Erico “La Bestia” Morales (1969-2021) The first time I met Erico was on my first year of tattooing professionally. Our mutual friend Dennis (who is the guitar player for Dantesco) brought him to the studio to talk about his next tattoo, of course. I was a bit anxious about it, not gonna lie, you see he was already a legend in the metal scene in Puerto Rico. He was not at all what I was expecting, don’t get me wrong he was Metal as fuck, but he also had a calming presence and after a few minutes of talking I knew I had a new friend. Fast forward a few months and tattoos were...

As some of you know I recently visited Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Comic Con. I work this convention every year now since 2014, this year I had this band called Fullminator in front of my booth and as much as I love metal I was a bit skeptical and annoyed about the idea of having a band in front of me. Just thinking about how much noise was this booth going to make all weekend on top of the regular noise gave me a headache when I was setting up on Thursday night. Boy, was I wrong. They had their latest album Crackattack playing all weekend at a decent volume, so it wasn’t at all bothersome,...

I first met Felix around 2004, ‘05 while playing miniature games at a local gaming store in Puerto Rico. At the time I had no idea he was an artist, all I knew was that he was a cool and fun dude to play with. About a year later he moved to New York, but we kept in touch every once in a while. Long story short, one day he shows me a pencil drawing he did and I was impressed. When I started learning about digital art he was the first to give me tips and links to brushes and tutorials. A few weeks ago I had the chance to see his online portfolio and although I had already seen some of amazing...

Today I want to dedicate this entry to an amazing artist and very cool person. His name is Cassidy, he goes by CJ. I met CJ a little less than a year ago when he started his apprenticeship at the tattoo studio I was working at the time. Since, we have become good friends, scratch that, great friends. CJ is fast becoming a great tattoo artist, but he was already a great artist, graphic designer and Illustrator before that, which is why We’re here today. I have learned so much in the time we’ve work together, about composition, techniques, lights and shadow and a bunch of other stuff to make...