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like they want something from you that so far out of your range it was comedic . Mitch Hedberg said once that “ The strangest thing about being a comedian nowadays is people are like you ’ re a comedian ? Well then right us a movie .” He said that ’ s like someone saying “ Oh you ’ re a chef ? Well then go farm .” You ’ re getting asked to do stuff so far out of your range . Especially for someone like me , my peers , I have friends who are really awesome at what they do . People would be like do this lettering for me and I ’ m like I know people that do lettering . That ’ s what they do , they specialize in lettering . In my head it beat me up because I ’ m like I know I can ’ t do it as good as that guy . So you always feel like you ’ re struggling . When you do your own stuff it ’ s like man this is what come natural . When you ’ re doing art for other people it ’ s like … I would have people asking me to do a traditional dragon and I don ’ t draw like that . So I have to spend 10 hours studying how to draw a dragon to do it properly . When you ’ re at the level of tattooing that I was at people will look at it , it could be a good tattoo but if it ’ s not done properly they will judge the hell out of it . Clients don ’ t see the kind of stuff you tend to have to deal with . It ’ s a little draining . I could do a portrait and it could be the best one in town but there are so many guys who are good at portraits if I posted it people would be like “ Dude that looks like dog shit .” They ’ ll be like you should just go do that creepy kid stuff you do . It ’ s kind of like that kind of thing . So I feel more comfortable doing me . Like if you were like I like this but can you put your own spin on it ? More so than “ I like this by that guy can you do like that ?