about me

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 that a family member had gotten, it was a color pencil drawing of Spiderman. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing I've ever seen and I wanted to learn. I was not as good as id hope but I never stopped, I always wanted to be better, to this day I still experience that same hunger for improvement. during my teenage years I began getting in a lil trouble, I got sent to Juvenal hall a couple times, and I was constantly on house arrest. it gave me a lot of time to myself, and most of that time was spent drawing, I loved it, it took me to a peaceful place, where I can just put on some music and just create, Eventually I realized I needed to get my shit together, stop messing around, and figure out what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. 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 do the same, his name was Sergio Diaz but everyone knows him as Timbon. I did my first tattoo when I was about 15 years old on my leg, did a couple other ones on my neighbor and younger homies but then I stopped, I wanted to do it the right way. So I put the machine down 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 Began my apprenticeship in Oct 2016 that lasted about 2 years and focused mainly on drawing, making sure the shop was clean, all that good stuff. 3 years into my career I was able to quit my job and begin tattooing full time.