to bring them in and show that Photoshop is not such a scary thing.
No, not at all, that’s pretty cool. I definitely use Photoshop for pretty much everything I
do, from my painting to tattooing, the design process is half the battle, its more than half
the battle, your getting everything worked out there, its all mapped out, so that technically speaking all your doing is physically rendering it. There’s nothing worse than to be
in something and devoting all this time to it and to be stuck in a place where your not
sure how an aspect of it is going to work out or not, so I do work it out 100% of the way
digitally before hand. All my tattoos, photographing the body and rending all the work
digitally on top of the clients body so they can see how it will function at the proportions
that it will be and the thing flips on like a glove, there’s no guess work at all. Same thing
with my paintings.
The piece you did with Leah Jung, will that be with you that day?
Yes, that’s going to be the piece that the whole seminar will be based on. It’s all called
“Beauty and Truth, Not forgotten”. The concept of the piece is these two figures are the
embodiment of Beauty and Truth in our current age being largely deceased, they are like
ghosts in our time, they have been autopsied, they’ve been examined, and kind of cast
aside, but not forgotten. It’s kind of like foreshadowing, it’s my hopefulness for a kind of
renaissance, or an appreciation for things that matter in a new time to come. I feel like so
much of everything, every industry, from things creative like film, music and art are just
so watered down because of corporate constraints and corporate formulas, and it’s all
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