Interview with Matteo Pasqualin
Hello Matteo Pasqualin! Thank you so much
for taking the time to do this interview. Please start
by telling us something about yourself, when did you
start doing tattoos? Since I was a kid, I spend a lot of my free time
drawing. It was 1997 when I made my first step into the
world of tattooing, after getting some advice from a
tattooist that used to work in his home, near where I
lived. My whole imprinting was self-taught.
Q: How your style changed over the years?
A: I experienced a quantum leap four years ago, shortly
after I made a tattoo by Andrea Afferni, I gave some
useful tips especially on the organizational level.
Since then I decided to dedicate myself only on realism
style. Since then I have
noticed an improvement in my technique and I finally
feel happy with my work.
Q: Favorite tattoo designs?
A: When I tattoo, portrait or realistic, I take inspiration from
pictures that have strong contrasts. I
really like dog portraits, because I really love my dogs. In my life
they play a very important role, especially Pini and Lona, my two
little dogs! I love when the design is non conventional never, seen or crazy! I
really like when the customer favors my idea, I can give them free
rein to my ideas. Also human portrait tattoos. I’ve always been inspired by the challenge
to tattoo a portrait and make it look like it’s real and listen to people say “wow”!
“It’s really him/her!”
Q: Your color tattoos are awesome. What ink brands do you use?
A: I use Panthera lack Inks doing black and grey. When I do
color tattoo, I often use Intenze or Eternal. It’s more difficult to
a color tattoo because my background is based completely
on black and grey drawing. But there’s another problem, I work near
the beach, so it’s rare to have the possibility to work on white skin.
Q: What's your biggest inspiration?
A: Strange
pictures on the web, books, magazines or else! Then I love to mix
them,
interpreting in my way! The hardest part is to sell them to the
customer... lol
Q: So the tattoo is done, what's
your favorite client's reaction?
A: The final reaction is always an emotion to me!
My favorite is when I do a memorial piece, often the
client's eyes become wet when they look at the work I've done! So I
understand that I've done a good job and
the portrait really seem to resemble the real person!
Q:
Any advice for the new artists?
A: You've got every
sort of supplies, books, tutorials on Youtube, advice from a lot of tattoo artists, Google and more!
But this kind of 'take it easy' makes you think that you
don't need to sacrifice anything at all and everyone feels like a master
after few tattoos. If you want success you need to work very hard,
ask professionals, get an apprenticeship if you can and never, ever
stop learning.