A sleeve is not a collection of tattoos on an arm. It is one image wrapped around a moving cylinder, and the difference is decided before the first needle goes in.
The parts nobody plans are the ones that ruin sleeves: the inner arm, the elbow ditch, and where the image stops at the wrist and the shoulder.
Multiple full days spread across months, with healing time between each. The number depends on how dense the design is, not on how fast the artist works.
Yes, as long as the full arm is designed now. Extending an unplanned half sleeve usually means covering part of what you already paid for.
Yes, noticeably, and so does the elbow ditch. They are also the parts that most often need a touch up.
Black and grey holds its contrast longer and reads better from a distance, which is what a sleeve is seen from. That is what this portfolio is.
Requests go straight to Federico, not to an agency inbox. He answers from his own address.