Tattoo Nightmare...

I was looking at my blog, and I have blogged about my kids and home life, most of all about music, but I haven't really blogged about the other aspects of my life that make up the title of this blog. So I figured I would let you in to a little bit of the tattoo world. Before you get to looking at these pictures and instantly think that the terrible work is that of my own. A guy that I have done a portrait for was so happy with his portrait that he challenged me to fix a bad portrait tattoo that he had.. I said OK, I can do that. Just bring the original picture with you and I will do my best to bring it back to life..





Sorry that this isn't a very good quality picture, but it was taken with my cell phone camera.. Now I know you are looking at this and thinking "yeah crappy tattoo, but not Terrible" Well I didn't tell you the biggest part.. This is not a portrait of his son.. this is supposed to be his daughter!!! Yeah, not quite. I spent probably a half hour just staring at it and staring at the picture of the little girl trying to figure out how the hell I was going to bring it back around. The most important part of a portrait and getting a likeness is in the regular features. Eyes, Nose, and Mouth. If you can get those features right, you can usually pull the rest together pretty easy. When I compared the original picture to the tattoo, I could see that the features were off, in fact the whole shape of the face was wrong. So I definitely had my work cut out for me. I finally accepted that I wouldn't be able to completely turn it around so I made a balance between getting a little more likeness and giving it more of a feminine feel to it.




Now this is no way what I would regularly do for a portrait, so I am sorry that my first tattoo blog is something that I didn't have full control over its outcome.. But, I think overall the portrait looks better, and looks a bit more like the girl, and as feminine as I could make the picture with the features already laid out for me.

I would have to say that with the massive amounts of concentration that it took, I was completely worn out when I was finished.

If anyone shows any kind of interest in this part of my life, maybe I will start blogging more about my tattoos and post pictures of all of the ones I do since I do about 6 or 7 a week! We shall see...