Custom tattooing isn’t for the faint of heart, because one thing it does not involve is copy and paste.
Mike puts it this way:
Specializing in custom tattooing requires artistic skills like drawing (forget copying!), good taste, a great sense of balance, understanding of human anatomy, a trained eye, and a solid, well-developed technique. The same design isn’t repeatable, nor equally transferable from body to body. Just like every one of us is different in millions of ways, so are our tastes, preferences, priorities, and imagination. What excites one of us will go completely unnoticed for another. Add to it our unique body structure and muscle composition, and you can see now why a custom tattoo is the answer. Just like you don’t want to wear the wrong size clothing, or a hand-me-down wardrobe that says nothing about your personal style or identity, popular trends will be of no help in the same exact way.
Old school at heart is the best way to describe Mike and his approach. He wants you to be so in love with your tattoo that you’d want to show it off every chance you have. And he makes sure that the techniques he uses, alongside the best tattoo colors, will age well without turning into a cover-up case down the road.
This page introduces you to some of the styles Mike specializes in, like Celtic and Norse, traditional American, traditional Japanese, and his unique fusion work, infusing statement elements of one style into a completely different one, in a way that creates a statement piece tattoo while keeping the styles very recognizable.
Thinking about a custom tattoo in Austin? Fill out the form below and let’s start a conversation.
