Yo! How's everyone doing? I just got home from my second tattoo session with George and things are coming along awesomely. He got the color in the waves done and the shading done up top, and I'm going back for 1 (maybe 2) more session(s) to finish it up in a few weeks. Here's a not-so-great preview:

I'll get some better pictures of it up when it's not puffy, bloody, and wrapped in saran wrap.

We had an awesome time on our anniversary trip to Mexico! We spent 4 nights in Maroma Beach, which is about 30 minutes south of Cancun, at this awesome, beautiful new all-inclusive resort. Included in our activities was relaxing, sippin' drinks, visiting Chichen Itza, partially fishtailing our rental car before catching some air on a speed bump, etc. It was very relaxing and beautiful! Oh, and I can't stop talking about this—I'm not a big drinker, but while in Mexico, I tried "crema de tequila", and it's very delicious. I bought myself a bottle in fact, so if you get a chance to try it, I recommend it. Check out my lady's Flickr account to see some photos of the trip.

So I want to talk about a little something else that came along with our anniversary—as a gift to my wife, I made a nice illustration for her. Illustration is something I love and I'm always inspired by, and it's always been something I wish I was much better at. Especially when I look at all the stuff that my pals Josh and Colby make—very talented both as designers and illustrators. So I got a concept in mind for something I wanted to draw for Ashley for our anniversary. The way it was in my mind was awesome (of course) but I was extremely skeptical of whether or not I could pull something off that was half way decent. Here is my first stab at my concept in my sketchbook:

Pretty awesome, right? Not. I got a little discouraged after I finished this, but I showed it to Colby, he gave me some nice tips, I took a day while Ashley was away shooting a wedding, and I was actually very happy with the end result:

I did it on this 8.5" x 11" cardboard-ish paper that I really like using Micron pens and color pencils. It's pretty close to what I had in mind, Colby's suggestions helped me get it to look a bit more polished, and—the best part—Ashley loved it! So I'm going to try to work on improving my drawing here and there, and maybe post some more stuff on here in the future.