This is my Kung Fu.

When I started this I didn’t know what to say or how to say it.
I do know, however, what I want to show you.
So I think I will start with that.

Animation:
Animation is my first love. Once I found out it was hand drawn, I wanted to learn more.
My older sister was taking art classes and I learned a lot by watching her draw.

Comic Books:
My next step was to draw what I saw in comic books. Later on I learned how to draw what I saw in life.

Movies:
Kung fu films, James Bond movies, and break dancing fueled my creativity like you wouldn’t believe. They opened my mind to the possibilities of the amazing, as well as keeping me fit.

Music:
My older sister was a gymnast and ballet dancer.
She was also into popping because she was a big time Michel Jackson fan.
Whenever my sister went to ballet class or to gymnastics, she had to take me with her so I learned at an early age how demanding dance is on the body. As I sat on the floor, off to the side in the dance studio or the gymnasium, I could not help but see how much her classes were like the teachings of Kung fu from Shaolin (not to say that my sister and her class mates looked like bald men). The discipline was there. The focus was there. It was in the way they stood before their teacher; the way the teacher would walk around them looking over each student, rhythmically pounding her bamboo stick on the wooden floor.

Painting:
Learning to paint opened me up to self-expression, focus, patience, and the understanding of color. This is where a lot of my earlier techniques came together as one.

Tattoos:
This was by far one of the hardest skills for me to learn. It not only helped me understand myself, it helped me understand others. The skin is unlike paper or canvas. I learned how to finesse a pencil, I learned how to finesse a brush, and now I share my skills with others using my finesse with a dancing needle to transfer their mind’s images onto their skin.

As I grow older I learn more and became better.
Here I will share with you my understanding and growth within these arts.
I like to consider these arts my Kung Fu.