Nothing about season one was
ever repeated. My season was
the first season they limited the
time you had to draw. The other
seasons they had all night to
draw. We had a time limit to prepare the tattoo.
So when the judges said you
messed up at the drawing table,
well yea, I messed up because I
had 2 ½ hours to consult, draw
and eat before the 6 hour tattoo.
You want me to draw a fuckin
lion morphing into a human
heart, so it’s not gonna be the
greatest design with an hour and
a half to draw.
What about your childhood?
Basically, nobody has the perfect childhood. Nobody made the perfect
choices throughout life, and those choices and mistakes define us, and better us if we know how to better ourselves from those mistakes. So I wouldn’t
change anything about my past because I wouldn’t be who I am today
on that successful climb I’m on today. There’s still a climb, I’m still on that
mountain, I have tons of weights on my back but I’m still climbing that mountain because I see there is a tip and I want to get to it. It might take me 20
more years but I’m gonna work for it. There’s always another goal.
I’m just passionate about my work and traveling and meeting all these great
artists and awesome tattoo collectors. My big thing is a tattoo artist needs to
be passionate about their work. They need to care about what they do. If
You’re gonna tattoo something you aren’t passionate about you’re short
changing that client because you’re thinking about the money instead of the
art work. If not, you should be honest with the client and say that’s not for
me, no matter how much you might need the money, you are now permanently ruining that person’s skin because you didn’t put your best effort because you’re not 100% into it. If I’m not into it, I’m not doing it. I’m not short
changing myself, my work or the client.
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