Jess Cavazos

Jess Cavazos is from Corpus Christi, Texas and specializes in color realism and portraiture. He is well known for his incredibly realistic color portraits but he also enjoys doing horror/fantasy and surrealism elements in his pieces.


Jess has been tattooing for over a decade and was a contestant on Ink Master season 11. Jess also has a passion for FX work and sculpture and owns his own brand of fake skin, Tattoo FX. 


Jess has won awards at tattoo conventions throughout the world and has also taught several seminars. He currently tattoos at Black Lantern Tattoo in Corpus Christi.

Jess will be doing a bonus seminar titled "Evolve: An Introduction to A.I. Image Generation"

In this seminar, Jess will go over how to get started using Midjourney (an A.I. - text to image generator) and how to incorporate it into your everyday tattoo work flow. This seminar will also help to give you an understanding of what keywords or phrases to use to get the best results for customized references as well as different exercises to help boost your creativity.