A New Tattoo Project

[🪦 Bear ●]

Some of you might have seen this on another forum, but I couln\'t resist posting it here as well for the rest to see...

I know some of you are already inked, but for those who are not...here ya go!

First we start out with the first, of two, tattoos I have. I got this one when I turned 18, pretty cool back in 1988 but not so cool today.



So I was thinking one day while at the haunt that I\'d like to do a cover-up and the wheels started spinning.

I came up with an idea in my mind and just kind of stuck it back in my head until a couple of weeks ago when I realized my B-Day was coming up. So, I decided to follow through with the idea and this is what I came up with.



Then I sent the idea to Crash, who is just so awesome to work with...kudos Crash!! A bit later he sent me a preliminary cover-up drawing and we went from there.



A few days later he blew me away with the finished drawing, much better than I had hoped for.



After hours of studying and looking over the drawing, there were a few changes that I wanted done. Rather than take up any additional time of Crash\'s I decided to go with the old standby, Photoshop.

I did some head tilts on LF, Myers, and Jman. I also lowered Jman\'s head and brought that burned guy a bit closer to myers.



When I was happy with the artwork I printed it out full size and said, "D%#$, this is gonna be HUGE!!"

So I took the prints down to the shop and handed it to the artist and he said, "D%#$, that f*&^@$r is HUGE!" Well, I pressed on and sat through 3 wonderful hours of pleasure and pain. Then I remembered this was only the line drawing...shading would still come later.

Here is the finished line work, in 2 weeks I\'ll return to give Jman the glory he deserves and well go on from there.

[🪦 Bear ●]

OK, so worked on Jman last night for about an hour and a half and finished his shading. But, due to the scar tissue around the panther he didn\'t want to do the color in the same sitting.

I might go back next week, if I have the funds, and do that burned guy next. Each character from here on out will be completed per sitting. So this might not take as long as I originally expected.

So on with the pics...

[🪦 WHiTE_SiDER ●]

very nice man :thumbsup:

[🪦 knewby ●]

That is one bad-azz tat!....Crash is very talented no doubt. Does he do commercial work like movies and such?

[🪦 Bear ●]

Thanks guys, not sure about movie work...if not, he should. I just can\'t wait to get this bad boy finished!!

[🪦 knewby ●]

Its gonna be amazing when its done...I\'d love to have a print of his artwork..I love the design....................Larry

[🪦 VF 31 ●]

thats lookin great!

[🪦 Bear ●]

Its gonna be amazing when its done...I\'d love to have a print of his artwork..I love the design....................Larry

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I\'ll print you a copy up of this one if you want it...

[🪦 IbDaToNeGuY ●]

so are they all going to be black shading or will the rest have color ? i think it wold look awesome either way really . oh and don\'t forget that tri on jmans mask lol . would that be something you\'d show the stars if you saw them at a con. ? if so i\'d have them autograph your back just under it and go back and get the autographs tattooed .

mike,

[🪦 knewby ●]

I\'ll print you a copy up of this one if you want it...

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Thanks so much but I just remembered I got a new printer for Christmas...I\'ll try and print it from the one you loaded...thanks again, much appreciated...Larry