What lead you to becoming a tattoo artist?
I went to school for illustration and my professors wanted us to be well
rounded in every medium so I took oil painting classes, acrylics, digital
illustration,sculpture. I did every kind of art you can think of and I thought
in order for me to be well rounded, why not tattooing, it’s just another
medium. It’s a funny story that I say that, I got my apprenticeship at West
End Tattoo and the owner was like why do you want to be a tattoo artist?
I said I go to SCAD and I’m a pretty good artist and tattooing is just anoth-
er medium. He looked at me like “Oh, just another medium huh?” I think
he thought “I’ll show you. Just another medium, it’s more than that” so I
became an apprentice. So that’s how I got started (laughs)
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