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With Draguns approval, Byron Wallace would go on to open Warlock’s Tattoo which would become one of the most well known, successful studios in the southeastern US. Byron would spend the next four years at Dragon Wing learning the tricks of the trade before eventually asking permission from his teacher to break off and go solo.
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It was there that he would learn the art of needle making, how to mix pigments, how to make acetate stencils and everything else relative to the tattooing process. The owner of the shop, Johnny Dragun, was receptive and Wallace Began his apprenticeship. After developing a friendship with the artist and owner, Don Eaker, He wrote a letter of recommendation to “Dragon Wing Tattoo”, a shop back in Oklahoma. In his early twenties he found himself driving from Oklahoma to a shop called “Different Drummer Tattoo” in Wichita Falls, Texas. Wallace was getting his first tattoos at the age of sixteen. Wallace also credits art teachers for much of his early interest but his strongest emphasis is in reference to the Navy. His exposure to tattoos via the navy would prove to be the match that lit the flame of his career. Byron had the luxury of viewing this era of tattooing first hand. Sailors would get tattooed abroad and return to artists in the US who would use these seamen and their tattoos as inspiration. They were surely responsible for the growing popularity of tattoos and could also be credited with exposing tattoo artists in the US to foreign styles of tattooing, such as Japanese. One could argue that, years ago, tattoos were almost exclusively reserved for sailors. Growing up as the son of a Senior Master Chief, Byron was directly exposed to naval tattoos.
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Byron Wallace is, in fact, one of the few veteran artists (and shop owners) who has stood the test of time. Today’s shops are filled with a younger generation and the older faces seem to be getting fewer and fewer. Much has changed and only a small percentage of working artists today have been around long enough to explain that change to us first hand.
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The tattoo industry has grown leaps and bounds in the past four decades.