Ok, I know what you're thinkin, it's another damn long winded life story of some tattoo artist that was born with a pencil in his hand and was coloring on the walls in his bedroom at age seven because the Texas sun is just too frickin' hot to be out in.

A story about a kid that grew up an only child, in a house with Harley parts on the kitchen floor, going to swap meets, and seeing people getting tattooed when he wasn't even tall enough to see over the bar at the pool hall the bikers hung out at.

See more of Gene Ramirez's tattoo designs here!

You know that kid, right?

The one that went to high school just long enough to make art class after lunch, and then said 'to hell with the rest of the of it!' Having some guy that just got out of lock down, show him how to make a rotary tattoo machine because he thought this guys drawings would make really cool tats. Not having a clue as to how to do tattoos, the only 'logical' (meaning 'stupid') thing to do was find some people that would lend him some skin to practice on.

A year of trial and error, finally getting good equipment, doing enough work at a local shop to put together a portfolio of good tattoos, then hittin' it big, landing a job at Randy Adams Tattoo Studio in Fort Worth, working alongside someone who has probably forgotten more about the tattoo business than I'll ever know. Four years, several conventions, and some traveling . . .

. . . And now here I sit . . . some years later . . . opening a new studio of my own. . . and hoping like hell my flash will sell as good as the kick ass artwork that is on display here at this website!

GENE RAMIREZ