{"id":5296,"date":"2020-07-11T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/becoming-a-tattoo-artist-apprenticeship-interview-jhonatan"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:36:25","slug":"becoming-a-tattoo-artist-apprenticeship-interview-jhonatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/becoming-a-tattoo-artist-apprenticeship-interview-jhonatan","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Tattoo Artist: Interview with Jhonatan Streetsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting out as an artist is incredibly hard. You got little to no experience and a very limited network. It&#8217;s especially hard if you&#8217;re a tattoo artist, since most people will want to see a portfolio of previous works from the person who&#8217;s about to ink them for life.<\/p>\n<p>With time, you start to improve your art, fixing the initial mistakes and learning new techniques&hellip;and suddenly more and more clients are contacting you in order to get your art engrave in their skin.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jhonatanstreetsh92\/\">Jhonatan<\/a>. He&#8217;s a Colombian tattoo artist going through apprenticeship.&nbsp;He is currently based in Barcelona and is currently mastering the art of <a href=\"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/artists?style=traditional\">Old School<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/artists?style=neotraditional\">Neotraditional<\/a> tattoos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jhonatan has been passionate about tattoos for quite some time and is now looking to get experience as a tattooist while learning new styles.<\/p>\n<h3>Check out some of Jhonatan&rsquo;s work:<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.buttercms.com\/jkvcDZgBT0iYf1KXivOr\" width=\"238\" height=\"305\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.buttercms.com\/IhSfRNAASVmdadUktIX6\" width=\"210\" height=\"305\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.buttercms.com\/c6Mlnkj0RCWYcYOMw8kX\" width=\"223\" height=\"306\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-4 col-sm-12\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/artists\/lucasm_tattoo\/tattoos\/5d422309e3db47f23106d136\"><\/a><\/div>\n<h1>Why did you decided to become a tattooist?<\/h1>\n<p>I have liked drawing and art&nbsp;since I was a child. When I was at school I used to draw quite a lot, but then I quit for some time. Most of my friends tattoo nowadays and most of the tattoos I got were made by them. They always told me that if I drew, I could tattoo so it was just a matter of putting that desire into practice and making it real.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>What are your biggest challenges currently?<\/h1>\n<p>I aspire to become a great tattoo artist. Every tattoo I do I always give my best to improve. I&#8217;d like to to learn other styles and at the same time focus on the Neotraditional, which is the style I&#8217;m most passionate about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>How are you overcoming those challenges?<\/h1>\n<p>Drawing, constantly studying the techniques and focusing completely on each tattoo I&#8217;m making.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>What would you like to tell our readers about your art?<\/h1>\n<p>It is not an easy path. It&#8217;s very long one and a lot of effort and dedication over time will bring the good results.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to follow Jhonatan on Instragram&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jhonatanstreetsh92\" rel=\"follow\" title=\"instagram of jhonatanstreetsh92\">@jhonatanstreetsh92<\/a> and show him your support.<\/p>\n<p>Did you enjoy this interview? And who would you like to see next? Make sure to request your favourite artist using <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">hello@tattooswizard.com<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spoke with Jhonatan , a Colombian apprentice tattooist, to understand the process of becoming a tattoo artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[531,530,220,158],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-becoming","tag-growing","tag-interview","tag-tattoo-artist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5760,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}