Meet Marcus Rose

We were lucky to catch up with Marcus Rose recently and have shared our conversation below.

Marcus, looking forward to learning from your journey. You’ve got an amazing story and before we dive into that, let’s start with an important building block. Where do you get your work ethic from?

I’d say I’ve always had a work ethic instilled in me since I was young. Having six siblings and my parents working all the time, I had to be responsible for feeding them all their meals, getting them off to school and picking them up after, basically raising them since I was about 8 or 9 years old.

My apprenticeship also had a huge role to play in creating a strong work ethic. As an apprentice there would be days where I worked 19 hours and then went home to draw for another few hours and go into the shop the next day running on little to no sleep. My mentor always had high expectations for me. For example, I was required to do 300 drawings every single week and instead of creating distress, it drove me to work harder because I wanted to learn to tattoo so badly.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I’m a 26-year-old tattoo artist who’s been professionally tattooing for just little over seven years. I specialize in creating black and gray realism tattoos. Honestly, what I’m most excited about in life right now is just coming to work every day and producing high-quality art for my clients. My entire life revolves around being an artist. When I’m not tattooing, I’m working on art projects and building my brand, “GreySkulk.” I recently relaunched my clothing brand, which you can find on GreySkulk.com. Right now, I’m primarily focused on quality over quantity.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Definitely the three most important skills or qualities to have in any area of expertise are consistency, determination, and patience. If you have the determination to stay consistent, you we’ll see results but it does require patience because it won’t happen immediately. When I first started tattooing, I was terrible and I often times wondered why anybody trusted me to permanently mark their body, but I never gave up and I worked at improving every single day. I’ll never be complacent but here I am seven years later and I can confidently say the hard work has paid off!

Okay, so before we go, is there anyone you’d like to shoutout for the role they’ve played in helping you develop the essential skills or overcome challenges along the way?

The people who have been most impactful in helping me overcome challenges and develop essential skills and knowledge for me to be successful is pretty easy for me to answer. It would have to be Chris and Kim Hummel as well as my older sister Meg. They’re all very well established adults and help me stay on track with basic necessities of life such as being responsible, healthy, and just being an overall good person! I really look up to all of them and honestly don’t know where I would be without their help especially Kim she’s basically my agent/manager (momager) and I couldn’t do what I do at the same level without her help! Shout out to all three of them they’re literally the best!!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.greyskulk.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcusrose7/profilecard/?igsh=MTJpaWxwNzRtdGtzYg==

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