Please please please do not use AI to generate reference photos to send me 🫠 designing your tattoo is a huge part of my job please let me actually do it

✦ Stained Glass Oranges ✦ Had the honor of doing this stained glass oranges piece from my pre drawns on my lovely friend/very long time client a few weeks ago! 🍊✨ I still have several pre drawn designs available! #eternalink #brightestcolorsperiod

✦ Orange Lamp ✦ I absolutely loved doing this orange lamp from my pre drawn designs for my friend Nova! I would love to do more pieces like this in the future! 🍊✨ #eternalink #brightestcolorsperiod

✦ Pre Drawn Designs ✦ Been having a lot of fun drawing up a bunch of things recently! Shoot me an email at [email protected] or text me at 781-317-5321 if you’re interested in getting any of these tattooed. Additionally, my books are open for custom requests as usual! Thanks y’all! ✨

Some more pre drawn designs 🥹🍊🫐 As usual, text me at 781-317-5321 or email me at [email protected] if you wanna snag one! I’m dying to do one of these lamps ✨

✦ Stained Glass Fruit Designs ✦ Happy June! Can you tell I’ve been feeling fruity lately? These are all up for grabs for $600 each! Shoot me a text at 781-317-5321 if you wanna snag one! 🍊🍋🍎

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.

all I want to do is draw blueberries right now 🫐 idk why that’s my current brain worm but nothing else I could draw is interesting to me. Does anyone else get like this?

my partner called me “dovelet” today I just want to kiss him all over his face

yeah you’ve introduced yourself to your client who you’ve already tattooed before, but have you ever asked another tattooer if they’ve ever visited your home state and the answer is “yes, when you tattooed me there” ☠️☠️☠️

🎶Coming out of my cage and I 🎶 - oh fuck no. 🎶Getting back in my cage🎶

Hard launching my new partner by posting his tattoo was a weird move but hey

I got tattoo one of my favorite things on one of my favorite people yesterday 🌛✨ Little stained glass moon chest decoration for my lovely partner ✨

Some flowers this week for a really lovely client. 🧡🌼 I’d love to do more florals soon, especially as spring approaches! My books are open 🧡

Centaurworld just killed me 😭

Idk is it really “flash” if you’re just posting someone else’s art from a botanical illustration book

can’t wait to find out if I’m gonna regret tattooing at not one but two out of state conventions that occur a month before & then two weeks before my vow renewal

Working during these already trying times but also having to work while dealing with incapacitating grief is testing me fr

Surely I’m the only person experiencing this currently

Last year, an author mentioned my shop on her substack. It changed my income so drastically that this is the spike of orders from that *one* mention last year. Word of mouth for an artist can change everything.

🧵🧵Ko-Fi Goal Thread!!🧵🧵 Bringing back my ko-fi donation doodles! My poor car’s gotten to the point where I’m gonna have to start saving for a new one. Anything helps, tho this time however the donation has to be at least $20 to get a lineless doodle. ko-fi.com/vickivega/go... examples below!

spent the evening drawing in my sketchbook and toying with some new ideas and man, I can not say enough how important it is to get off your iPad and draw on some paper every once in a while

If you post that getting tattooed hurts you’ll summon approximately 15-20 people who will reply about how they “can’t relate bc they sleep through theirs”

Thought I was going crazy bc I kept feeling like the faces in a big tattooers work looked off and then she said she uses AI as reference frequently and I was like ah that explains it

My beloved Uncle Ronnie passed today after months of battling cancer. I was one of his care takers and his end of life transition happened so suddenly (he was fine on Friday). I feel incredibly lost. Please keep my family and I in your thoughts 🧡 He was a sweetie and will be sorely missed.

✦ Stained Glass Flail ✦ Whenever Jay sends in a booking form, I know I’m about to have an amazing day! I’d LOVE to do more flails in any style, and I’d love to do more stained glass things on any skin tone! My books are open as usual. ✨ #eternalink #queertattooer

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Fine artists using generative AI for reference proves you can be a skilled painter and still lack integrity and imagination.

Crochet bunny 🩷 #crochet #rabbit #tattoo #illustration #art

genuinely the AI conversation in tattooing is so exhausting already, and I know it’s going to keep going but I continue to be shocked that we aren’t all in agreement on the whole “I don’t want a computer to generate my art for me” thing

stardew kitties!!!

i don't want to persist anymore but i am transgender so i must

Been a while since I’ve posted something that isn’t stained glass related! I would really love to do more Polly Pocket houses 🥺 This was such a blast to draw (and tattoo) 🌟

Hey. Academy. There are far more interesting Trans films (made by trans people) you could have chosen instead of fucking Emilia Perez

BAT

I can’t stop crying over that anglerfish

Someone's gotta do it I guess New print here! www.sonnyross.com/shop/together

Today I've discovered an animal called "Skeleton panda sea squirt" exists. A sessile, filter feeding tunicat.

It’s Peeps season which is when I’m at my most powerful but also when my clients leave me little Peeps gifts 😭 Look at how cute these are!!!

Got to do this piece from my pre drawn designs today! 🍓🩷 So honored my client made the trip from CT to get tattooed by me!

i like being transgender i think it's good

Buying three more books might fix me

I had a first date with someone new this week and I didn’t even make it a full hour without bringing up Marshmallow Peeps smut so… obviously I’m a keeper

I picked like, the actual worst time to start going about my name change / gender marker change huh? 😭😅

figured it would be nice to wrap up this sketch this weekend! :-) 🌟💛

One I made today. #sloth #witch #tattoo #art #illustration

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

Punk worm

Ok, I’ll bite. What is my purpose on this planet

I do not like deviled eggs but every time I see something about deviled eggs it feels like my duty to send it to @vitriol.bsky.social