Saturday, September 29, 2007

Holy Crap, I'm sorry!!

random sketch, i hate the forms on this one ..everyone seems to like it though...it is strange...many people are easily amused. :)

Today when i was tattooing, i found that I was having a hard time getting the ink into the skin. The line was very fuzzy and it seemed to bleed more. The gentleman was telling me that it was hurting more then the one I gave him yesterday. Then i found that one of the needle was bend, forming a hook like shape. ...so it basically tearing his skins as it pulls out. I feel so terrible but this is only my third tattoo. The pain wasn't that bad, i guess live and learn.

As a gratitude the gentlemen i tattooed yesterday and today brought me a set of Samurai swords. (Katana, Wasashi, and the shortest one...the one that they used to proform...Sabaku..if i remember correctly that's what they call it..when a Samurai kill himself, ) he also told me that he ll have some tip for me too. It was very kind of him. now i have something to decorate my room with I also want to get a full Samurai suit to hang on my wall, I can also wear it for Halloween.
Everyone have such high hope for me over there, I'll try my best to live up to that. i'll be drawing days and nights as usual.
I learned many new tips today as well, My line work on my last tattoo was good but not as confident as it could be.(what happened to day didn't help either) it was very scratchy, ie, many lines connected together to make a long line, Robert showed me the master way. the trick is to make one swift line using your wrist. ...you l lhave to see it to understand.

Next week i get to try a temp tattoo on myself and start on shading and probably start with colors as well. we have 2 tattoo artist joining the shop as well.

Friday, September 28, 2007

2nd free tattoo

this one took a while, but I am getting used to poking the skin alot more, i get to do a mirror of it on the other arm tomorrow. yeah!! I still need to work on my line work but looks like every one is impress with it at the shop. He also wanted me to make it look like it is holding a sword. I love tattooing, seems like everyone respect me alot, i get a sense of appreciation at a more personal level...feels really weird, guess i m just not use to it.
he says he ll give me big tip next time he comes in. hooray!!!
I really want to get a set of tattooing machine for myself , that way i can practice at home as well ..sigh but its 500... well , if i think about it, it is one hell of a great investment in the long run i can make a tone of money from it. I think i will go ahead and do it next week. This week i went ahead and bought me the power supply unit and some sanitizer stuff.
i love to get an ultra sonic...man, i got quite a bit of stuff to get to get started, i am lucky that Robert is welling to share his stuff with me. He is awesome.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Man, am I tired!!

still testing color scheme..trying to establish the mood. since her drawing style are line base i think it would be wise to keep the out line intact. I have not really sat down and painted in almost 3 weeks.. its terrible because when i come back i feel like i m starting over again. :(
spend wayy too much time on this piece.

today i managed to poked my self in the palm of my hand some how. (not good to do considering where i work) but lucky it wasn't any needle of any sort. all used needle are placed in a bio hazard container promptly after use. I think when i sat down there was a piece some thing on the carpet that prick a small cut on the palm of my hand. i'm paranoid about getting blood born diseases. geezs i m tired, never knew tattoo machine can drain so much life out of me. bbl tonight to add more....
never mind, i m done for the night, be back tomorrow.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

First Victim today :)

My first time
This was fun, the skin feels a lot different then the practice surface i been working on. I do not need to push very hard on it to get the ink in and the black looks really black. it took about one hour and 15 mins to do this one. a little slow but it is my first piece. I did made a small mistake right by the white dot. This one was above her left breast. ..so it was a little weird.. feel like i was crushing her boob when i was trying to stretch her skin. over all everyone was happy with the result. I need more practice so if any one lives in the area and want to get a free tattoo drop by.

Will post later on today.

Jesse's awesomeness

anime Jesse and her ride, I really like her line work. She keeps saying that she can't shad very well, but i know she's full of talents. I decided to color this one, with her consent of course, still got a bit of researching to do before i actually get started, just messed around at work for a bit the other night.

Monday, September 24, 2007

To do list

-Go to Juan's graduation
-Go fix Jeff's computer
-Go to Scottsdale to see Michael.
-Call Credit card company.

Journal.
Finally got a hold of Danyella, she was quite for a bit, I think she might be sick and her Grandma is as well ..i think. I showed her the tattoos practice I'd been working on and she seemed very impressed with it. She ask when I am going to go up there and visit her. She likes to get a tattoo. she also mentioned that her friends and her cousin are looking to get one as well, I think her cousin are coming from Hawaii to see her in two weeks. i want to go but I'm a little short on cash at the moment and do not have any tattoo equipment yet, but I told her that when she gets down here I would love to give her something to remember. ha-ha, a tattoo that is, you pervert :P.
I think this week we might go to Sliding Rock. its a bout an hour drive up north from here. I will see if the guys wants to go. I'd been coloring some of Jessi's drawing will post later. she is quite an artist. This week hopefully i get to practice on real person. I posted my tattoo practice pieces on myspace bulletin board and everyone seems to like it. I miss my cat. the other night i dreamed that i was in a Romen battle killing many people. lol, strange.

Illustration Friday "Juggle"

Hi, thank you for dropping by, have a good one.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

more tattoo practice.

this one is...not hard, just takes a long time. probably not practical for a tatoo, but still fun to creae.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Will tattoo for food

ha-ha

3rd day tattooing

her is my first attempt to shade with a slightly larger needle set at a lower poking rate...not sure what s a better term. but not bad for the first try. I really like cat so i might do a portrait of my cat later on.
She is done.at least for now. i might add all the other stuff around her, i.e a glow around her head and flowers. I will shade her tomorrow or at least try to anyway.

Still much to learn but I think I'm coming along pretty good. a full day of learning today. went to work and tattooed all day...well, actually didn't get started until 4 pm. but i managed to get pretty far.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

finer needle.

This would be a great piece for a tattoo , I used a ref image for this one, freehand it on to the surface. My first victim will be this weekend . yeah!! i m tired, only got to spend a little bit of time on this, will finish her tomorrow. bbl tired.

I dreamed about that house again, maybe its a sign, my uncles is calling for me. He was one of my favorite, actually I wish I could have the chance to see him before he passed away. While growing up in Thailand I used to spend alot of time there. I remember there were 3 really large Mango tree in the back of the house(along with pigs, chickens, ducks. lol we grow most of the food that we eat ourself, i love the little ducky, they re so cute, I remember mothering a few of those, they used to follow me every where i go.). During Mango season, there were hundread of mangoes dangling down. One time I looked up and saw no sign of ripe mangoes at all. So I blindly threw my sandle( there were so much mangoes on the trees that you re garanteed to hit at least one) and then to my surprise a ripe mango felt on the ground. I felt so special that day :)
My grandpa told me that the house was hunted, because it was build near an old grave or something, There was this female ghost that used to scared my uncle everynight, the strangest thing was that she woudn't bother anyone else living there. anyways, one night he told me, while sleeping he felt as if someone was tingleling his feet, so when he waked up he sawed this female forms by his feet, he dashed out though the balcony and hoped the second flow and run home to his dad. My grandpa is a ..well, i m not sure how you call him, but alot of people respected him, he's very spiritual, he does furtune telling as well,(people would travel across the country to come see him) anyway, there were many interesting stories but that was the only one that i can remember. My grampa finally came by and blissed the house, and put some kind of nails in the ground around the house ( i guess it was used as a shield to keep ghost out?) then after that the ghost was never seen again .

In Thailand we do not bury our dead, so ...it was interesting. i think i was eight when i attended the ...feneral. I was surprise to ..see what i saw. there's a special spot in town where all the bodies are burn. I saw the coffin placed on the woods , set on fire..the .well i m not sure if i was scared or not , but when the coffin collasped, i remember part of the head(actually i think it was a head) felt out of it and rolled off to the side, i can hear oozing sounds of all the juices. I can see the forms of the body, the smell of burning fleahs. It was quite graphic for an 8 year old boy to see.
My Mom's mother house was also hunted at one point. In Thailand every trees of great size are belived to be home of ghost sprite. Most are considered peaceful spirits. But when people start to cut their home down that's when bad things happen. anyways, there was a ghost that hunted my grama's house when my mother was a little girl. ...i will save this for some other time, but one of the post that was used to build the house was home to a spirit. I guess it used to be a great tree. She was very angry for what they did, ( the ghost) and hunted my mother for months, ...there ware many interesting stories , but to make it short, in the end to make her go away, (the ghost) my mother said, she requested a mirror and ..i think some flowers as well. the next day they placed those at the site and she was never seen again. lol, i m terrible at telling stories but ...yah.

My first quarter attending school here in Phoenix, I raised two baby Pigeons, They were wondering around aimlessly in the school yard, like little kids.(can't fly) I know Pigeons are consider by many to be disease carrier and that they're dirty. But couldn't help it when i see how adorable they looked. why let them die when i can help them right? they deserve to live to. heh, so anyways, i threw them in a box and took them home. I feed them everyday, clean out their box for a month, from what i can tell, it looked like they can fly. so i let them out of the box. a long while later i came back and see that they're still setting there. so i picked both of them up and put them one the light bulbs housing so that he can have a safe place to sleep for the night. the next morning i got up and saw that they flew to the roof of the garage next to the balcony, I didn't know what they're doing but i threw a bunch of bird seeds on the roof for them. They finally took off later on that day. I was sad for a while, but when night time rolled around I saw that they were back. lol, they were like that for several days, but then on the third day, I only saw one that came back. he was freaked out, as if something had scared him ..actually not sure what sex both of them were. I was very sad to see that the other bird wasn't with it. I haven' seem them apart ever since I got them. Needless to say, i never saw them again the next morning. ...How cruel.
yes, laugh all you want, it's heart breaking to see two sibling get separated. no matter what you are.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

So Happy!!!

Today i get to tattoo for the first time with the tattoo machine. It's not real skin but it did give me an idea of what to expect from the machine. I am happy to say that it was awesome, i love the weight on the machine, instead of pushing on it as i draw the line, i let the weight of the machine do the pushing for me,I love how much control i have. I used only the out line needle, I think it is called , Tight 7. Seven needles tightly squeezed together. tomorow i get to used the shading needles.

there's is one thing that kinda bugged me a bit, initially after you refill your tube, alot of ink will spill out covering everything so that you can't see, so you have to constitently wipe the surface, but ones it is a bit drained it becomes alot easier to see what you re doing. I cant' wait till i get to start coloring, IF it all goes well, i should be up and running with in a month here. there's already a line of people wanting free tattoo. :) if you want one just leave your name here.
My hand did got kinda numb after two hours, now i know why i need to work out my forarm. I love explore new forms of art and learning new things so I am very grateful. especially for what Robert, Diana and Tracy have done for me.
heh, the guys was thinking of taking me to the Strip bar with them next time they go...ha-ha, It's been a while, I do like to find me a new gf, but definately won't find those there.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Furry fun

Love is forever
This week illustration friday word of the week is "Wedding" i couldn't think of anything original so i came up with death...now all i have to do is post it in a more interesting manner and overly the wedding dresses. oh well, I ll skip this week.
this one i used the scanner.
Using my digital camera
I used photo ref for this one, still quite a bit of challenge and great practice, especially with pen. it took probably a million strokes and a few hours later to get this far.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Practice, practice and more practice.

This weekend i decided to draw something hard, furry stuff, with pen. working on a Leopard now :) for got to bring my camera so I wont be able to post anything new till tomorrow. Thankfully i have tomorrow off.
I probably just set around and draw.
on Saturday I went to get a practice surface to test the tattoo machine. So I am very excited to get started on Tuesday. If all goes well i might be tattooing by early next month . that would be sweet!!
I wonder what happened to Danyella, she's been quite for the past days. I wonder if she is ok. I ll have to remember to give her a call tomorrow. Hopefully she's still coming down. Still looking forward to seeing her :P . if not I think i ll fly up there instead.

A few of my friends are going through relationship issues some even gotten their heart broken. I guess it happens more often then I imagined. what a drain. It sucks to see your friends going though it. I wish I have special power to make it all go away, lol since I don't all i can do is give helpful advices and be a supportive friend.

Went to visit friends(Chris and Courtney) I meet at First Friday down in Tempe. It was really cool, though them i also meet about a dozen other of their friend. we sat around and listen to a dude singing. he was quite good. Chris was thinking of holding an Art show at his place and wanted to see if i wanted to join. I really like his art style, very unique. i think i d mention it before and his wife makes this wonderful begs. they are heading to Thailand. i m so jaelous.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Loooongest week ever...

Still no time for much(fun)
I go to work, come home, draw, sleep, wake up, go to work....you get the point.
according to my calculation i spent about 60 hours at work this week.
well, the cool thing is that my work isn't really work that's what i like so much about it. I get to draw all day long, soon i ll get to make a mark on people, the fact that i get to draw something that truly mean so much to someone that they want to put it on their skin is a good feeling. I also love the fact that people respect me for what I do, oh and the fact that my art ..basically advertise itself. My pan is to become well know and let them come to me. :) work that is. the pays are great too...eventually.

Friday, September 14, 2007

shop pics

game room.
Lobby, Diana on the phone.
Robert working away.
Front door
Hall way in the back
This is where we have research material, light box, copy machine, that's where i spent alot of time tracing flashes.
Robert's room.
This will eventually be my room
Hall way right to the lobby.
Some random drawing i did for fun. I really like to try structures rendering more often.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Rice ball

oh yah, will post some pictures of the shop tomorrow. next week i get to get on the machine, this Saturday will be a busy one. bbl.
I was thinking of flying somwhere.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Momentum

A guy riding on his sports bike. This was created using ball-point pen while using a photograph reference image. I used Photoshop to create the motion blur in the background. This piece was suppose to help me prepare for the tattoo machine..I think the ball-point pen tip probably equal to a sizes 3 tattoo needle.

So very BUsy!!!!


6 hours to complete. no time to sleep or shit or eat >:(

Monday, September 10, 2007

Team work

A few nights ago(i think we ended up at Danny till 5am), me, Ish and Jess did a little drawing rotating thingy. we drew something then passed it around then see what we can come up with.
This was started by Ish, Jessi added the cloth, cape, hair, ear, lion, face decoration. the big stone on her forehead. I added little pattern on her legs and arms. I really like this one and will probably colors it.
I started this one. Ish added the record, and left arm. Jessi added the dragon coming out of his chest. I later added the umbrella, the tutu, the flowers coming out of his head.
Jessi started this one, she did the girl and then i added the dude on the right side, plant, breast pump, hair. not ture what Ish did to it. Jessi later added more to her hair and changed the guy to aquatic creature of some kind.
took four hours so far, but this is about the quality i m going for as far as tattoo goes. hope that looks ok. I shot it with my camera so the quality is not as good. I will scan it later with my scanner when i get alot further.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

old memories.

after school i used to go there and play the arcade. i can beat Super contra and Double Dragon with just one live.
I went up that tree to the left. the cafeteria is to the right.
looks almost the same as the last time i was there.

its hard to believe, but that's where we used to lived 15 years ago in a small shack.
there used to be a big tree to the right, i guess it died. my mom used to have her garden right under neat it. it was really green back then.

I used to run around in that lot with some of my friends. thats the local post office.

Sister's vacation pictures

My sister just got back from Hawaii two weeks ago. thought I share it with you guy. enjoy. most of the picture were taken on Kauai and Oahu.
every sun set are like this.




King Kamehameha




Its really hard to get down there but I made it.

Its alway wet and cloudy up there

I love walking along the road.





i used to walk along a stream every morning to get to the bus stop. there's Crawfish the side of Lobster in those water.
Ryan, look at the water, so clear.

crazy sister

i'll have to try that next time i m there.

used to go pulling in those reef.
at night we used to go chasing the crabs, there's 100 of them that comes out at night.



ahh, i miss those fruits, i love the one she's pointing at. so good.


Ryan and Dad











i went down there a few time to hike. amazingly fun.






Waimea, I went to school there for a bit. used to fish at the bridge.
it is always like that here, cloudy and rainey.





went swimming a few times down there. mainly tourist spot though.



i used to love driving though here.