my name is Hector Guerrero, Born February 8th 1996, born and raised in Santa Barbara California, I've enjoyed drawing since I was child. I remember the first time I showed interest in art, came from a drawing the I received from a prison letter. it was a color pencil drawing of Spiderman. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing ive ever seen and I wanted to learn how to do that. so I attempted, its funny at the time I thought I was pretty damn good, but always wanted to be better. I usually got praised as I child for my drawings but never really liked the attention, I was a shy introverted kid, sucked at sports, all I was slightly good at was drawing so I stuck to it. during my teenage years I began getting in trouble for dumb shit, grew up without a father figure, was on house arrest, getting locked up at the Santa Maria Juvenal hall from Time to time, it seemed pretty bad, but to be honest it gave me a lot of time to myself. which was good for me. isolated from the outside world, no distractions I was able to sit and do a lot of thinking, during that time i learned so much about myself. eventually I came to my senses,I knew I needed to get my shit together. there was an older homie from the same area I grew up in that owned a tattoo shop, I thought it was cool how he did art for a living and i wanted to be just like him. his name was Sergio Diaz aka Timbon, with that I made a plan I was going to be a tattoo artist and I began my journey. I did my first tattoo when I was about 15 years old on my leg, did a couple other ones on my neighbor at the time, got a lil hate online, and I stopped tattooing for a while and focused strictly on my drawing until I was 20 and got an opportunity to apprentice with some great people. I began my apprenticeship at slanging ink tattoo in Santa Barbara and worked under my three mentors. Timbon (Sergio Diaz) the owner of the shop, Vinny Tovar, and Brenno Ressa. Amazing people truly grateful for the opportunity to work under them. I had a lot of memorable moments with this shop. and this place will always hold a special place in my heart. I Began my apprenticeship in Oct 2016 that lasted about 2 years and focused mainly on drawing, making sure the shop was clean and my mentors were taken care of.