SKIN DEEP MAGAZINE • 43other hobbies and and got super focussed on tattooing. For the last 14 years my
whole focus has been and remains the tattoo scene.
“There is so much beautiful work, so many inspiring styles and artists. I
didn’t want to stick to one style, so wanted to immerse myself in as many styles
as I could.
“I think I am still like that today.
“I now speak to Paul Booth and I have spoken to Filip, which is super cool.
Filip Leu came up and remembered one of my tattoos I was working on at the
London Tattoo Show and wanted to find out more about how I did it. I was
like—'I’m talking to one of my idols about my work!’
“My style is always evolving and growing. I constantly see things that I love
and want to learn. I always want to improve. As an example, after 14 years of
not liking to draw snakes—I really didn’t like drawing them—I committed to
evolving my style so I could really capture them. So on my last vacation to Vi-
etnam I spent hours every day learning and developing my style to improve
them. I spent hours drawing and studying snakes and really understood them
much more, studied how they move and what they were about...
“Now I love doing snakes and I’m like to clients: ‘Are you sure you don’t want
a snake?!’
“To go back to the original question though, comic books are amazing but
they are predominantly about one style. With tattoos, you have such a broad
range of styles to inspire you and it’s always changing and evolving.
“At the moment I really like the work of Brandon Herrera—he is really
A LITTLE ‘BEHIND THE
SCENES’ INDUSTRY NOD:
Having won more than 100 awards
internationally, Julian works with
other talented artists from his
studio in Munich, Germany.
Julian is a real ambassador for
Unigloves, having used Select
Black for the past 8 years. In
fact, so popular is the complete
tattoo range of products from
Unigloves that everyone working
in his studio uses them.
“I have been using the Select
Black gloves from Unigloves for
about 8 years now. Prior to using
them I had tried a lot of gloves
and am often asked to try others
but Unigloves are without doubt
my favourite gloves to wear—
both the normal style and the
long cuff gloves,” said Julian.
“We don’t just use the gloves but
the whole range here at the studio,
so every artist here uses the razors,
aprons, bed covers and cups. The
Unigloves name is renowned in
the industry as the leader which is
why we use them,” added Julian.My style is always evolving and growing. I constantly
see things that I love and want to learn. I always
want to improve.