Alex

Sometimes I'll come up with a design and feel it's basically the right solution for a custom piece. So I'll send it to my customer to get their thoughts on it (I value the opinion of the person getting the tattoo - first and foremost, it's going on your body, forever. And secondly, I view this as a collaboration, and customers are usually right, and offer valuable perspective where I can feel a little stuck in one viewpoint) and go from there. Other times I'll have a few ideas I think are...

Developing some ink drawing techniques for tattoo design using chinese calligraphy brushes and fountain pen

A memorial portrait for Joe - we were doing two cat portraits. I managed to get a nice photo, as this one had a chance to settle down and become less inflamed while I was working on the other. The same could not be said of the second tattoo, which needed a bit of time.