Pin Up Queen/ Sabina Kelly

This is a flick from the vault. She came thru and got her knuckles blasted.
-SA Studios

Olvera St./Old Memories C.C.

Here are a few flicks I just found from the Old Memories C.C. car show a couple weeks back. This car show is Dope. This is the second year that its been held here. They blocked off the streets and low lows were layed out.... -Sal

Loyal To the Game..

This is Ruben B. who came into the studio with no Tats and a gang of ideas... He wanted to pay homage to the Phillipines. As you can see he has done plenty of research and knows what he wants. "That.. goes a long way." He blasted the islands on his ribs on his back is a Phillipine princess and icons of the culture surrounding her. Mix that with Cartoons signature style and you have just invested in a one of Kind piece of art. Ruben has since been back numerous times and is covering ground.
"Loyalty is a good Quality to posess" -Sal

SA Studios Archives

I was going thru Estevans archives and ran into this. This is the piece that Cartoon did for "The Vader Project" last May. Look out for what I find next week.... -Sal

ICE CREAM!!

Today was the last day that the Ice Cream Truck was at the Petersen Automotive Museum. It was at the museum for 8 months and during those 8 months Cartoon did 13 outreaches to at risk kids. The gift of giving back... A tribute to the history of Lowriding was a great thing to have in a museum. I want to congratulate everyone who had the chance to go out and experience history. Today was all about that history too. I never knew a something could Lowride so hard on the back of a flatbed. We went down Fairfax took it down Melrose Real SLOW so everyone could catch an eye full. Here are a couple flicks. If you didnt catch it at the museum Dont Trip! Cause you just might catch it at you local HOOD Car Show... -Sal

An Animated Tattoo?

I get the creeps watching this thing crawl up her back....I can feel it. What would a tattoo feel like crawling through your skin any ways? It would be wonderful to be able to animate a tattoo, but I think I will have to wait until people are outfitted with bio-mechanical flesh surfaces, that could be imprinted electronically in layers, like those old fashioned 3D pictures that animate as you move past them.....

I created the animating designs in Adobe AfterEffects, using a popular plugin called Trapcode Particular. I simulated the writhing particle strands first and then mirrored them to create the symmetrical design crawling up the woman's back.

Luminous Feathered Palm Queen of the Sassafrass Islands

These inkblot tattoo designs were created in Adobe Photoshop, drawing freehand on a Cintiq tablet.

Although these 'inkblot' designs would be difficult to replicate exactly using a tattoo machine, I am thinking that with some practice, I could get to a point where I would be able to tattoo these designs onto someone's body pretty accurately. I think they would look fantastic as decorative tattoos. I originally created these designs for a film director and producer team, who are creating a movie that features a woman whose tattoos come to life. These were the preliminary designs that I came up with....