… I never thought I’d have as many sales, or customers within a year. This shop has not made me tons of money, but it has made me have tons more confidence in myself and has given me the opportunity to show my creativity and meet awesome customers, some which have become friends.

… I’ve been at the art academy for 4 years. I struggled for a long time. Trying many different forms and materials. Eventually, I returned to drawing and realized I had been looking for alienation and a surreal, fantastical world all this time.

… I get inspired by everything, good ideas happen in all kinds of places and situations. I try to keep updated on what is going on, I like to launch products that are current or make sense or make people laugh about a specific occurrence or something from the news for instance. I browse competition very rarely but I do check Pinterest to keep up with trends and sometimes to make sure my ideas have not been other people’s ideas yet!

… I am a self-taught artist that began drawing and painting as a child. Eventually, I would start airbrushing, mostly fantasy art. However that ultimately led to custom graphics for cars, trucks, and bikes. There came a point where I was asked to airbrush portraits on vehicles and for one reason or another, this opened the door for me to get into the restoration of classic vehicles as a whole.

… I have an artsy background and I was pretty confident in my basic skills. When I needed help I recruited a graphic designer! She’s taught me a lot of the skill set in illustrator that I needed and we’re a pretty good team! When we buy new machinery there is always new learning curve as we start to figure out what it’s capable of!