Hyperspace Studios Blog

November 16, 2018

ATTENTION!!

ATTENTION!! WE WILL BE OUT OF THE OFFICE BETWEEN 11/16 - 11/27 Please note: If you place an ORDER between 11/16 - 11/27 we WILL NOT be shipping your order until 11/28 Any questions or issues will be t...

November 15, 2018

Tattoo Edging Techniques!

Often I’ll use a combination of line weights in a piece in order to make certain elements pop out the most. In other cases, though, the goal is for something softer and with more of a sense of r...

November 7, 2018

Collaborative art print by Jon Clue and Guy Aitchison

Available this week only, ending on Friday, November 9 we are offering a limited fine art reproduction of a collaborative oil painting by Jon Clue and Guy Aitchison of their latest cosmic alien abstra...

October 31, 2018

A Backpiece Can Be Complex!

Normally when taking on a full backpiece, my first inclination is to use bold black lines- often up to a few millimeters thick- to distinguish the foreground objects and give the tattoo the graphic cl...

October 29, 2018

Incorporating Realism in a Tattoo!

Although my goal is not necessarily to be a photo-realist, I do like to incorporate elements of realism in my work, especially when wildlife or naturalistic settings are involved. At the same time, th...

October 26, 2018

Creating a Convincing Depth Effect!

With free-form organic work, part of my goal is always to create a convincing depth effect. With black and grey or muted color schemes, such as this pearlescent gray palette use here, that challenge b...

October 24, 2018

Designing Tattoos with Multiple Layers!

I love making layers in my tattoo designs, where you can get a sense of what’s in the foreground, middle ground and background, to the point where it almost seems like you could reach in and gra...

October 19, 2018

Planning Out the Tattoo's "Flow&Fit"

You all know how much I love textures, and in some cases I have to intentionally limit my use of them in order to keep a composition balanced. When my German client Uli asked me to start this epic pie...

October 11, 2018

Steve Butcher Chapter Added to Reinventing Subscription!

Nobody does focus effects like New Zealand realist Steve Butcher, who has been seizing the world's attention with his eye-popping portraits and wildlife tattoos, with his sports action portraits being...

October 1, 2018

New Website for The Bloom Project!

We want to tell you about a new and exciting website that’s just been launched for Michele's Bloom Project . You can learn more about Bloom Project here and get involved by following its daily u...

September 24, 2018

Michele's New Print Celebrating Hummingbirds!

We sure did enjoy this past summer... and one of our favorite features of summertime are the hummingbirds dashing around the yard, flashing their brilliant iridescent colors. Now they are in their fin...

September 19, 2018

Shaine Smith & Guy Aitchison Collaborative Print!

Shaine Smith is in town this week for a number of projects including this collaborative painting that he and Guy are doing. They are offering a print of this piece which will only be available until n...

September 14, 2018

Creating Depth in a Tattoo!

One of my goals with most of my work is to produce a sense of tangible depth- the more convincing the effect, the better. With Biomech work, there are sometimes two distinct layers of mech stuff, a fo...

September 12, 2018

Tattooing with Many Design Elements!

Often we find ourselves tasked with bringing together all of our client’s requests on a limited area of skin, without making the piece busy. With the above example on Julia, part of the goal was...

September 10, 2018

Design Elements for a Large Tattoo!

Large canvases such as backpieces can be great fun with all that space to design for, but this fact makes it even more crucial that you determine- Hey, which design elements get your top visual priori...

September 7, 2018

Planning a Multi-layer Tattoo

Many of the pieces I tattoo make use of multiple layers of elements, which could easily get crowded if not for some careful planning. I usually start by asking myself which elements are the highest pr...

September 5, 2018

Tattooing Smaller Pieces with Complex Multilayers!

When approaching smaller pieces, especially complex multilayered ones, I try to break the composition down into a few simple large light and dark areas that will read clearly from a distance, rather t...

August 31, 2018

Value Contrast is Important in any Tattoo!

Value contrast is important in any tattoo, where your dark and light areas form a strong visual balance... but with black and grey work, we don’t have the benefit of color to help differentiate ...

August 29, 2018

Tattooing Pos/Neg Relationships

I always try to give my tattoos as much clarity as I can by being mindful of my positive/negative relationships, which help the shading make sense to the eye, but when doing black and grey work, witho...

August 27, 2018

Tattooing Pos/Neg Relationships

The larger and more complex a design is, the more crucial it becomes that your pos/neg relationships make sense to the viewer’s eye. In this collaborative backpiece I did with New York artist Jo...

November 20, 2017

New Print Available from Guy Aitchison - Chrysalis

This week's special is an archival canvas print of Guy's latest Mind Tree painting, Chrysalis . For those familiar with Guy's Mind Tree series, Chrysalis is the next level in exploring this colorful, ...

September 8, 2017

Featured Item - Guy's Biomech Tribal Tee

We have just dropped the price on Guy's Biomech Tribal tee shirt , featuring his timeless mech style in a low-key black on grey look. It's silkscreened on a high quality fitted shirt with designs on b...

November 2, 2016

New 2016 Bloom Project Video, plus November's Limited Print

This past weekend, Michele Wortman celebrated her 18th year of tattooing by putting together a Bloom Project video portfolio showing some of her most epic work. Michele has been a quiet but persistent...

October 3, 2016

October's Limited Edition Print Available Just This Week!

Last month, we celebrated the new large format fine art printer in our office by offering a limited run print of one of my classic images. I'm continuing that tradition this month by presenting one of...