Pipi Universel

I'm a 42-year-old do-it-yourself artist. Worked in loads of different jobs not related to art and since 2016 I've only focused on art. Traditional illustration, some painting, I was a tattooer also and still I am but don't remember the last time I tattooed a client. I'm more focused nowadays on digital art, digital painting, gifs, video art, and specific collabs with other artists.

Self-taught but not all, I did study photography a bit, and I did some photography courses. I also studied graphic design so that helped me with the Adobe programs that are my 80% tools nowadays. I came into the art mostly because of my start in the tattoo world when I was living in Madrid in 2016, there it started more for real with real handmade illustration. I had a tattoo studio with two friends and worked on that for almost 2 years and a half and then I left and went back to Argentina where I started mining crypto but it went wrong and then I started trying with NFTs. The tattoo studio was when I was in Barcelona and the studio is still going and doing very well and it's managed by an English friend.

I didn't decide to do only art, I was searching for a job and at the same moment started doing art because I met a girl that was starting to tattoo and showed me her style and I liked it, it was because of this lover I had in Madrid. I started drawing (only line drawing) and started tattooing on myself also. I started drawing with the wacom and the computer and then moved to drawing with my hand and pencil or pen or whatever I had nearby.

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I like all of them, like a lot Francisco Goya.

Random. Internet. My daily life. I take references from all of it, my main source is the Internet. I also use a lot of my daily footage, photos, and videos from my cell phone.

Money, I live from NFTs, so I need to produce. It's my job. I do it for money, I collect to resell. I try to work every day, yes.

I collect some of the AI art by nohygiene and ileigh. Then there are some that I like but are very expensive for me, like Frank Manzano. I can't remember much more. I remember that in Emprops there were some interesting ones but it's like they emulate almost to perfection old school artists (dead artists) and I nowadays don't like it. I prefer broken styles and errors.

I did it when I was 17 years old, it was on my back, from an Argentinean rock band called Patricio Rey Y sus redonditos de ricota ( I highly recommend their music). It was very painful hahaha, like all of them. I'm fully tattooed, yes, but the crazy thing is that I made almost all of them in less than 3 years. And I'm a big boy, 1,94 meters, not easy to fill.

I probably have one of this collection. Definitely have loads of phrases of my own also. It's a classic. I also probably have some of this collection. It is very important for me because it's all the designs I was offering as tattoos. And then decided to mint them and I sold them all and that gives me courage to go on with the NFT world.

I'm a big fan. I used to play a lot and wanted to be pro but broke my ligaments and didn't fix well. I was a really very good defender. I think If I didn't have the injury I could have made it to the national team.

It's football (haha) not soccer. The only people who call it soccer are Americans. I support Club Atletico River Plate. While I was living in Barcelona, Messi was playing and I supported Barcelona and also went to Camp Nou to watch him play, it was ridiculous. I think they won 6 vs 1 against Celta de Vigo.

For me it's Messi. No Doubt. Maradona had way more charisma though. But If I have to choose I go with Messi.