{"id":5314,"date":"2020-04-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/how-i-became-a-tattoo-artist-interview-with-lucas-martinelli"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:36:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:36:26","slug":"how-i-became-a-tattoo-artist-interview-with-lucas-martinelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/how-i-became-a-tattoo-artist-interview-with-lucas-martinelli","title":{"rendered":"How I became a tattoo artist: Interview with Lucas Martinelli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Becoming a Tattooing Artist is not an easy task. It’s a path riddled with challenges and responsibility. One must not only be an artist, but also an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n

So, if you’re wondering what you have to do to get there, nothing better than speaking with the best and understanding their path, what inspired them and how they overcome the biggest challenges.<\/p>\n

That’s why we’ve started a new series of interviews where we chat with some of the best Tattoo Artists of today.<\/p>\n

Our first artist is Lucas Martinelli<\/a>. He is a Brazilian Tattooist specialized in Blackwork, Sketch and Geometric tattoo works. He’s a huge reference in these styles, with a follower base surpassing 100k fans throughout the world.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking to get inked by Lucas, you can find him at Most Wanted Studio<\/a> in São Paulo.<\/p>\n

Here’s some of Lucas’ work, to get you inspired:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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So Lucas, when did you decide you wanted to be a tattoo artist?<\/h1>\n

I decided that I wanted to be a tattoo artist when I went to the tattoo parlor to get my first tattoos. I would watch the tattoo artist get the tattoo and think “I can do this, it’s easy”, of course I was wrong, because when I tried to tattoo the first time I had no idea what was going on. This happened in 2013.<\/p>\n

And what steps dd you take to become one?<\/h1>\n

The steps I took to become a tattoo artist were to study drawing, I tried to tattoo and it didn’t work, so I took a step back and took a basic Tattoo course, then I started as an apprentice in a studio to get more drawing techniques and tattoo, and so I stayed for a few months until I had my first opportunity to tattoo in the studio.<\/p>\n

What challenges did you face on those steps?<\/h1>\n

The biggest challenge in the beginning was to stay focused so as not to give up, because in the period when I was an apprentice my only payment was to learn, I often thought I needed to work to earn money and pay my bills, so either I would give up or try to the maximum to become a tattoo artist as fast as possible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Make sure to follow Lucas on Instragram @lucasm_tattoo<\/a> and show your love for his art.<\/p>\n

Did you enjoy this interview? And who would you like to see next? Make sure to request your favourite artist using hello@tattooswizard.com<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spoke with Lucas, a Brazilian master tattooist, to understand HOW and WHY he became a tattoo artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[530,220,158],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-growing","tag-interview","tag-tattoo-artist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","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=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tattooswizard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}