull in the shadow.
I think this is one of my most powerful projects , not only because the technic but mostly because the theme and the history of the picture .
Here are the reference picture and my tattoo work.
The tattoo take 30 min drawing , 3.5 hours of work and I use Cheyenne Thunder and my own pure black formula ;)

Portraits fever

Long time I don t post a new blog because I was searching for a direction in my tattoo-work , trying to find my favorite tattoo themes in order to do a progress in my work and reach a next level of profession .
Beside my first beloved themes like skulls , horror tattoos or byomech I focus much in human anatomy and portraits . Is a bit hard to do this , because I need time to prepare and focus on this projects , that's why I must refuse many projects and requests from old and new customers , projects that are not on my artistic area , but on the end I find the balance .
Here are some examples of my last tattoo-work , i promise in the next time I will co,e with some projects and descriptions of my techniques and progress .
Enjoy ;)