Biography
I have been drawing ever since I can remember wielding a pencil pretty much. When I got into high school I had a lot of people ask me to draw tattoos for them for ideas for what they want to get tattooed. At the time I never thought it was something I could really get into because not only was it was a boy’s club, but it was something I was intimidated to get into. It was a very knit community. As I got older I was getting tattooed and I wanted to get something I was more interested in because I did draw and I didn’t think with a drawing career that you could get anywhere with it. So it was by chance that I got into tattooing. I was kind of interested in getting into it and someone who knew I could draw really well said “hey, your drawings are amazing, they would do really well as a tattoo, would you like an apprenticeship.” At the time I was looking into getting into EMS and firefighting. My house caught on fire when I was eighteen/nineteen and the firefighters went back in and saved my cat so I was really really pursuing that.
But then I got into tattooing, drawing, and decided “wow this is a lot different than I thought it would be.” It was a lot more enjoyable than I thought. I was terrified of not being able to erase something once it was on skin, but once you get the hang of it, it’s so fluent.
So that’s kind of how I got into tattooing. It’s a long story, but that’s the really compact version of it.
