New Zealand artist might look like a tough guy, but don’t be fooled. He’s really a softie at heart.
He had painted fake tattoos on several children at hospitals and saw thesmiles the designs produced, so he took to and said hewould give all the kids at Aucklands Starship Childrens Hospital temporary tattoos if he received 50 likes.
Well, he didn’t get 50 likes. He got more than400,000 of them.
Lloyd said the post has reached more than 15 million people and sent his phone into meltdown.
“I checked it and was just like ‘Wow,’” he said. “I started crying I couldn’t believe it.”
The 25-year-old artist has airbrushed tattoo designs on a handful of children over the past two years, after years decorating cars and houses, and said there’s nothing like making a hospital stay a little easier for the kids.
“Nothing brings me more joy than boosting kids confidence with a custom tattoo, wrote Lloyd on Facebook. The only bad thing is that they dont want to take a shower afterwards.
“It’s just the confidence they get – especially the boys they walk round so proud,” he continued, “you put art on them and they’re just so excited they can choose their own designs.”
It takes about eight minutes to do a sleeve design on a child’s arm, which was also about the extent of theirattention spans, he said.
“You’ve got to be quick,” he added. “And it’s good with this design you can get a lot done really quickly.”
Part of his inspiration for helping children was his own experience drawing fake tattoos on himself when he was young.
“I’ve been drawing my whole life. When I was two years old I had quite a bad burn on my hand and had a skin graft with my bum skin on my hand,” he said. “I had a big complex about it. I was teased every day at school and so I would draw over my hand and up my sleeve.”
“I just got better and better,” he continued. “Eventually I had a line up of people wanting me to draw on them, I was doing deals with kids swapping cards and marbles.”
And now he’s swapping ink for smiles for kids who need them the most!
You can watch him at work here:
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