Author: Dave Holm

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.