We were lucky to catch up with Adriana Reyes Vázquez recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Adriana , thanks for joining us today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

In my childhood, I noticed that I had a distinction for seeing things in a beautiful and aesthetic way, I paid attention to each of the details of objects or common places, for someone small what I sought was to portray them, in drawing, painting. Something like taking a “photograph” from your head and embellishing it from your essence. My mother always bought me journals to write in and I ended up scratching them with everything I saw.

Adriana , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My name is Adriana Reyes, I am from Mexico Veracruz and I am currently 20 years old. Well, I came to graphic design and the world of tattoos thanks to a constant discipline that I put on myself to improve my artistic side. Many people tell you that you are born with a gift and that is not true, you are born with interest and what is up to you is to polish your skills to a point where you can make them a business, a new point of view, but above all achieve your personal goals. The university is also a great factor of knowledge that I have, there they taught me through graphic design, that nothing is ugly or beautiful, you simply see if it is functional or not. In tattooing I try to apply the same, although here aesthetics, technique and durability are important. I try to make it functional for each client, that they like it, that they don’t just seek to replicate a tattoo they saw online but rather to put a little bit of who the individual is about.
I think that is what gives me a distinctive, I try to redesign something that a client gives me, to polish it in the best way according to their personality, their tastes, etc. I want to empathize and that they have a good experience with this, that they feel comfortable with me if I were a friend, but without losing the line of professional respect. My clients know my work, I create pointillism, bizarre, blackwork, Japanese, anime, fineline, grunge, traditional, neotraditional, etc. I am open to many styles, however the one I do the least is realism.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

the idea of ​​knowing that we all have talent, we have to learn not to obsess and believe in our abilities, not belittle ourselves. Instead of envying someone because they do a better job than us, we have to admire, improve, care about our own knowledge, see it from a better point of view than “outperforming someone” As for the material, always carry a camera, all work you do serves as a folder of evidence, take photos of your sketches, your finished and formal works. Everything works, later, thanks to that they can select the best you have for a permanent job.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I have a characteristic style for being aggressive. Not in all cases, but since I have been at university it is what I have worked on the most, both in posters, digital illustrations, tattoos, photography, etc. Despite that, I also found a totally different contrast to my style for soft illustrations for children. In my Editorial Design subject, I discovered one of my future goals. I would like to design, illustrate and create normal and interactive books for young children. With more experience and knowledge, I would also like to include an exclusive section of books with interactions for children with disabilities. I also had experience with magazines, my topic was naturist plants and it was made from scratch, taking photographs, its editorial design, grid, fonts, colorimetry. Without a doubt it was an incredible experience that I would like to repeat and dedicate myself to.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @thegrdnoftatto @scarletinthegrdn

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Adriana Reyes Vázquez