she believed she could....

hey wonderful people!
i was pleasantly surprised this weekend to receive an email from one of my clients...remember this tattoo design?

my original drawing

the finished piece done by sam at mermaids tattoo 

well, she finally got it and i love how it turned out! i love when clients send me pictures!! sam, my tattoo artist, actually did it and she did a wonderful job! i know she had wanted color and i typically charge extra for that so i just did the line drawing. for clients, i like just doing the line work because it allows the tattoo artist to make it their own. it is also fun to see what they add to my designs. i can't wait though to do my very first design on my first paying client, oh what an amazing day that will be!

reading this quote really hits home for me and it sheds a new light for me...it makes me so happy...if i could tell anyone a bit of advice, its to follow your dreams and believe in yourself 100%.

have a great day!
xo,
cb

a sleeve of florals

howdy everyone! we weren't able to take our poor little computer into the dr's this weekend, tom had a side project that he needed my assistance with instead. working on your day off is rubbish! rubbish, i tell you! but hopefully we can get it looked at soon and figure out what the problem is. until now blogging on the ipad isn't so bad.

i wanted to share with you today the sleeve design i have been working on. it is my first piece that the client wanted shading and color. i really love how it came out and really happy with the color and shading. it was great practice too so when i start tattooing and someone wants a tattoo designed by me and shading i know how to shade my own designs. after this i have 3 more tattoo designs to work on. one being my friends first tattoo! i am soo excited for her!!
xo,
cb

a perfect tattoo for spring and a winner!

happy thursday! today i am doing my taxes, oy vey and i hope it doesn't hurt too much but i will be happy to get them over and done with it.

i am super excited to share with you another tattoo design that was done for the wonderful and super sweet cayce. she was such a pleasure to work with and i really enjoyed drawing her something special. i always get excited when someone wants birds AND flowers!

i came up with 3 sketches for her and the first one i did she LOVED. let me tell you, tracing paper is my best friend, it makes my life so much easier because it makes it easier to sketch out an idea, is easy to erase and if i don't like something but certain elements i can just trace over what i have already done and move on to another idea.

cayce is getting the outline done on march 11th and i can not wait, as i am sure she can't either. getting tattooed is so much fun. i will for sure share it here on the blog. currently on my flickr i am putting together a portfolio so it is easier to show my work there rather then refer to blog posts. there is just never enough time in a day to get everything done!

doing all these designs is giving me the itch! i gotta make my birthday tattoo appointment asap. any furture tattoo's in your horizon?

>>>> oh and can't forget....the giveaway winner is...... ROSE! congrats girl! email me your address and we will ship off your presents!<<<<

xo,
cb

home is wherever im with you...a tattoo!!

hi and oh happiest of thursday to you all! first, off i want to thank everyone regarding my post yesterday. this community is so wonderful and i am so happy to be a part of it, thank you.

 today i am super duper excited to share with you a design i just completed. as some of you know i just recently started offering tattoo design. a bit ago the lovely larissa emailed me about getting a tattoo design.

 we discussed what she wanted, she sent me images of things she liked and then i got down to business. i did about 4-5 rough sketches of the idea i had in mind and then sent those to her to have a looksy. the last drawing i did ended up being my favorite and hers too.

 
 i was so happy. it is always so nerve racking to put yourself out there and have people view your work, even now as i am typing this i am nervous about sharing but i love doing this so much i just can't help but share.

i had so much fun designing larissa's tattoo. what i love about drawing tattoo's for others is that it opens me up to designing things that i normally wouldn't draw. as an artist we always need to be challenged otherwise we can never grow. that also goes for being just a human too, if we don't challenge ourselves we can never discover new things about ourselves.

life as an artist is an interesting and wonderful journey even with all the stress & nervous butterflies i get about expressing myself through my work it is all worth it and i wouldn't have it any other way.

xo,
cb