It's similar to that of an ordinary photograph being run through Photoshop and made into a sticker. “Typically, portrait work is one style or the other but I try my best to mesh both. “I like to think that I have a photo-realistic style with a stylized approach,” Laroy says. He has tattooed what he calls “pop-culture pieces” of Will Smith, Biggie, Tupac, Pharrell and Michael Jackson, to name a few. If you’ve seen him onscreen or are one of his 68,000 Instagram followers, then you know Laroy is best known for his portraiture. “Even though we all work at different shops, everyone knows each other and I've learned so much from some of the most talented artists in the industry residing locally in the ‘Triple D.’” “Aside from housing some of the best artists in the country like Francisco Sanchez, Zack Singer and Rember Orellana, just seems like a big extended family,” he says. He was introduced at the end of the reality show’s fifth season.Īfter all he has done and accomplished, Laroy is still obsessed with the Dallas tattoo scene. While filming Ink Master, which Laroy describes as one of the most intense and memorable experiences of his life, VH1’s Black Ink Crew producers reached out to him with another opportunity. “I was so apprehensive at first, but even after my mom's disapproval, I was there the next day with pen and paper in hand, ready to take notes,” Laroy says. That career began in 2006 after an apprenticeship under friend and local tattoo artist Mani Ramos.
I graduated high school in Dallas, and the start of my career began in Dallas.” “My entire life we moved around a lot, but Dallas is where we spent the most time and where I've become most comfortable,” he says. Courtesy Kevin Laroy Laroy moved to Dallas with his family when he was 15 years old.
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