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I like that people that fav my art will do so and i thank them for it but if you arent actually putting your own art out there to be faved or not by others, i simply view you as a collector and although i appreciate the fav, i dont really care all that much. praise from a peer is more important to me the the praise from an outsider. if you have drawn stick figures and post it here i view you as a peer and will let you know that i appreciate you fav but if you have no artwork of your own to put before all of those on this site, then to me you are nothing more then a looky lu. thanks but i want to know that what i do is appreciated by my fellow artist and that what i am doing excites, inticesses, inspires, or something to them.

thats what happens when i fav something. i do it because it affects me somehow. not that "that pretty", or "that great" or whatever dirivative you want to use.

Sorry if ive offended you and you hate me but thats how i feel and thats why i dont give thanks to those that dont create only collect. their opinion means more to me.

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The past week or so I have been going through this very uncreative lag that has been bothering the hell out of me. I know that it's from working in a tattoo shop that isn't very creative oriented. When I get to work, it seems that the last thing I want to do is draw something. Like I have anything better to do with my time. I walk through the doors and can quite literally feel the creative juices being sucked right out of me. Hopefully this drain will only last about another few days as the new shop should be opening up next Friday.

That's why I feel this trip to a much more creative environment will really help get me and my mind set back on track and where it needs to be.

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So here is my dilemma.

The first shop is just opening and would have all new equipment, a great location, I would get to see firsthand how a tattoo shop opens, possible advertising benefits, it's close to where I live, a much more creative environment. The bad side is that it's just opening so not many people will know about it, it will take awhile to get things up and running, possibly many days of doing nothing and no one to tattoo, i.e. no money coming in for what may be a long period of time.

The second shop has been around for over ten years, has a strong client base, I have made some good money in the few days I have been there and it looks like it will only get better, people are cool. The down side is that there isn't any of the equipment that I feel really helps me do my job the best that I can do it, it's an hour commute each way, it's in the getto.

So there are the main things that I'm having to consider as to which shop I will pick to work out of for the forseeable future. Now there are certain things that I know shouldn't matter but in the end really do matter more then you might think. I'm talking about the equipment. I know that someone with the best equipment in the world won't necessarily be a good artist and that a great artist can work with not so new equipment and still produce great work. My main problem is that I shouldn't have to fight the equipment or lack of it in order to make a quality tattoo. Good equipment definitely helps in producing a great tattoo because it puts me at ease while I'm working. I think any tattoo artist works best when they are calm and relaxed. Now when I produce my other art that isn't always the situation but that's a different topic.

Good thing is that I still have a few weeks to figure this whole mess out.

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make sure you/they ask for Alex "Zelo" Verdugo. Otherwise it may not happen.

Ink Slingers Domain
3962 N. Elston
Chicago, Il
773-866-2490 shop
520-548-1775 my cell

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