We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Daisy Orellana. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Daisy below.

Daisy, appreciate you joining us today. Do you wish you had started sooner?

When i turned 25 was when i really decided to commit to becoming a tattoo artist. The learning process has taken a long time and i’m learning every day and i love and enjoy it so much but initially i had a lot of doubts about it because of how much i wish i started my path earlier in life. It really hindered my progress and confidence in myself the more i felt like i was spiraling and overthinking how i did everything so “late”. But at a certain point I realized that i’m follow some made up timeline that i’ve set myself up with in a very self sabotaging way. Who cares what age i decide i know what i want to do on my life. i spend a lot of time trying to figure out what i wanted to do with my life, i always knew whatever it was i wanted it to be art centered and if i had to wait till i was 25 to figure out what i was meant to do then so be it, the universe wanted me to wait until this very moment because that’s when it was meant to come to me.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am someone who is very emotionally attached to my craft. it’s a big part of me and the way i feel best about putting myself forward. Before i am anything else, i am an illustrator. i’ve loved drawing and painting since i was really young. i remember reading scary stories to tell in the dark and realizing this what i want to do, i want to be a story teller and invent my own creatures and lore and monsters. i am very inspired by fae, horror, folklore, oddity etc! i love believing there’s little bits of magic around us and bringing it alive with my art! learning that i wanted to tattoo was something i always was interested in but it just seemed far fetched to me! i couldn’t even wrap my head around it until my mentor asked if i’d ever be interested in learning. i could not even prepare myself to understand how much i would love it now. and knowing people like my art enough to want it on them permanently is my greatest treasure!

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

i have small goals within my career but no end goal, i’m never going to know everything about my craft, there is always something new i will get to learn! and that alone motivates me so much. i LOVE to learn so knowing that there is always something new i can discover after feeling confident in learning something makes me so excited to put everything into my craft.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

i think the time and mental toll it takes! sometimes this shit is exhausting lol. don’t get me wrong, i wouldn’t want to do anything else but at the end of the day i’m human, not a machine. i can’t produce things at the snap of anyone’s fingers. i feel like now that everything is at our fingertips and easily accessible, people forget that and ask a lot from artists. sometimes i swear there is not a thing going on in my head, completely smoothbrained lol and in those moments it’s very hard and discouraging to try to conisistently create!

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