RETURN OF FARTMAN!

A Rather Large Inkling Of Ink

Hehe... so I made an appointment with Sam, finally after some mix-up with the last two appointments, and hopped my ass down to the studio this afternoon. We had a pretty decent session, and I must have bled like a cow in the abattoir.

Finally finally got the armour and part of the lotus done. Colours used for the armour: brown, red, maroon, black, grey-wash, and finally a really vibrant and solid yellow. He also did some intricate line-work on the rope for the helmet, which turned out really really good, though I'll have to wait for the swelling to go down and for the scabs to fall off before the beauty of it will surface. At first, I was really excited about the new yellow that Sam bought. It's really really solid, and will be a good colour for nu-skool tats. Hmm considering if I should get any nu-skool done on my legs. That should be interesting.

However, the yellow also turned out to be the culprit that halted the session. Sam had originally planned to use it for the second lotus, as a highlight, together with turquoise as the base colour on the outside of the petals. The turquoise, which eventually fades out to purple on the lowlights, turned out really well, although somehow my skin wasn't absorbing the colours as well as it normally does. Probably due to the amount of drinking I've been doing the past couple of weeks. But we'll leave that for the touch-ups. Back to the predicament. The yellow was so overpowering on the lotus that it stained one of the turquoise petals. Some of the ink probably seeped in, and hopefully it doesn't turn out too greenish. If it heals well enough with only a bit of staining, he could probably just touch it up with another session of turquoise. Cos of this biggie of a problem, we had to stop and wait till the turquoise heals before continuing on the yellow insides of the lotus.

Oh yes, and this yellow was so overpowering, again, that it stood out against the brown-black-grey lowlights of the face mask and maroon of the helmet. Hence, Sam toned it down with some red shades and lowlights. Interestingly enough we were wondering and discussing what to do to tone down the yellow when we noticed that somehow the blood that was oozing out managed to do the job. Hence, the red! Very cool hahahaha.

Oh well, hope everything heals well and the staining isn't too bad. It's a very dark piece I must say, considering the number of colours that he used. We basically played with all primary colours already. Very cool indeed. Pictures will be up once I manage to bother to charge the batteries for my camera, heehee.

Till next time, goodbye world!!

posted by Da Buffalo! @ 4:10 AM