Almost everyone has a tattoo today. For someone, it’s a whole philosophy, someone does “like everyone else.” We looked at the process from inside the wizard’s eyes with the owner of Kubik Studio Victor Kubrak. And after the conversation they began to think: and why not to make something fun too?

“What do tattoos give? Apparently, people want to express themselves so to show their uniqueness. So discover your inner world. Here you look at a person; you will not see his qualities right away. If you show yourself through a tattoo, you’re getting another. You look at a person with a tattoo and realize that he can have something interesting to tell that he is not like everyone and he will be differently perceived by society”
“I always loved drawing and I thought I would do something like that, well, design, for example. And when I finished school, I began to evaluate opportunities for development. And parents began to say: “Let’s take something more serious, real, so stable at work, stable salary.” No, the salary is good (laughs). I graduated from Kharkiv University of Internal Affairs. The initiator was the father. Did I see myself a policeman? Yes of course. I did not have enough for a few months to get the title of captain. And there was no special contradiction: the military is a discipline. We must combine the pleasures with the useful ones. Discipline is an order, and in order to work. Though all the same there are overlays, but the order should be”
“Why did I choose the tattoo?” I like to express people’s thoughts, their inner world through the drawing on the skin. Undeniably, it’s communication. New people – new acquaintances and knowledge»
“Now there is no clear semantic binding in the tattoo: a tiger means that, and the bird is. What a person decided to do for him, as he imagined the image, so well for her. Actual understanding by a man the tattoo attracts me”
“Tattooing does not change life, it’s self-evolution. People read something there on the Internet and in a month they think: “I closed the chakras”. No it is not. So, if you believe in something strongly, or made a tattoo in some critical moment in life, life will definitely change but not because the tattoo is made on the body. You changed something in my head, and the tattoo is already as a consequence. If you yourself have changed, then life will change. When, for example, a girl wants to part with a guy and makes a new hairstyle, it does not mean that she divorced the boy through the hairdo. That is, if you yourself have changed, then without the tattoo life will change! ”
“What do I love besides tattoos? Well, that’s a big question. I try to spend more time in gyms, train hands to work (Smiling) This is such a vent. I do not definitely lie on the couch ever. I love to have a walk in the evening, no, it’s better to go somewhere even at night. I love bad weather, I love the rain. The weather is worse, so I’m cooler. I do not like to work in good weather. You will arrive either early in the morning, or late at night, or when the rain, slush, snow, and you are at work! This is a cool feeling: around chaos, and you’re doing your cozy business in a cozy place – you create some things. And free time all is devoted to tattoos. I see the work of other masters, ours or someone from abroad, looking for new ideas, people who want to realize something »
“It’s interesting when a person comes up with a certain idea, and you try to persuade her to do something more relevant and more complex, which will allow a person to be allocated in the future by means of a tattoo, so that the tattoo was not at all. A lot of people perceive tattoo as “Halya did, I want the same thing.” Think: “Somebody has made a bird, and I have the same birdie.” Actually, nobody thinks, how many will go with this bird, how many people with the same tattoo – it does not worry anyone anymore. It’s like sneakers: you bought, and other people want the same model because they want to equalize. And in fact it is necessary to create the style itself, to set priorities, fashion, and the pace of development. If there are few images, this does not mean that they are not relevant: or there is no money to make quality tattoos, or there is no understanding, taste”
“It happens, they come and ask:” And there are colored tattoos? I heard that there. Can you color it? What color do you have? “And there are colors forty! People just do not quite come to the end, exactly how it should look and how it should be done. Today is just the period of a breakthrough when the social world perceives the tattoo adequately; nobody wants to do anything small. Try to make big and interesting images »
“Ukraine in terms of tattoos developed – many masters in Zhytomyr, and in Ukraine. In general, it seems to me that the CIS countries are advanced in this. How many people come from Europe, from Poland, say that there are one or two cool masters, to which it is simply unrealistic to get, and prices are cosmic. Everyone does as much as possible within their financial capacity. How much have I paid – for so much I did. Therefore, our masters go to Poland: there is a shortage, and we have an excess. And there is an opportunity to develop”
“I do not want to go from Ukraine. I will live here. I like. It’s hard to say. But it seems to me that if you want to, then you can live and achieve something you can. I would like to travel to get the experience, the world to look. A couple of weeks there, and then back. Such flexible schedule. Have a rest, get inspired by energy, travel, and live here! ”
“Parents normally took my decision to leave the police. They realized that it would only be better. We must be able to go on time. Now it’s possible to find your niche and keep some positions. But staying, waiting for something, going to work and just trying to do something in your spare time. And after five years as a master you are unlikely to exist, because we have a competition, and it is high enough”
“There is no one masters who would consider an idol. I’m constantly looking for my style. Everyone takes some details; I take them out to myself. There are styles I prefer, but on the whole I try to find something new every time. Details on the general background can not fall into the eye, but some moments you change to get your unique handwriting. Such, by tattoo, to determine who was done. I can take ten different works and identify who the author is. Though both the picture and the instrument can be the same, but each one does individually: paints, outlines each one in his own way”
“No master, even the best one, will ever say:” I already know everything. «All the same you need to study all the time. I prefer shadow robots, and I can work all day long without tired and catch the buzz of such work”
“If you stuffed the tattoo “wrong”, then back already … With this it will be necessary to live (Laughs) Of course, you can try to bring out lasers, discoloration, overlap with other tattoos, but it is better to do a good job from the very beginning, so that it will not be processed later»
“One of my clients is 72 years old. He came to do a tattoo. I ask why. And he says: “Probably soon it will be time to say goodbye. Relatives will look at tattoos I have and think it’s a shame. Let’s go normal, clear out these” Serious grandfather, he himself painted in the tablet, he found the sketches”
“Younger clients – 15-14 years old, came with their parents. Basically, I do not do tattoos for clients under 18 without parents. Actually, at 18, you do not always come to realize what you are doing, but … I’m going to make minors, do the tattoos only when the idea is close to me. And, on a professional basis, very different people come: sellers, managers, and employees of various security agencies. Even the shepherd was one! Absolutely different people come. Even you communicate with a person and you can not imagine what it can do”
“Everybody asks why I do not have a tattoo. I like to do them, I like tattoo on others. I thought about what kind of tattoo I would have filled myself up with. Even the sketch was prepared, imagining how it would look on the skin. Then the customer did the following. And again he cooked, and again stuffed somebody. In general, at some point there is no shortage of tattoos in my life. All my friends are in tattoo, and I have more than enough now »
“Nowadays many festivals are professional. Kyiv, Kharkiv, was recently in Vinnytsia. You can also organize a similar fest in Zhytomyr, but you have to understand what level to ask. And sooner or later there will be a person who will take it. It is only necessary to organize everything without “cinema”
“Tattoos need to be properly positioned on the body. The idea can be any, but you have to do it so that it looks cool. On a woman – more feminine, on a man – more courageous. Tattoo can not contradict the general image of a person »
“I was born in Lithuania, we moved to Zhytomyr because father was a military one. All men in our family are involved in military service. And in Zhytomyr we have been for ten years. And in the near future I see myself here. The city is developing, even in the field of tattoos. I think that over time, Zhytomyr will be very perspective; people will be able to earn a good job here and will not want to go anywhere. At least I really want to believe it! ”
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Translated by Aliona Matushevich