Steve is hardcore. When i met him for his consultation, i realized that he wasn’t messing around. After discussing his sleeve, he set up appointments every two weeks to complete the project. All of his appointments were 6ish hours long (except the one which i had to end the appointment early). Every session is a [...]

Nick is a diver. He is an instructor at Skydive Perris. He also enjoys recreational scubadiving. When he approached me about his sleeve, he wanted there not to be a water to sky separation. Collaborating with him on imagery, there were specifics to the tattoo. The skydivers are competitive formation divers. When the tattoo was [...]

When the  economy tanked i sepnt all my energy and focus on work. The blogging in my life was not somthing that i needed to worry about. It’s been a long time since i’ve posted anything. My apologies to anyone who cares. We decided to shut down Che Studios for many reasons, and in March [...]

I have a hard time remembering everyone’s name. Jeremey 7 is the way i recognized him for a long time, before we became scuba diving buddies. Jeremy had the vision of doing a sleeve of the 7 deadly sins. This was a challenging sleeve, due to the fact that it’s hard to represent some of [...]

I don’t remember when we started or finished Mike’s sleeve. It’s been that long (i think we finished it 2008-2009). Mike is the reason i got my first job at a tattoo parlor. We were tattooing at the same time, and he mentioned to me that there was a shop hiring down the street from [...]

Milissa’s sleeve was completed in October of 2009. When she came to me with the idea of the sleeve, i had a few stipulations. I wanted the whole piece to look as if the person staring  at the arm got a worms eye view of the faerie world.  This gave the perspective that the flowers at the [...]