Meet Charlie Karnage

We recently connected with Charlie Karnage and have shared our conversation below.

Charlie, first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.

Honestly overcoming it was really simple and it really doesn’t effect me at all anymore, The trick is to make sure to value originality and never copy anything, most artists that suffer from it secretly are copying tattoos completely or they are copying specific parts of other peoples are and “putting their own spin on it” which is just plain lazy..people like that deserve to feel like an imposter because they are when compared to actual artists,

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

I’m a whole lot of award winning black and grey tattoo artist. I specialize in dark art, horror, freehand teeth and monsters, demon ladies, scary animals, gore, mythology, and anime tattoos. What sets me apart from most other local “artists” other than my unique style and extreme speed(ask anybody in the fastest) is the fact that every single tattoo I do is 100% original as it should be. You won’t find my stuff tattooed better on Pinterest unless someone better copies me haha

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Well, I’m a tattoo artist; other than the obvious art background that you would expect me to have I also had a great hustle and drive about me from my prior less than legal career on the streets. I acquired drive, ambition, and charisma from that experience. You have to be confident but you have to also understand what level your at and what you should be striving towards, the moment you aren’t improving you’re getting worse.

Do you think it’s better to go all in on our strengths or to try to be more well-rounded by investing effort on improving areas you aren’t as strong in?

I specialize in a few very similar styles of black and grey, I don’t do any color at all. In my opinion in tattooing it is much better to focus on doing one task very well considering that they are permanent for someone else. I see so many tattooers, especially locally that try to do everything and manage do everything sub par because of it and in this industry there really shouldn’t be any room for sub par.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Charliekarnagetattoos.com
• Instagram: Charliekarnage