We were lucky to catch up with Hunter Ditty recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Hunter thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Have you been able to earn a full-time living from your creative work? If so, can you walk us through your journey and how you made it happen? Was it like that from day one? If not, what were some of the major steps and milestones and do you think you could have sped up the process somehow knowing what you know now?

It took a very long time for me to be financially stable by just being creative and doing art. Art was always a side job while working a regular 9-5, but I always wanted more. It wasn’t until I really sat down and quit everything to solely focus on my craft and becoming the best artist that I can and once I did that things started falling into place.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am a tattoo artist from Quakertown, PA. My services include doing tattoos, touchups, coverups and anything tattoo related. My side job is doing mural artist at local businesses around my area. My work always stems from me wanting to continuously push myself to be better and to do things that people have never seen before. I want to be unique in my craft yet relevant to society and to peoples wants and needs. One of my most proud qualities is I don’t ever let a customer leave or finish my work unless their happy with the outcome and I will do everything I can to make sure of that.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

To support artists in this society and to boost a creative ecosystem is to allow chances for artists to thrive whether that be murals, graffiti or even just selling their paintings or drawings through business with customers. There’s a brewery in perkasie where they will be hosting an artist night where artists are coming with their work and they can all communicate and talk with each other about their work and their inspirations and then all the artists work will be displayed for weeks after for sale for the brewery’s customers to buy. Doing things like this will build a community for these artists and give them even more motivation to keep creating.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

When a creative creates it doesn’t come from the hand nor even the mind at times, it comes from the soul and even at times it comes from something bigger than what the artist is even aware of. To create is to have a reaction, an emotion. And with that comes the artist block where creating feels like a chore where everything you draw or create whether it’s good or bad will end up in the trash because of the lack of inspiration. So when an artist is taking longer than expected for a painting, music, custom clothes or anything creative give it time because rushing art will always create rushed art and is incomparable to art from the soul.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: hunterrditty
• Other: [email protected] (for tattoos)

Image Credits
Most pictures taken by myself my personal picture taken by Keara Pulchalski