Tattoo journeys ep.8. Portrait challenge

I have started to challenge myself more when it comes to tattoo practice on fakeskin.

Fur texture is considered to be one of the hardest to replicate in tattoing and the lion is amongst the toughest to represent. So I told to myself: let's try to tattoo a lion.

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Challenge accepted. With time I came to realize that I am always in competition with myself and that I can be my hardest critic as well as my best admirer. I am slowly silencing the critic and make room for more self compassion and understanding.

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I have chosen to draw my stencil by hand as it makes me more attentive to details.

I have started with the mane and I must admit that this part took me the longest in comparison with the face.

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I was so stoked to be able to finish this piece of work amongst working and other miscellaneous stuff in my life I have to deal with.

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On real skin I would need more than one session to finish this and I would probably need to cut some of the details off as on human skin it is often not necessary to put the tiniest detail in a piece.

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I will continue to challenge myself. I have felt the pungent smell of envy amongst some of my colleagues, telling me how I should not dare to try realism and to remain small, working on boring designs. I refused. I do what I want and I will not make myself small in order to accomodate other people's lack of talent. The truly talented tattoers appreciated my work, the ones who can't even draw tried to see the flaws. I am growing so much by learning how to neglect the envious people and focus on my own self growth. The mediocre people are always the loudest in the room, that's for sure.

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Wonderful lion tattoo, for sure it emanates strength and power.

Thank you!

Beautiful work

Thank you very much🤗

Greetings to all and the painting is very good and I really like it

Thank you a lot🤗

My mom always says that the empty vessels make the loudest noise and what to do? Block out the noise to prevent a headache.

This right here is very beautiful and nobody should make you think otherwise ✨

Your mom was right. I think there is a reason why we meet these people in our life. They teach us how to become more assertive, resilient and ambitious. I have discovered that dealing with envy and malice can only be like gas on fire for me: it makes me want to succeed even more. I can only say that there is surely a lot of trauma and lack of self confidence behind this type of individuals. Someone who is happy, talented and confident will always appreciate and learn from another artist. I will stay here as long as I feel I can grow. When I will feel that this place no longer suits me I will have no fear to walk away. There is a proverb about how a bird never sees her strenght because of the branch she is sitting on but because of her wings which are capable to lift her even when the branch is broken. I can fly and I am no longer attached to a place. This is something new and refreshing for me, less fear and more calm when it comes to the uncertainty of life.

Thank you for reading and for the thoughtful comment🤗

Honestly, in life, we should learn to start putting our peace of mind first. If anybody has a problem with that then the person has himself to blame. They should stop expecting people to dance to their music.

Keep soaring @creativemary. I would love to see more of this 😊✨

I think that tattoo is a special kind of art. This is not the same as creating a drawing on paper. The skin of each person has its own shade, texture, elasticity. There are so many things to consider! Of course, you know all this much better than me. You create amazing work!

It is very special. The skin texture changes everything. Tattoing the arm is different than tattoing the ribs. I love the process though because it is something new with every single design as no skin is the same

Thank you for appreciating my art🤗

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