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Love or Money???

9 messages · last activity 7/20/2006

I've been a artist here in Jax.Fl. for 8 yrs and have always just loved the atmosphere...i just love the people that come into the shop with new and refreshing ideas(im about sick to my stomach w/tribal,hearts and butterflies) that i would just about do for free..i guess what i want to know is ...if you couldnt charge anymore would you still do it for the love..
Thats a given!
And if my arms were amputated tomorrow I'd learn to hold a machine with my foot and I'd be back at it in NO time!!!
Definitely!...Doc
Dude, I'm barely an aritst, let alone a tattoo artist and I would do it!!! Passion is where art begins
Dude, I'm barely an aritst, let alone a tattoo artist and I would do it!!! Passion is where art begins
OMFG why does it keep 2x posting me?!?!?!!?
straight up answer... if you ain't doing it for the love...stop doing it....the money is secondary... At least that how I feel. I spend 7 days a week, most time 16 -18 hours a day between tattooing, drawing, and working on custom ideas...the only way to not get burn't out, is to love what you do from the start. And as I wise man once told me....remember where you came from..... M
i would tattoo for free , not the daily grind shit, obviously.........not sure what i would for money though otherwise.