is there anyone under the age of 30 in the tiki scene?? - General Tiki

T TiKiMaN77 Member Downey, CA Joined: Nov 30, 2004 Posts: 179	T TiKiMaN77 Posted posted on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 7:34 PM Welp, as you can tell from my SN, I'm 30, almost 31, and to be honest..I can't really remember when the Tiki Bug bit me. Growing up Jersey, there wasn't a hell of a lot around me that screamed TIKI. If I saw anything, it was in Books, TV (like the Brady Bunch movie everyone here I'm sure knows about) and elsewhere, but my main love in Life...and still is today, was Comic Books. Now, working as a professional Inker, I sit there and think about Pin-Ups and storys I wanna do all with the Tiki theme going on. All of which you can find in my Thread in the art section here. I wanna bring Tiki's out to the Main stream, into a Market that's Plagued by Unoriginality, and get more people interested, get the Fans to take notice if you will. There's just something about Tiki's in General I find appealing. Having never been to Hawaii, I find inspiration in the works by others who came long before me, and obviously the guys still doing it today. And I'm gonna keep on pluggin away to bring the younger generation into the fold... If any of this doesn't make much sence, sorry, blame it on the 2 Large vanilla Iced Coffees from MacDonalds, the Iced Tea, and the Double Gulp of Coke from 711 today. Kinda hard to focus with a caffine high.....

Welp, as you can tell from my SN, I'm 30, almost 31, and to be honest..I can't really remember when the Tiki Bug bit me. Growing up Jersey, there wasn't a hell of a lot around me that screamed TIKI. If I saw anything, it was in Books, TV (like the Brady Bunch movie everyone here I'm sure knows about) and elsewhere, but my main love in Life...and still is today, was Comic Books. Now, working as a professional Inker, I sit there and think about Pin-Ups and storys I wanna do all with the Tiki theme going on. All of which you can find in my Thread in the art section here. I wanna bring Tiki's out to the Main stream, into a Market that's Plagued by Unoriginality, and get more people interested, get the Fans to take notice if you will.
There's just something about Tiki's in General I find appealing. Having never been to Hawaii, I find inspiration in the works by others who came long before me, and obviously the guys still doing it today. And I'm gonna keep on pluggin away to bring the younger generation into the fold...

If any of this doesn't make much sence, sorry, blame it on the 2 Large vanilla Iced Coffees from MacDonalds, the Iced Tea, and the Double Gulp of Coke from 711 today. Kinda hard to focus with a caffine high.....

Post #396591 by TiKiMaN77 on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 7:34 PM