I enjoy and am inspired by tight, precise, technically perfect and imaginative drawing... owning and viewing such work fills my gut with a actual physical happiness that I try like hell to reproduce with my own work, on paper and skin, and only sometimes succeed---- so I'm going to rate this book by percentages on how much of it makes the grade. About 40% of the large and beautifully reproduced pages are filled with the kind of work that really kick my ass, the masterful stuff that truly deserves to be there. Another 40% is good stuff, done well enough... and the remaining 20% is mostly dreck that should never have seen print--- just as expert artwork inspires me , crappy stuff offends me.
Having said all that, this book is inspired by tattooing, but is not meant as a flash book, ready to show customers. It could serve as a spring board for ideas for custom work though. If you are looking for excellent VATO style designs, I would highly recommend BOOG's big 148 page flash book, ready to trace off and make a stencil. This book is for your ART BOOK shelf ( mine is bulging already...)