To me, figure drawing is extremely important. If you can draw the human body in every pose, you can basically draw anything. Hands and feet, everyone seems to fuck up. Yeah, nude, I don’t think I have ever had a class where it wasn’t a nude model.
He immediately infused me with traditional values in terms of machine building and tattoo history. I vividly remember him asking me about Coleman one day, and when I didn’t know who that was, he got so upset he literally walked away mid-conversation. “A generation of tattooers who don’t know Coleman… it finally happened,” he said.