She’s Possessed to Skate

Some stiff competition in tattooland today.

Gerry put up a fun challenge to the shop: everyone takes the same flash (pictured left) as a starting point and has to re-draw it, adding their own twist, no looking at each other's drawing! It was great to see what everyone came up with and, despite starting with the same image, amazing how each interpretation is unmistakably that of its creator.

Since the original was a Mexican gal I figured I'd take it down the ol' black and grey route turning her into a female Mike Muir of sorts. Speaking of black and grey, during my trip to the 30th Anniversary National Tattoo Convention in North Carolina I had a chance to see the mind-bendingly rad tattoos being done by Jose Lopez. So smooth. He sets that bar real damn high. Intimidated but stoked with Lopez' work in my mind, I went on and gave the black and grey painting a go anyway.

In the end I framed my little skate rock cholita with some lettering to tie it all together while paying homage to one of the greatest skate rock tunes, Suicidal Tendencies' "Possessed to Skate".

Check her out. Lemme know what you think. Her boobs are 100% natural, by the way.

Perhaps in keeping with the whole Movember movement, Bryan busted out a lovely mustachio'd babe of his own.