
The Larger the tattoo, the bigger the responsibility. When I approach a large tattoo, this is when I’m glad I like drawing, because the larger the tattoo, the more you will need to deal with the human body. The human body curves a lot, so the drawing will have to follow the human body shape in proportion. Dealing with the human body is a big part of tattooing, specially when bringing a design from one part of the body to another. An example of that, is bringing the head of a dragon from the chest to the arm, to make a dragon flow from the chest to the arm, in proportion, and make it believable, it takes a lot of time of practising in the drawing board. A lot of tattoo artists who don’t draw, they can do a really nice single tattoo, A4 or A3 size, however, when they approach a large tattoo, where they have to deal with the human body, and flow the design from one part of the body to another, that’s when you will see the drawing will not flow as it should in the body, due to lack of understanding of proportion in the drawing. Of course not everyone will have the eye to see that, that’s why if a tattoo artist don’t draw, they still are going to have work, because not everyone understands proportion. And I think that’s all good, as you have to get tattooed with who you resonate with, and everyone has a different perception about everything they see. I love art in general, I love to draw and paint outside of tattooing, I’m interested in many different forms of art, and in those 15 years of tattooing and exploring different forms of art, the biggest lesson I had is that, the drawing is the foundation of all types of art, painting, sculpture, video-games, without a foundation of the drawing, all kinds of art is not possible, so that’s why I have to ask you, how can someone be an artist if they don’t draw?
