Author: louis santos

Full Back Tattoo Cogs and Wings

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Full back Black and grey Tattoo. Cogs with Wings. Doing a full back tattoo it requires a lot of patience from both client and artist. When the client goes through thick and thin and reaches the end result, specially being a full back tattoo, the reward is amazing from both client and artist. I love doing full back tattoos, the reason why is because it feels like having a canvas in front of you, so it feels like a painting. Thank you

Poseidon Greek Mythology Tattoo

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Greek Mythology, Poseidon, black and grey tattoo. I’m currently working on a lot of Greek Mythology and Egyptian Mythology black and grey tattoos. I’m having a lot of fun with it. I will be blogging about a lot of those projects. So keep an eye on my blogs, for updates on the progress of all those Greek Mythology and Egyptian Mythology Tattoos I’m working on. I was very fortunate to start a full back piece of Greek Mythology on my friend Nico. He is such a nice guy, and I even started my podcast with him. I have a new podcast on YouTube and Instagram, I’m really enjoying it, it gives me a bit of a balance in between tattooing and socialising with my clients. Thank you

Lily Flower Colour Tattoo

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I free handed this Lily Tattoo cover-up, I love working with cover-ups, however, it helps when the client likes colour, as the colour will deviate the viewers eye from the cover-up. I love doing black and grey, and colour tattoos. The balance between black and grey and colour it’s really refreshing for me, with a balance between doing black and grey and colour tattoos and art, I can keep going and never get bored of it. Thank you for looking.

Egyptian Black and Grey Tattoo idea

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Egyptian black and grey tattoo idea. Traditional pencil drawing, Egyptian Tattoo idea. Egyptian related art and tattoos is a style I’m loving to do at the moment. I like drawing to bring out new ideas, as we see a lot of Egyptian Tattoos duplicated from google images, then a lot of clients end up with the same tattoo.

Geisha vs Centaurus Mythology

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Japanese and Greek Mythology pencil drawing. Geisha and Centaurus meeting in the same dimension, the outcome of this scene, it will be up to the viewer. That’s the beauty about looking at a piece of art, it’s to interpret it in your own personal way. The way I interpret it, is that anything is possible. I have been learning about 4th dimension, and that’s where we go when we dream, in that dimension everything is possible. So I try to achieve that sort of idea, when I draw. Thank you

Genisha Buddha Pencil Drawing

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It’s a pleasure to be able to step away from tattooing, and work toward a form of art that gives me a lot of freedom, to express myself, without any time limit. Drawing outside of tattooing, is really important to allow me as an artist to develop artistically and deliver more than the reference has to offer. A lot of tattoos nowadays are Google images, and i do make the most of that facility, to find ideas and have references, however, being able to draw, you can go beyond that google reference, and give your customer something more unique, and not tattoo an exact copy of what a lot of artists can have. When you draw, you can also build your own style, so your works has almost a signature, and it’s really satisfying to be able to offer my client more than a google image. Thank you

The Power of existence- Digital Art

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The Power of Existence, realism digital art in colour. Painting realism is a joy to me, digital art allows me to throw realism ideas in colour out a lot quicker than painting traditionally. I had this idea of translating the idea of death and rebirth in a digital paint. All humans will go through an ego death experience while they live, we all must go throughout that lesson, which it will teach us a better and more balanced ego, it’s a place in between, where you believe in yourself, you know your worth, therefore , you don’t need to believe you are better than anybody else. If we are not humble, life will humble us eventually. So it’s good to have a good ego balance, and getting to that place takes years of living, and the more capable you are, the more life will squeeze you to make you learn. So it’s not in vain that we go throughout difficult times. Everything will pass by.

New Black and Grey Art Collection

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I have a new black and grey art collection in my station, I love to draw and do tattoos in black and grey. Drawing the style of the tattoo I wish to do, is a way to practise the style before I tattoo it. As I love the black and grey style of tattooing, I have the urge to go home and draw. I believe if a tattoo artist only tattoo black and grey style, they will be limited by the reference. Drawing a black and grey style of art, it enables you to learn how the shadow falls in the subject, it allows the artist to think outside the box while doing a tattoo, drawing black and grey it allows the artist to go beyond the reference, and deliver a more artistic black and grey tattoo. I understand nowadays technology has changed a lot of trades including tattooing. So a lot of tattoo artists believe they don’t need to draw, as photoshop and tools allow them to deliver a copied image from google. However if you dedicate to drawing what you tattoo, you can give more than a google image.

South American Half Sleeve Tattoo

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I have been have a lot of fun with this South American half sleeve black and grey tattoo. This is not the final picture, as we have just one more session left on it. Doing a tattoo like that, you have to be able to draw, as a lot of tattoos nowadays are made from google images. However this South American form of art is non existent nowadays, and a lot of these images, from these old South American civilisations, are so decayed and not very clear to recognise the full image, of what their art looked like. So what I did was to find pieces and parts of puzzled ancient art. And put them all together and create our own version of that ancient art. And I absolutely love that. When me and the client create a new version of what they are trying to achieve, therefore, the client has their request full field with a piece of art created just for them. That tattoo, you will not see anywhere else, because my client allowed me to create something just for him. And I’m so grateful that he had faith, gave me freedom to express myself, with that attitude, it’s more likely you will achieve a better tattoo.

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