Three days, a limited number of appointments, black & grey portrait realism. Booking is open now and closes when the days are full.
Convention dates and tickets are handled by Villain Arts. Check their page before you book travel.
Milwaukee is three days. Booked properly that is either three separate one day pieces, or the first serious block of a large one.
If you are traveling in for this, say so in the form: how far you are coming changes how the days get planned, and he needs to know before the schedule fills.
He worked this convention in 2025 and is coming back for 2026. Milwaukee is also an easy drive from a lot of the Midwest, which is why this stop fills up: Chicago is about ninety minutes south, Madison about an hour and a half west, Green Bay two hours north, and Minneapolis is a long but single day drive. Federico has worked Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha before, so if you missed him at one of those, this is the closest he gets this year.
Yes. Everyone entering the convention floor needs a ticket from the organizer, including people who are only there for their appointment. Buy it separately from booking the tattoo.
Sometimes, for something small, if a slot opens. For anything that needs a drawing, ask before the weekend: the days fill up in advance and a portrait cannot be designed on the spot.
A single portrait on a forearm or a calf is a realistic one day piece. A sleeve or a back is started, not finished, and continued at the next stop or in Italy.
The reference photo, in the best quality you have. For a portrait, a sharp, well lit photograph decides most of the result. A phone screenshot of a screenshot does not.
The setup is the same equipment, single-use, on a licensed floor. The difference is noise and time: it is a good place for a defined, self-contained piece, and a fine place to start a big one.
Send the request, agree the piece and the day with Federico by email, and he tells you how the deposit works. Nothing is held on a form alone.
Say what you want, where on the body, and whether you are traveling in.
Requests go straight to Federico, not to an agency inbox. He answers from his own address.