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

Alright, Joao thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Are you 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?

To make a living by marking people’s skin permanently, with a design created from your imagination is surreal. Still to this day it’s hard to believe that I’m living this dream.
The amount of respect and love I got for my clients is hard to describe. With rare exceptions I consider them to be my family.
Its so flattering to see what they go thought to get tattooed by me, they travel, they take time off from work, they hire baby sitters, they save up, some of them sacrifice other things they could do with that money to pay me to tattoo them. Honestly, I do not take it for granted and I can repeat myself enough to express my gratitude and appreciation for each one of them.

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’d like to always be remembered as someone who always gave respect to my clients. I started tattooing almost 20 years ago, What made me decide to start was the desire to not have a normal job and to walk through a lane of endless apprenticeship. What drives my discipline is the desire to one day be at the same level as my tattoo idols. I aim to reach a certain level of efficiency where the client will have a large coverage tattoo with less amount of time and suffering. My most proud achievement is my body suit ( it took me 20 years to complete it. I had to go through a lot of fear and anxiety, I never got used to the pain, it scares me, but I always face it with bravery. I believe that’s my right of passage. To inflict pain on others, one must feel what is like first, out of respect. I would never get a large tattoo by someone not tattooed nor with only a few ones. That’s howmi see it, nobody have to agree.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

It’s the interaction with the client, I always believe that I work ’with’ them. I can’t the whole credit, we create the art together, it’s teamwork. When I’m at home drawing, then yes, that’s on me, but tattooing is different in my vision, I couldn’t do it without them

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

When I started tattooing, everyone told me it would be easier because I already had some drawing basic skills, I used to draw a lot of comic characters. But in reality, this didn’t help me a lot. I had to ’relearn’ everything, reset my mind, and learn from zero because my knowledge about comics and anatomy wouldn’t take me very far, I had to learn how to think like a tattooist, not an illustrator

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.sacredgold.shop
• Instagram: @joaoboscoart

Image Credits
All pictures were took by me