/>Age: 29
Hometown: Torrance
California
Where do you now live?: Redondo Beach
California
Where would you most like to live?: Redondo
Beach California
Who was your first “hero” in life?: My
Dad
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?:
Ride bikes on the strand with my wife and Paint
What is
your favorite color?: Grey-Blue
Who (or what) do you
love?: God, Wife, Friends and Family

/>Who and/or what are some of your influences?

Art
influences are definatley old cartoons: Hanna Barbera, Warner Brothers, Disney,
Terry Toons, Ralph Bakshi, Don Bluth.. Books :The Bible, Watership Down, The
Phantom Tollbooth, Chronicles of Narnia,...Advertisement characters: Captain
Crunch..etc. Graffiti: Axis, Rygar, Anger, Plek, Werk, Deas, Esel, Potna, Poor
Al, Phobia, Lango, Casl, Natoe, Steven, Deph, Konkr,Spine, Resek, Tazer, Toshae,
Sieze, Bleek, Exist, Kofie, Vyal, Circus, and basically anyone in my crews CBS,
WAI, BASHERS, VT.  Tattoo art: Gunnar, Adam Hathorn, Nick Rodin, Cody Miller,
Jeff Page, Joe Capobianco, Matt Shamah, Sparky, Rich Cahill….
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What other artists do you most admire? 

Jeral
Tidwell, Todd Schorr, Mark Ryden, Joe Sorren, Robert Williams, Glenn Barr,
Giant, Scott Gustafson, Tony Diterlizzi, Alex Pardee, Alex Ross, Alex Gross,
Robert Bowen, Gris Grimley, Tim Burton, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Jim Henson,
Toast, Dr. Seuss. Michael Gagne, Tim Biskup, Camille Rose Garcia,... too many to
list..

How would you describe your art to someone who could not
see it?

Cartoon Otherworld.  The land under your bed
where all the monsters come from. Creepy Bedtime Stories.

/>What other talent would most like to have?

Be
able to Surf well.

What do you fear the most?
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being a failure.

What is your greatest
ambition?

To be a good husband and father like my
dad.

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