1st: Luca, Germany

Baby steps towards a greater performance

Hey there tattoo addicts and ink fiends,

I have recently updated my colorful portfolio and developed new sketches, drawings and fonts.
I have started my tattooing passion with my first client, Luca, who is one of my university ex classmates. He didn't want a complicated piece of art, but some birth dates of his family members. He already had one inked and he wanted three more. It took me approximately four hours with breaks to make it, but we eventually ended up like this. His first tattoo was a bit distorted, so I had to mold the new ones after his. The hand from the left image is mine, I couldn't resist after seeing the final product on his skin, so I did one for myself as well. The black ink will lose only a tiny bit of its intensity after the healing process.

Kickoff post

Hello to everybody and anybody that is out there in the continuously desperate search of hobbies, passions or simply things to do to kill your spare time.

I can assert that I until now I have found my passions through exploring. I aspired to become a tattoo artist due to my forever burning passion for Art and, especially sketchy art pieces. In drawing and painting I found that I can express and unravel myself without being restrained by any borders, but in tattooing I find that great freedom and consequently that great responsibility of creating a forever living masterpiece (Did you know that the tattoos remain impregnated on your skin 9 more months after you depart this life?).

These being said, I plucked up my courage and made an adjutant acquisition. I have two new toys: a liner tattoo gun and a shader tattoo gun. Obviously, besides these, I have the entire kit to make use of. 

This first post is mainly designated to establish a connection with you, guys, whilst I am preparing for this long and full of surprises road I have chosen to step on. And, since you are here as well, I assume you want to step on it together with me.

I am going to reveal tips&tricks that I have particularly discovered and, most important, the hidden secrets of the art of tattooing, as I am advancing and progressing in this fulfilling process.

My day-to-day sketches and future tattoos will be displayed in the emerging gallery or, if not, within a regular post.

More of my presumptive apprenticeship in the art of tattooing is there to come. Stay tuned and follow my posts to get insight of what a passion can do in your lives and how this can transform everything you were in anything you thought you couldn't be.

Don't forget to be awesome!
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