Wa 7

Sick Board Dude
I had just gone to the garage to get some new paint. I had a passion for painting graffiti on almost any flat surface I could find. It was my dream to become a sponsored designer/artist for a skateboarding or surfing company The details and the critiques that I put into my work brought many people and was attraction around town. I had just started working on this sick picture of a cross with praying hands in front of it. I got m inspiring thoughts from tattoos, magazines, and thoughts of some of my fans.
It was a bright sunny day at the skate park, where I usually print my work. Some of the skaters came up to me and asked me “ Do you design skateboards or something?” “ No, but I wish I could.” I said. I turned to look at the guy and I noticed that he wasn’t a skater it was Bucky Lasek. “ Hey man I seen some of your work around town and I was wondering if you would like to design a board for me to use at the X games.” “ Uh, Uh, you’ve left me speechless.” I replied. “ So is it a yes or a no.” he said. “ Ya I will do it.” “ Sounds good meet me at my place at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow.”
I quickly finished my work and went to the store to load up on paint. The next morning I couldn’t wait till 11 so I had to go paint a wall. I walked to the back of my apartment complex where I painted a picture of a all sorts of metal pipes and rods bent around each other into letters that said “ live free.” Eleven finally came and I was more then pumped to go to Bucky’s place. When I arrived he had drawn me a picture of what he wanted on it. It was a picture of a skeleton that is holding a bulldog at the end of a metal chain. It took me a couple of days working on it because it was my first board that I had completed. I only had to use my cans of white and black spray paint.
A week later I was at the X games watching my board go up and down the ramp. Bucky seemed to be pleased with the board that he recommended me to Birdhouse boards. The next day I went to work for the first day at my new job as the head designer of graphics. I was making the big bucks designing for Tony Hawk, Shaun white, and Mark Reynolds. My passion earned me the life that I wanted.