Tattooing fit me as a personality and I basically fell in love with it. I think there's a

baseline desire of having this moment in time that helps build strength, that

helps build your character, that defines what it is that's important to you.

I was always doing portraits even before I was tattooing so it was just a matter of

learning how to tattoo and learning how the machine works to translate that image into skin and works translating that education and

make it look good.

I've always been

more of a black and gray guy. I just tend to see things better in tones rather than color.

Portraits, they're a lot less forgiving than regulars images.

The likeness is really really hard to get, you know, in skin because skin is not paper,

it's elastic. You have to stretch it.

I've done

Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein. I've done a Marilyn Monroe. I did a Keith Richards one.

I'm about to do a miniature Wonder Woman today. And

I love Star Wars, you know, I've always loved it, so I've done a lot of Star Wars

portraits. I'm proud to be a geek, you know, and

I just love that kind of stuff. Design, flow,

balance, separation are factors in a good tattoo. I knew right away that this

was a career

I wanted to do and I'm really grateful.

In Japan, yeah, it was a big deal to get tattoo on you because tested on their because

it's a really really bad image but it's definitely more casual here. I like punk rock.

They use the minimum sounds to the music and then make it sound so cool. Nothing

fancy. That's how I want to do

about my tattooing, I think.

All Japanese tattoo design has a

story behind

so you have to understand the meaning of it.

I think way deeper.

If you look at all the Japanese painting nothing so bright. It's a lot of muted color with

one really bright color

so that that color stands out more than anything else.

what i'm doing is just look at them

all stephanie's any

recreate

in my way

that's already so it's nothing native of of that but

sidle up or myself at least does not my prestigious that's uh... enough

if people think that way then the fine but idleness

people's trust me to stick together and then voting so yeah i'm grateful that

it's finger

holding in the points uh... become attach your rights it's so personal

i like the simplicity about one-way and yet the challenge of a was also really

intriguing because it's so permanently

his lifelong experience with this marking time

it's important to trustee ascetic appear tend to

there's an old saying that you get the cuties positive for the person you're

supposed to get you cut it all when you come in if this is a person he was

actually a legitimate experience

like black and red light at the y collector region selected submitted to

discredit the clouds

so i think that's probably stronger color palette for me but uh... i mean

any detective you have to know how to do it all

i came about the faults and you said that with

the fact that i had a graphic design background and

my first natural instinct was to look through articulation of books that i had

on different fonts and

i love typewriter it's super simple it is well looks good for ten series

it's just a classic there is a need in us to mark ourselves in markey's levels

of power and strength flaky went way back to the start of civilization and

that's the spiritual side of the aspect of how we define ourselves or old

superiority this much further in the future of our skills half that desired

today

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a tries that something for fourteen years second seat

alright history candice process

there's a certain sold at least comes out

notable darkened hot all these different statics and styles and knowledge and so

i think that it's just a accumulation close what a great little moments in my

life