Yeah, yeah, yeah…
What I do when I wake
up is try to read all my
fan mail before I come
to work. I do about two
to three hours of reading and replying back to
emails. They tell me this
stuff. I’m always working so I don’t get to see
what everyone else is
doing. So if they don’t
tell me then I won’t really
know. So people tell me
that we influenced them
to bring more artistry
into it and stop with the
stereotypes of tattooing,
especially the urban side
of tattooing. We’re painters so you get bored
with the tattoo stuff. So
we try to incorporate our
style into more of a fine
art style. So it also introduces people who are
not into tattooing; they’ll
look at the pieces not as
tattoos but as fine art.
When they do that they
pay accordingly because it looks opposite of what everyone else is doing.
I think other people are catching onto it. The only people who are making
money in tattooing are some of the people you can recognize when you see
their style. If a tattooer doesn’t have their own style they won’t be broke,
they’ll just be competing with other artists who use that same style. So I see
the influence in that. I see more black artists trying to do freehand stuff, incorporating colors that we would use in their work. So you see the influence
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