Well I drew this design up about a month ago and have been wanting to tattoo it on myself ever since..

It started off as just a clover tattoo above my knee. always wanted a clover tattoo since my birthday is on st. patricks day
and then I seem to have a fetish for gas mask lately so I figured why not throw a skull with a gas mask in there.. make the tattoo have a toxic background and throw
some tribal on the skull..

this is what the background will look like when Im done hopefully...



This is what the skull and clover will look like once colored in..



So tonight I started on it.. I figured I'd go in and do the line work tonight.. fill in the tribal.. going to let that heal up and then
will start working on the coloring.



I was using a 5RL and a 7mag for the fill.. (7mag was not the best choice.. should have went with a 5RS.. think I would have had better results)

Im happy with it being my 3rd peice.. but honestly I think I could have done soo much better.. I was having problems keeping the skin stretched.
and in some places I would be pulling a line and would actually be moving my hand towards the hand that was stretching the skin which in return made me kinda compress the skin together..

I was really thinking that my thigh would be a easy place for me to practice and would give me a chance to really get into it and bust this one out.. but I was having a very hard time.. I found it hard to see as well..

I know I know excusses, excusses.. but Im just sharing my experince with you all..

Im kinda bummed it didnt come out alot better then it did cause I was really proud of myself with this design..

Its going to need touch ups and Im really sure that once I do the color work it will hide some of the mistakes and make it look that much better..

about half way through the design I took a break cause my kneck was killing me from benind over to see.. and man I almost passed out when I stood up.. I was sooooo light headed from all the blood that had rushed to my head I assume.. So I took a nice break.. walked around a bit, grabbed a glass of pop and a peice of candy and went back at it..

Ive come to the conclusion that I need a better light source ASAP.. definitely before doing another tattoo.

Im kinda bummed out cause like I said I feel like I should have done better.. Im going to get back at tattooing druit and pig every single day.. I stopped tattooing that stuff daily and was only doing a peice here and there.. and instead have been drawing..

so lets hear it..