I'm excited to announce I'll be applying for tattoo apprenticeships in Fall 2026!
If you know me pretty well and are like, "wait, Jenn, what??" I totally get it. I also never thought I could be a viable fit in the tattoo industry because I'm just a book nerd with hay allergies and social anxiety.
But I'm doin it, guys!
My favorite art medium is acrylic paint, and that's what most of my portfolio is composed of — for now. I'm working on a ton of fine line floral designs and will post a batch of them in September.
But I hope my cute and sassy jungle animals and sketches and acrylic florals show my ability to do, uh, composition and lighting and high contrast and balance and layout and anatomy and...toad slime?
Follow me on Instagram to see more artsy stuff.
I do lots of sketching, and my bread and butter medium has always been pencil and paper. Then one day I got a bit cocky and upgraded to the unforgiving permanency of ballpoint pen.
^ As a book editor type who regularly undertakes the copious, cumbersome, unavoidable trial-and-error-filled editorial process that's required to turn manuscripts into books...I don't understand why I'm not more terrified of pens. But I'm not. I love them.
I feel hopeful this will translate well to tattoo design.
I've done a few smaller images as well. Per my industry research, this is an example of a "flash tattoo" which is a fun techbro way of saying the design is fully planned, polished, and prepped for beta launch. Just tell us where you want it to go!
Lastly, I have actually designed one real life tattoo before, and I had someone else tattoo it on me. I drew it on paper first, then I drew it in ballpoint pen on my own self. Is that weird, or just ADHD?
I styled it to match with the aesthetics, content, and placement of the cute fox tattoo on my upper arm.
This resulted in a more cohesive final product. I'm eager to claim whatever brand of planning and wonky prepwork this constutites as (probably hopefully) another transferable tattoo design skill.
Lovely fox tattoo by Julia, the talented owner of Frisco Tattoo in Boulder, Colorado. Check them out.
