damit, why do they have to close

Damion, Ish, Jessi,

I was there supporting my art friends. Damions was saling T-shirt, Ish was just there to support as well. Jessi made 100 bucks that night. her art work is quite good. actually i really like it. I am trying to get her to want to get into tattooing ..eventually.

another shot of the peeps hard at work.

busy night.people dancing

out line. took about an hour to do

begin shading. This one took about another hour, still poking around and testing.(still a little slow)

with a little bit more experience from yesterday i am able to make nice shading today. This one was challenging, i work on this while he sets up. so my drawing arm was in an awkward position, but i ll get use to i,t imagine drawing with your pad at about 80 degree while trying to stretch the skin and tryign to keep my drawing hand from shaking. I still do not have enough wrist power to keep full control of the machine. (note to self : work out wrist and fore arm alot more) I think it was best to let him lay side way on his side. when i draw i usually rest my arm on something and let my wrist rotate. when i can't do that my lines always end up looking not so straight. there's a few bad spots here and there. but i can fake it and hide it with the shading. lol, after all it is a free tattoo. other then that i love to shade, it was really easy. I wish the shop didn't close or i didn't have to go to my other job. I wish i could keep going with tattooing. until i can't do it anymore

the guy i tattooed today offered to pay if i could draw an Aztec warrior, basically something like that barbarian guy i drew a few days ago. just change his out fit to look like AZtec. He told me he really like the pose. he mentioned that alot of the Aztec drawing he saw have about the same pose...(static and boring )lol, i think that's a compliment.
unfortunately i couldnt' get the tattoo machine, my credit card company is being a little bastard.
I went to First Friday and passed out a few Free Tattoos flier, I talked to all this really good looking girls and they seemed really interested in it.(unfortunately not me...) feels kinda weird, I wonder if they only talked to me only because i have something they want. or would they even give me their time of day if i was to just talk to them. ...oh well, i mind as well use my tattoo skills to my advantage. heh, weather they show up or not is another stories. I'm still trying to get used to all this compliments. :) I suppose to do tattoo on this girls boobies next week or something.
I really like my job because i am constiently drawing, when not tattooing i m either drawing for my own pleasure or preparing a drawing for the next tattoo.
the oddest thing is , i draw all day and then when i come home i draw even more. we sort of form our own art club. me, matt, jessi, diamon, ish. and a few.

I poked my self in the figure today, it barely penatrate the toppest layer of the skin (no blood) and it was before i start. so i should be ok.
Still trying to keep everything as clean as possible.

I have to remember to go get my blood tested ( I should be on the clear)
and get vaccination shot for hepatitis A and B.
have to watch for C though. no cure for it.