About Us | A Pound Of Flesh

Shaun Miller and Abraham Cobaxin, tattoo artists themselves, solved a problem, namely how to practice, really practice, tattoo without subjecting friends and family to still-budding talent and rough art they would have to cover up in a few years. Shaun had even run out of space on his own arm practicing.

They tried practice tattoo skin and, as it was all that was offered beyond raiding the kitchen for oranges and, forbid, a choice slice of pig, practice skin was fine. It was suitable.

Then the two came up with the idea for practice tattoo hands. Shaun casted his hand, and Abraham brewed and poured the mold. Abraham had worked in special effects. The first hands were fine, but they weren’t great. Not yet. They concocted and brewed and poured molds again and again, their tattoo machines buzzing to test the latest batch.

It was macabre to say the least, the scene. Hands severed at the wrists, strewn about the floor of the apartment they worked in. Kicked under tables and the couch, failures all. Hands inked with scars of black outlines; broad swaths of red and purple and yellow read like bruising and blood; Shaun and Abraham in the middle, Dr. Frankensteins, delighted finally by that perfect hand. It was night. And yes, there was a bolt of lightning.

The Nuts and Bolts of “A Pound of Flesh”

Synthetic tattooable skin, shaped like realistic limbs. It is our mission to create an experience closest to tattooing real skin. It’s main purpose is to help apprentice and beginning tattoo artist to learn the techniques of tattooing without having to actually practices on real people. This will hopefully cut down on the amount of poorly executed tattoos done by beginners. Other applications are that even more experienced artist can practice new techniques and/or new equipment. It can also serves as a 3D portfolio. Potential clients will be able to get a better idea how well an artist can tattoo by physically seeing an example versus just a picture on paper or a computer screen.