After a four trimesters at Savannah College of Art and Design before the funds ran out he began an apprenticeship with Albie Rock, and then started tattooing full time in 2005.

In the meanwhile he developed his illustrative style, exploring digital art, and having fun with anything he could get his hands on – watercolor, acrylics, spray paint, scraps of paper etc…

He then moved to Turnpike Tattoo and began to focus the bulk of his time on attracting an awesome clientele and building up his tattooing portfolio with custom, original pieces.

Shawn says “I like to start with a customer’s early concept, flesh it out with sketches, and bring it to completion with the tattooing process. It gives me lots of personal satisfaction to work so closely with the customer and help their ideas take shape. I’m always looking for ways to push my art and tattooing skills to new places, making every piece as dynamic as I can.”

Shawn’s work has a very organic and illustrative feel, with themes exploring life and death, the natural world vs. humanity, and anything beautiful with a hint of darkness or grotesque.

SHAWN HEBRANK’S SITE

New updates are now available at his site, Fresh visuals for your eyes including the new B-Siders CD art

Also next month Tribal Gear will have a FULL PAGE AD in Juxtapoze Magazine featuring MUNK ONE artwork.

MUNK ONE
Fine Art, Illustration, Tattoos.
MUNK ONE WEBSITE

That’s where you’d find a guy with a white tee shirt, an oily grey pompadour and heavily tattooed arms, once known to seamen and still known to tattoo aficionados as “Sailor Jerry.”

He’s the man many see as the father of the deftly crafted, boldly lined, balls-forward Old School Tattoo. The kind fuelled by the devil-may-care appetites of men far away from home.

But for now although Sailor Jerry died in 1973 you can now buy tees, jackets and more from this innovator…fuck Ed Hardy this is the real deal.

THE SAILOR JERRY WEB SITE

I once rented a flat above a tattoo parlor in Winchester… “Painless Bobs” no really that was his name, he had an apprentice Tony… one day he and I got a bit pissed and stoned and I decided to let him tattoo me with a squigley mother earth third eye protection symbol thing (it was the early nineties and techno hippy was in) that I made up in about 30 seconds.

This time round though I’m going to Aloha tattoos in Barcelona to be tattooed by Monga… I’m going for a full sleeve floral design… roses and peonies and leaves…kinda Japanese kinda William Morris wallpaper type thing…hmmm.

The fashion at the moment is very much toward the “old school” Sailor Jerry style (black cats, pin up girls, lucky 13’s and eight balls) which you may know from the Ed Hardy tee shirt brand… its not really my style, for one thing I’m not a 1940’s sailor nor am I the drummer in a west coast “rawk” band.
Check out the work at…

www.alohatattoos.com

www.donedhardy.com