Steal like an artist. Austin Kleon even wrote a whole book about this and his point is simple: there are no truly original ideas. Everything comes from somewhere. Every artist is carrying pieces of the artists that came before them. Our job isn’t to reinvent the wheel—it’s to learn how others built theirs, take the parts that resonate, and then twist them into something only we could make. That’s what I tried to do with this piece: borrow the tricks, honor the influence, and let my own voice rise through the lines. I channeled my inner @imchrisgreen on this one. Not trying to copy the man—just studying what makes his work sing. The palette, the shapes, the contour lines… there were so many parts of his tattoo I found myself drawn to. I tried to learn from it without biting it too hard, walking that tightrope between inspiration and imitation. One thing that gets a lot of artists in trouble is strictly using one piece of reference and the results looking too similar. My way of avoiding that in this case was to use the Asaro head to redraw the the design using the planes of the face to find my contour lines and light and shadow. Hopefully I did this justice and no enemies are made What do you think?