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geez-la-weez!! how long can i wait to do a post?? haha… sorry guys, been busy with art for art shows, a full work schedule, searching for a place to move to, studying, and i have been sick a few days lately which was putting off the new post even longer… so needless to say this post will be pretty long, haha… hopefully worth the wait… get ready for a bunch of stuff!!!
here’s a color snap from a zombie 7/8 sleever i have been working on… this is kind of an old picture seeing as how the top is almost all colored now… but this is the only one i could find at the moment, so this is all you get…
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another outdated picture, hahaha… this is from a big day of the dead sleever i just finished up last week actually… didn’t take any pics because on my phone you just wouldn’t see the grandeur of the whole thing, ya know? plus i am waiting for my buddy scott to get back from Cananadadada so he can professionally shoot 3 finished sleeves and a soon to be finished backpiece… oh yes, they’re coming soon… this is one of them…
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can’t remember if you saw this one already or not… huge rib piece of a conjoined fetal skeleton holding a stitched together heart with roses and calla lilies… i think she’s coming back soon so i can get a full healed shot… when i do it will be posted in the galleries…
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here is a giant thigh piece i started a while back… this one is near completion. i think this is the most recent shot of it, actually… we still have the rosary to color and her hair… then we are gonna frame it in with a bunch or roses, it’s gonna be killer… we finished up her shin piece as well… there will be pics of that in the galleries soon. you might remember, its the 2 pin ups in the graveyard… one’s a zombie and the other is a day of the dead girl? ah… you’ll see later…
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here’s a drawing i did of a samurai fighting a giant snake… it’s for a half sleever i started a while back… not sure i have a shot of it because it was just the line work… the drawing came out good though! had to draw it a ton of times because the collector changed his ideas a few times during the art process… not my favorite scenario, but the piece came out great so the ends justify the means, you know?
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here we have a skull wearing a spartan helmet and some blood! this was a cover up of a spartan shield that was super light, which made it really easy to cover… we’re gonna add a ton more spartan stuff to his whole arm so stay tuned for that!
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yummmm!
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got my axe head chromed… now i have an axe just like dude from American Psycho! admit it, you’re jealous….
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here’s a huge forearm piece i started on my friend… giant squid attacking an “old old wooden ship” with the banner reading “hold fast”… just the line work this time around… shading to follow in just a few weeks… can’t wait for this one! gonna be epic!
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close up of a black and gray piece i did… the other pictures came out shitty so this is the only one you get for now…
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a sketch i did for an upcoming sleever project… took a few hours… mainly because i was trying to figure out flow… either way, the drawing came out cool… wait till you see it when i start it as a sleeve!
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i knew it!!
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here’s a sweet owl tattoo i started a while back and just recently colored part of… on the branch above this owl is another perched owl with a rat in its mouth… but it’s not colored yet… we’re also gonna add some background and color some surrounding stuff and blah blah… you’ll see more in a few weeks when i finish it!
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here’s a big shaded upper section of a full sleeve i started a month or two back… there’s a pic somewhere down the blog of the lower half… it’s a sleever of snakes, skulls, and california poppy flowers… still in the shading phase… two more before color starts… this was only the 3rd session and it was only 2 hours… pretty awesome!
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here’s a rad upper back piece i just finished up… the lights washed the pic out pretty good but again, these are just for the blog so i use my phone… this was two sessions. one was lining and shading, and this one was all color… hibiscus flowers, plumeria, calla lilies, and scottish heather… came out great and she sat like a champ!!! better pics will be taken when it’s all fully healed (which should be soon) and it will be in the galleries soon!
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got tattooed again by my good buddy Adam Hathorn over at my old alma matter, Guru Tattoo! it’s a fist clenching a reclaimed soviet AK-47 with a crossed out “CCCP” and a banner that reads “WOLVERINES” in honor of Red Dawn (the original of course)… if you have not seen Red Dawn, and are around my age… you simply are NOT a man… hahaha. you need to see that flick! it was actually the first movie i ever saw in a movie theater as a kid… i saw it with my brother and the movie reels messed up right when the russians were parachuting into the school… we had to wait like 20 minutes before we could go back in… crazy i remember that! anyway, if you are in the SD area, you should definitely go by Guru Tattoo and see the shop and the amazing line-up of artists including the amazing Adam Hathorn…
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sketch for a tattoo i just did a few days ago….. pics to come later… the ones i took miraculously deleted themselves…. but the drawing is sweet… i think, anyway…
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here’s a color portrait-esque piece i did on my friend… it’s a memorial for his dog Indy that passed away recently… there are crossed syringes (indy had the diabetus) and a chew ball with bat wings below it, and a banner with “INDY” above it. as you can see i added a pink collar with spikes at his request… the lights washed out the printout, but the look pretty damn close if you ask me… definitely one of the hardest ones i’ve ever had to do… normally i do illustrative stuff… this was a lot of fun, though… stay tuned for the finished product…
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oh shit! here are some pics i took of that full sleeve! of course the phone doesn’t do it justice but you can kind of see where i am going with this thing… i promise, when my buddy gets back we’re gonna take really good shots of all these finished sleeves and backs…
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here’s a sweet pulp style tattoo i started about a month ago… this is the shading session… a dead scantily clad angel with a bloody handed suited silhouette in the doorway… this piece will be color, so stay tuned for that!
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here is a sweet ditch tattoo i started a few days ago to bridge between the seance piece i posted a while back and a dagger and heart i did a while back but i don’t think i have pictures of… anyway, this is just line work… this took a while man… ditch tattoos are a bit delicate as it’s pretty easy to blow out a line… we’re hoping to have it shaded and colored in the next session… we’ll see…
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here is a drawing i finished today for a piece i am gonna start friday… this in an entire leg from the knee down with the exception of a piece on the back of the calf that i will be tying into… gonna be a lot of line work to start and cross the shin and all that fun stuff… we’ll see how he takes it! hahahaha lot of fun to draw though… took a while to figure out the layout since he wanted 4 skulls specifically, roses, and a banner that reads “Angela”… took a while to get the right placement, but i think it came out great.
that’s it for this time, i promise i will post at LEAST once a week!
and if you haven’t already done so, go get the new DANZIG album “Deth Red Sabaoth”… easily his best album since the original line-up… anyone who knows me knows how much of a DANZIG fan i am, so i might be a bit biased, haha… seriously though, this album is damn good!
that’s all for now, i am tired… it’s nearly 3am…
TURK
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