I came late to the world of tattoos. My first was in 2013. I was 50 years old. It was a tattoo of my son's portrait. Since my son has passed away in 2012 at the age of 20, this tattoo had to be good. ... Read More
I came late to the world of tattoos. My first was in 2013. I was 50 years old. It was a tattoo of my son's portrait. Since my son has passed away in 2012 at the age of 20, this tattoo had to be good. My son had gotten several tattoos from Bob Z and I had always thought they were good work. So it naturally made sense -- for several reasons -- to ask Bob Z to do this important piece of work. Well, the results were amazing. Bob Z has talent. Not only was my tattoo memorable, but even now people, complete strangers, come up to me and remark how my son's image actually looks like, well, a real person! The lines are clean, the shading is realistic, and the image has all the depth and resonance that I could have ever asked for in a portrait piece. But what really set Bob Z apart was his heart. He has a terrific "bed side manner," if you know what I mean. And his heart shows in his pieces. There is something that sets his work apart from many other artists, and I think it's an intangible quality that might only best be described as love. Bob Z loves what he does, and he loves his clients. That quality shows in his designs and execution. Since that first tattoo, I have asked Bob Z to apply two more pieces. Each time, I consulted with him about broad concepts I had in mind. I'm not an artist, so I left the design up to him. He continued to impress me with his design choices. He was able to take my raw ideas and come up with a tattoo design that blew my mind with its placing, spacing, shading, storytelling, and beauty. People who have never had a tattoo always ask me, "Did it hurt?" Well, yes! Tattoos are NOT a pain-free experience! However, to me, pain is part of the creative process. In the same way that I understand women experience pain in the birth of a child and then soon exchange memories of the pain for the wonderful gift it produced, so too my tattoos have been created during a painful process, and yet the pain fades immediately and the remaining result is a thing of permanent beauty and love, a new part of me. All that to say that Bob Z is a master tattoo artist whose work will satisfy for years after the pain of the process has faded. I highly recommend Bob Z! Read Less