Nice choice. Awesome work and that website is a trip! lol

I am making preliminary plans for a trip to Japan in December. You know what that means! But for the first time, I will be going to a different artist. This time, I will only need to go south as far as Nagoya:

GENKO TATTOO | ギャラリー

Hope everything works out, I have wanted to go to this guy for ages

Whatitdew, who else u recommend for neo japanese work? Yeah jesse took back his word and said he start bookin in dec, so it starts march, and jeff said one time thing so ill let him do my back piece, I'm thinking andrea of trigger happy, but any other recommendations will be great
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I posted this link before, but if you want good Japanese:

Japanese « Sanitary Electric Tattoo Company

CHad at Sanitary Electric is awesome and I like his traditional style japanese work better than Jeff Tams.

Clint Danroth - Craftsman

Mark or Art - Funhouse

Ken Greer - Fat City

James Acrow - personel private tattoo shop

Rob Hope - rob hope tattoos

Jesse Strong - New World Tattoo

Dan Green - Sacred Heart

Trevor Shea or Ian JansenVanBeek - Three Point Tattoo

Jesse young or Piotr barker - Six Gill Tattoo Sechelt

There is a lot of others. Jesse and Jeff are great, Jesse is one of my main artists. Its just a lot of people seem to go to whoever someone tells them to see. You should spend a lot of time checking out all the great shops in and around vancouver and you may find someone with a style you really connect with. Actually go to these shops not just look on the internet. I realize some are private and you cant just go visit.

I posted another list of artists a couple pages back aswell.

Right now I am really liking six gill tattoo these guys are amazing and its worth the travel. THey are next on my list.

booked for my first session nov 5th :D...any tips for before and after?

Before: get lots of sleep, have a big breakfast. If it's a long session, bring food with you as well.

After: Listen to your artist, do what he says. Don't ask us, don't google it.

thanks for the list skinnypup and whatitdew, i found another place i stumbled on
Album 2 « Gallery 1 « Gallery | Strictly Tattoo Gallery
recently opened this summer and both str8 from japan, shit looks good haha, will go in person and see them

^same place I'm going :)
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It's open?
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yea since august lol, in the end i decided with andrea from triggerhappy :D next half sleeve coming soon

Wento to monkey king and spoke with jeff he's a year and a half wait, damn....... But said brando was available, on the website I didn't see any of his work, just wondering if anyones ever heard of him or has gotten work done by him
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2 sittings here 4.5 hours on the decapitated samurai head and 3 hours on the wind bars and maples ect.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g3...w/IMG_7851.jpg

where you getting all this done at?

marky @ rain city tattoos,.. check 'em out !!

RAIN CITY TATTOO

almost 3 hours today

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g3...w/IMG_8174.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g3...w/IMG_8180.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...0-09at2333.jpg

Done by Kirk Sheppard @ Adrenaline on Granville

Need to get it touched up as there are some cracks of it when it was healing and scabs peeled off. (is this normal? to have lines from where the scabs peeled?)

i know kirk realy well,. he's @ rain city tattoos now,.. he was hangin out while i was getting inked, him and my artist (marky) are good friends and i'v become friends with all,..

I was introduced to Kirk as my friend works with his wife.

He's a great guy, and is very professional at his work.

yes great guy!

can anyone suggest a good artist that doesn't have very long booking times? im just looking for something really simple - script writing.

shoko sonoda is interested in doing my left half sleeve :D:D:D time to get money and go for it haha

First session finished...ill put up pics tmr
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sweet, lookin forward to it !!

cant wait to see it!