Tattoo Blog in Bury
Black and Grey Tattoo in Bury
Hello everyone, thanks for visiting my blog. The summer is over; we had a quiet, hot summer, which slowed my paintings and drawings a bit, as when it is a hot day, all you want to do is rest, the energy level decreases a bit, but as winter is approaching, I will have extra energy to focus on my art after I finish my main job is tattooing. I have been enjoying tattooing and drawing Mythology a lot, however, lately I have got the opportunity to do some really nice black and grey tattoos in Bury, so in this blog I would like to talk about 2 Black and Grey tattoos, I was grateful I got the opportunity to do it, and I really enjoy working on a horror portrait tattoo of Chucky of the movie Child’s play, and a surrealism black and grey skull tattoo.
Lets start with the Horror Tattoo piece. I love doing tattoo portraits, I have drawn a lot of faces out of love throughout my career, and drawing faces, it really contributes and enhance the knowledge of tattooing a portrait. I’m not a big fan of horror movies, however, I do like Child’s Play, I remember watching the first one when I was a kid in Brazil, and the story behind is quiet spiritual, as the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, that sort of voodoo practise is not something out of ordinary when you are born in a spiritual country. In Brazil we have an African religion called Candomble, best known as Macumba, if you want to look up, and in many occasions they do practise spiritual possession in human bodies, so that’s why when I first saw Chucky, I was familiar with what I was watching.
Child’s play is not based on a true story, however I believe that it has been cases of possessed dolls in human history. In Africa, they are very spiritual and there are a lot of cases similar to the Child Play movie, believe it or not
This Chucky tattoo, was done in one session, it took around 4 hours, I always ask my clients to come back after doing a realistic tattoo as you never know how its going to heal, realistic tattoos requires a lot of layers, and you have to slowly build up the skin, the skin has a limit, and you try to take it up to the limit, once you take it to the limit is time to stop. It is almost like dealing with a wet paint, you have to wait until it dries, with a tattoo you have to wait until it heals, doing too much tattooing in one area is dangerous for the tattoo healing, nowadays you get a lot of tattooists specially in Bali, tattooing full leg tattoos, sometimes both legs, that’s too much for the client to take, but some people appreciate quantity and not quality.
Portrait Tattoos also requires a lot of skill in drawing the human face, not so much with a Chucky Portrait, as its such a recognisable face, so it’s a little less pressure than tattooing a full on Portrait of someone’s parent.
Hopefully, I will see this Chucky tattoo healed, and be able to go back to it, if I get the opportunity to.
The second black and grey Tattoo I worked on, he was limited with a budget, however, because it was such a cool piece, I tried to help him out, I always try to give more to my client than what they spend, that is in order to make the tattoo the best it can be, I believe if you want to do the best tattoo as possible you have to spend more time than a tattoo artist would spend naturally. Usually Tattoo Artist’s charge exactly by the hour, I do charge by the hour as well, however, when the tattoo is all done and paid for, and I still can see improve on the tattoo I will spend the extra time necessary to make sure the tattoo reaches its full potential.
When I did this black and grey skull Tattoo in Bury, I studied a little,to be able to deliver something a little more custom. People still want custom tattoos, and it is the way I still approach my work, being able to give something unique to my client is still one of the benefits my clients can have when getting tattooed by me, as I draw a lot, it also helps with the ability to give something unique to my clients.
The skull tattoo was done in 3 hours, his budget was a little lower but that’s what you have to do if you want to build a portfolio with tattoos that you want to do.
Thank you for reading my blog.
