His family migrated from the Philippines to Australia in the late 1980s, moving in different government housing units in the inner west and finally settling in Campbelltown, located in Sydney's west. Growing up in the 90’s Ralph loved watching cartoons and playing video games, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Mortal Kombat, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc. If he wasn’t enjoying those shows he was drawing all the time, if there weren’t pencils or paper around he would draw in the air with his imagination!

Ralph's primary goal after graduating high school was to pursue a career in art. Right after graduating he went to his local tattoo shop, to ask tattooing and showed his portfolio to the tattooist. They basically said “gangs will own you and you need to get better at drawing”

He put Tattooing on the back burner and studied Airbrushing, Fine Arts and Illustration.

It wasn’t until he was 27 after graduating from Tafe he decided to pursue tattooing again, after months of rejections he got a break!