Design tips for reeling in website visitors, whether you want them to sign up for your email newsletter, call you for a quote, or purchase your art print.

A new generation of tattooers with fine art backgrounds have been utilizing the wisdom of the masters of the painting world.

If a book deal is in the works, and you feel you are entitled to a cut of the earnings, you should seek to become a party to the publishing contract.

The one problem that exists in the tattoo world currently is the free access of online training without practical application and understanding.

What they don’t tell you is the dark side of time management — how it can make you a self-centered, freaked out, miserable troll that everyone hates.

It’s a surprise to see the instantaneous, not-well-thought-out response to residential real estate demand.

This is a prime example of something asked of an artist to be good and cheap — it is not going to be finished fast.

In Berlin, going to the movies can take you back to when the German soul was explored in film, and the venue was just as important as the film being showed.

Before the photo stage I draw comps out of my head, and once that’s locked I do a rough color study.

I sat on that plane from New York thinking about the past and an idea popped into my head.

I’m a far better illustrator than I am a psychic, so I have to be ready to make the best out of any concept.

Time and time again I had to jerry-rig materials that oughtn’t have been fastened together in order to come closer to my idea.

if you’re trying to protect something functional (like the massaging book bag pictured above), seek a utility patent.

This is not the best way to handle every client, but when you are your own boss you get to make exceptions every once in a while. Album covers take time.

Sometimes artists try to cut out all outside influences so their vision is more “pure” or “unadulterated.” That’s crazy.

When I started my first business I didn’t know a gross margin from a gross mistake.