My Son Jeremie's SoundWave Backpiece

My son Jeremie said he wanted me to do a tattoo for him years ago...

And I finally got the opportunity just the other day.

Jeremie wanted something for his back

that would incorporate a sound wave design from 

a sound editing software interface, blending in with 

my own unique splash designs.

So I started messing around with this idea....

And as I cleaned it up Jeremie said he really liked it.

So I reworked it and made the sound wave look 

more like the actual thing, whereas in the first one I had 

stylized it quite a bit. Then I traced it onto a stencil...

And put it on Jer's back..

Soon the black ink lines were going in sweetly...

After day one, and about 5 hours, we had all the black and grey

line and shading work done...

And by the end of day two and another 6 hours, we had the finished product

After the whole process was said and done

it looked pretty close to the original! 

Here is the comparison between the photoshopped version I initially

put together to show what Jeremie what it would look like.

I made some conscious decisions to change/add certain things

her and there, but I am happy with how much it got to the look 

of the original drawing...

Jermie and I had an incredible time the last few days, 

chilling out and spending some seriously quality time together.

Jeremie's new backpiece goes very well colour-wise 

and stylistically with both of his shoulder tattoos.