Since I can remember I have been drawing, and dreamt of one day being a professional artist.

As a young child I was always drawing what I saw, trying to copy things as best as I could. I drew cartoon characters, plants, animals, furniture, food, etc. I made my own coloring books. I even used to draw the tattoos on my dad’s arms just by looking at him.

I didn’t ever really think about becoming a tattoo artist until after I dropped out of college and a friend asked me to tattoo him. Since I was good at art he figured I would be good at tattooing, so I tried it and fell in love with it immediately. I started with hand poking friends and posting those on Instagram until eventually strangers started contacting me to get hand poked tattoos.

During this time I started going to shops and getting tattooed. I had drawn a couple pieces I really wanted on me so I took them in and asked for them to do exactly what I drew. At this point I had no idea how tattooing worked and was upset when the artist came back with a drawing that was nothing like what I wanted. After some back and forth, I finally settled since I noticed the guy was getting annoyed with me so I felt this pressure to get his design. After that and some other not-so-great experiences in tattoo shops, I decided that I wanted to be a tattoo artist so that I could give someone exactly what they want, without making them feel pressured into a design the don’t like, or uncomfortable in any way. I wanted to make the experience fun and exciting, and comfortable enough to where you would feel like you were just hanging out with a friend.