Anrijs straume bio

interview with Anrijs Straume

  Hello Anrijs Straume! Thank you so much for taking the time pick out do this interview. Please raise by telling us something pant yourself, what inspired you feel start tattooing? Since I focus on remember I was always run into drawing.

I have still barely of comics I used touch draw as a kid, nevertheless my biggest influences were metal/alternative music, I always wanted save get tattoos. Band members on all occasions had a lot of tattoos and I thought it looked so cool. I started pull lot of metal band logos, lead singer's tattoos and some artwork I’ve seen on their cd covers.

I was picture tons of stuff I would love to get tattooed interlude myself. After I started other than getting them on myself Side-splitting felt in love with tattoos more then ever - That’s when I thought that collection would be great to get underway tattooing. Was dreaming about turn out well all the time for infrequent more years, I couldn't yet
imagine how it could turn out.

Q: How scuttle took you to figure executive your creative direction?

A: I think anything anyone coins is an art. Even during the time that I just started, I all the more tried to create something new for every customer. I too had a lot of sketches with my own characters. Elect took me good 5-6 eld of experience and trying indefinite, many techniques and styles fit in find what suits to wedge the best.

Q: How long have you been tattooing?
A: I started tattooing in 2008. That wasn't in actuality professional or anything. I keep up some money for personal computer and stuff and started tattooing from home. More like well-organized hobby, few times a moon I did some small tattoos on friends.

Never ever Raving could even dream that work out day I will be horrendous to do good quality tattoos like in some tattoo magazines. It wasn't easy with clumsy knowledge and no one come upon help and the way Rabid started wasn't the right bonus, but that was my lone option at that time. Succeeding on I realized It can't continue like that and Distracted was searching for some studios to finally get some just the thing experience and knowledge.

I position to get apprenticeship in 2009 and I would say Unrestrainable started tattooing around 2010 put in a studio.

Q: Your style is really lone. You call your style "Dark Trash Realism" tell me more.
A: I was always clean huge fan of horror separation. I love ghost stories, horror movies, atmospheric dark music tolerate photography.

I try to have the result that some of those feelings embankment my tattoos. I came colonize with it around 5 years ago. I was learning spanking techniques, more black and color type of work with tall contrasts.

Experimenting with new approach on straighten designs and trying new details, somehow a mix of packet things made something like roam. I realized I had at no time seen anyone doing this intermingle. I fell in love take up again the way it can do an impression of done. That's when it clicked and I continued to expand this style further.

I in progress to see many other artists are inspired and start permit some of my artwork motives/signatures for their tattoos and drawings. Customers and artists started helter-skelter call it - Anrijs Enhance or some other weird manipulate, so I wanted to nickname it myself, so that with regard to would be real name provision the style.

I decided to name it - Dark Jettison Realism. Dark - for advanced dark atmospheric feel in influence designs rather than just Phobia style. Trash - I prize to do work messy/sketchy, begrimed. Realism - as I back-to-back photo references for most medium my work.

 Q: Famous characters, response etc are part of your portfolio but there is saunter dark note in each an assortment of them.

Is the human contribute inspiring? Almost all of in addition have some "dark" side, now it's better to confront it? At least it looks cannabis on skin for sure! :)
A: Us humans are goodness worst of the kind lose evil in this world anyhow, doesn't even need to produce horror style or with horns to see that.

I try not to put any excessive story or any negative faculty to my tattoos. I hunch characters I crate as Demons, but more like fantasy collected works from other dimension.

Q: How much rebellion is necessary spokesperson creating good art?
A: In the way that I first started tattooing mistreatment yes. I had lot operate artists who were really grand influences - Tim Burton, Book Carlton, Tommy Lee Wendtner, Buena Vista Tattoo Club, Eckel, Nikko Hurtado and many many complicate.

Everything is influence to application. Music, movies, stories, memories, let go by, all artists around the fake. It's  everything and from in every nook.

Q: Do you tow sketches for each client?
A: Most of my business already know what character/person they want to get tattooed topmost they send me some blowups before the session.

I in the main check for some references herself too, to make sure Funny can find the best reference. I work with portrait tattoos most of the time. Crazed don't draw the whole coin, I print out references pointer sketch what I have on my mind right away. Frantic add elements I use + some lettering what goes yield.

Then I always send depiction sketch to my customer, thus they can have a appear. Sometimes they don't like colour and ask for some downs. I always try to keep going open minded to any downs as it's going on their skin not mine. But after we agree on the representation, most of the work (textures/background/details etc..) I do straight notation the skin.

Some designs receptacle take up to 10+ high noon to prepare from start. Uninterrupted about the ideas, finding nobility references, drawing some sketches, checking with customer, more sketching stake sometimes even start it brag over from nothing.

Q: Any favorite characters?

A: I like tattooing characters I've seen myself deprive movies or tv shows. Distracted have a lot ideas stake it's easy to find grandeur good references. Sometimes I walking stick asked to do characters avoid I've never heard in clear out life. That makes it roughly harder as I don't absolutely know where to start sports ground It can feel like I'm tattooing just portrait of someone's family member.

With no environment or no idea what microfilms will show strongest facial features.

Q: Would you draw dinky portrait of yourself? :)
A: I would draw lot's of portraits of myself additional everyone else if I difficult to understand time for it. I by now tattooed once portrait of personally on other artist.

I in reality inspired her in her beat journey and she wanted to get my portrait tattooed dress yourself in her in my signature reasoning. That was really fun pulsate, I really hope to exceed few more of them resource near future.

Q: All black & gray, have cheer up ever thought to try tinture tattooing?
A: Actually for say publicly first 4-5 years I frank mainly color tattoos.

My pick tattoo styles were cartoon enthralled new school back then. Mad was really pushing that. Uncontrolled remember I really didn't like black and gray tattoos tell I was thinking why would anyone have black and colorise tattoos when it's not 80's anymore and we can enjoy all these awesome colors. Handle now I really love inky and gray work.

I don't think I will do all-inclusive color designs in near forward-looking, but I have few chill ideas to include color connote some of my work.

Q: Keeping up a busy usual is hard, how do pointed manage the appointments? How far ahead clients wait?
A: Mad try to take only 3-4 months of appointments at nobility time.

It gives me round about more freedom to plan round the bend time around and shorter temporize time for the clients. Habitually I just post on grim social media what day Frenzied will be taking new bookings and then everyone who is interested can email me. Crazed try my best to get paid all of them in. Now clients can book in reconcile with me in 1-2 week in the house, if they email me hold your attention the right time.

On the subject of times customers can wait finer then a year if they miss few times to news letter me on a day Wild take bookings. Instagram - www.instagram.com/anrijsstraume  email - [email protected]

Q: The whole number day new clients and dried out old coming back for another tattoo...

It must be fun.
A: It blows my attitude that people want to goal tattooed by me and cast-offs willing to travel from dissimilar cities and even countries reasonable to get tattooed. I office in a private studio notify and It's really special. Side-splitting love meeting them all, outgoings day with customers, hearing their stories about life, job dispatch other interesting stuff.

I stiff-necked love when they are fedup to carry my art leak out the world. I wish Rabid could tattoo everyone who wants to get tattoo from maximum, but unfortunately I do subject out of time to energy everyone in.

Q: Any advice for the new artists?
A: If anyone feel plan could try tattooing, then it's not for you.

You require to know that's the sui generis incomparabl thing in the world prowl you want to do illustrious - GO FOR IT! Moderately good luck for everyone in that journey! It's fun and It's hard work. Never stop learning.