http://mariodelgado.com Tattoo and Illustration portfolio of Mario Delgado Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:25:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the start of a full color alien attack sleeve. Based loosely on Mars Attacks. Just a couple of Aliens with their ships in the back ground blowing up the city. The sleeve will be very color driven with minimal hard lines. In the foreground I started off with three ... http://mariodelgado.com/personal-thoughts/alien-attack/ This girl came to me with an incomplete tattoo. I was apprehensive when she told me she needed it finished but when she lifter her arm I could see she needed help. She was looking for a sexy dead girl based off of a painting but it looked more like ... http://mariodelgado.com/personal-thoughts/dead-girl-resurrection/ When I decided I wanted to own my own studio I did a ton of research. I looked at other shops and drew from my past shop experiences on what worked and what didn't. One thing that is always focused on is equipment for the studio and the artists but ... http://mariodelgado.com/personal-thoughts/tatsoul-370/ So after a month of long Monday sessions. I was able to do two full wrap half sleeves. As in the previous post. The sleeves were to look like wood with his family members Initials carved into them. This is the finished product. Share This http://mariodelgado.com/personal-thoughts/good-wood-the-finale/ The tattoo no one thought could be done. I'm fortunate enough to tattoo in one of greatest tattoo city's in the world, San Francisco, It is home to some of the best artists and biggest egos coming out of the Industry. It can be just as disappointing meeting your heroes as ... http://mariodelgado.com/tattoos-under-construction/good-wood/ Same old story, " this guy got a tattoo gun and was giving out free tattoos to us high school kids." Underage cheap tattoos always end up costing more in the long run. She got the tattoo on the right when she was 15. It was supposed to be a ... http://mariodelgado.com/personal-thoughts/girl-in-a-window/ This is done on the artist Noel that works at my shop. This is a Koi Fish turning into a Dragon. It marks a transitional time in his life like the transition of the koi to dragon. The koi line work is form the new filip leu dragons flash book ... http://mariodelgado.com/personal-thoughts/dragon-koi/ This is a tree of life tattoo completed and healed. It has some deep personal meaning to her hence the word Vengeance down below where the tree grows up from. The whole tree is wrapped in a strangler fig. She wanted to make sure the tree was below any low back ... http://mariodelgado.com/personal-thoughts/vengeance/ I see a lot of praying hand tattoos done that tend to look busted or the line work is bad. When I got the chance I wanted to do a really nice pare and I think I did them justice. These represent a milestone in his life along with the ... http://mariodelgado.com/personal-thoughts/praying-hands/ This piece belongs to another very talented tattoo artist who happens to have a similar style to myself. The problem is he wasn't able to find someone to do his art the way he wanted to begin with. He drew up the piece in a fit of boredom and decided ... http://mariodelgado.com/tattoos-under-construction/skull-salvation-tattoo-fix/