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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
13. What's the deal with all the tats? Disucss in detail.
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At 16 I started getting tattooed, I got my mothers permission to get my first tattoo and I instantly found a new obsession. I got permission from the owner of the tattoo shop to start hanging out to draw tattoo designs I liked, I would make stencils for the artists to make myself useful and I would clean the shop up to pull my weight in the shop. With my thieving skills I would get alot of art supplies and trade them for tattoo work, which worked out nice for me since I was so lazy at this point I did not maintain a normal job.
Around the time I was 18 the owner of the tattoo shop that I worked at said to me that "I was going to learn to tattoo, weather I liked it or not" The owner saw talent in me and knew I would be a good artist, so he put me on at the shop, I learned everything as fast as I could, And also started to watch another artist by the name of Jon Highland who also taught me so much. By the time I was 20 I was tattooing full time and doing alot of good stuff.. I was finally getting away from the graffiti scene because I had a great vent for my artistic interests that could not be fulfilled otherwise. And I had ALOT more to lose now if I got caught again, I became pretty well know, and had a great clientel base. It was a fun part of my life that I still really miss, and hope to one day go back to.. I still have all of my equipment and plan to eventually do something again with it.