Today we’d like to introduce you to Mark Ruffin.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I started tattooing while deployed in the Army 2009 camp Ramadi in Iraq. I would tattoo my battle buddies when we had free time, I fell in love with the process and continued for the next few years while remaining active duty, when I got out the army, I went to school in Virginia got tattooing. 2012 and graduated under lee Odum in 2013. I then traveled multiple tattoo shops around the US from Washington (studio x/Art & soul Beverly Hills/tattoo addiction Venice Beach. I moved back to Texas to be with my wife Shelby Clark who is my inspiration and hero. She is a registered nurse in the Plano Medical City er… I enjoy all forms of tattooing from black and grey to color anything to do with art is for me I enjoy working out and traveling on my free time. My goal is to build a shop that is part of the community for decades to come so that my clients’ grandkids can say they saw my work on their grandparents and parents and so on!
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
I used to be military, so it was difficult to sit still and actually focus on the craft.
Thanks – so, what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Tattoo artist. I love all tattooing, but if I had to choose one particular style, it would be black-and-grey realism.
What do you like and dislike about the city?
I like prosper for its creativity and its new vibe of youth
Contact Info:
- Website: Luxuryinkz.org
- Instagram: Luxury_inkz
- Yelp: Luxury inkz
