10/05/2026
🏆I NEED MY CLIENTS! 🏆
To everyone I’ve tattooed over the years: if you’re free this weekend, I’d LOVE for you to come down to Milwaukee and enter the tattoos I’ve done on you into the competitions at the Villain Arts Tattoo Convention!
Every tattoo you guys wear represents hours of work, trust, creativity, and years of me building my craft. If you’re willing to take the time to come down, show off our work and enter it — I genuinely appreciate the hell out of you. 🙏🏼
📍 Baird Center — Downtown Milwaukee
📅 October 9–11
💰 Contest entry: $10 per entry
You can enter healed tattoos I’ve already done on you in the regular categories below. Tattoo of the Day is different — that tattoo must be started AND finished at the convention that same day.
🔥 SATURDAY — Judging starts at 5 PM
Specialty Categories:
• Best Portrait — Color
• Best Portrait — Black & Gray
• Best Traditional
• Most Unusual
• Best Lettering
COLOR — Male & Female divisions:
• Small — 4” × 4” and smaller
• Medium — up to 8” × 8”
• Large — up to 12” × 12”
• XL — bigger than 12” × 12”
BLACK & GRAY — Male & Female divisions:
• Small — 4” × 4” and smaller
• Medium — up to 8” × 8”
• Large — up to 12” × 12”
• XL — bigger than 12” × 12”
🔥 SUNDAY — Judging starts at 5 PM
• Original Flash
• Best Painting
• Small Color — 4” × 4” and smaller
• Small Black & Gray — 4” × 4” and smaller
• Medium Color — up to 8” × 8”
• Medium Black & Gray — up to 8” × 8”
• Large Color — up to 12” × 12”
• Large Black & Gray — up to 12” × 12”
• XL Color — bigger than 12” × 12”
• XL Black & Gray — bigger than 12” × 12”
• Sleeve
• Hand/Neck Tattoo
• Japanese
• Leg Sleeve
• Best Melanated Tattoo
• Color Infused Black & Gray
• Color Realism
• Black & Gray Realism
• Geometric / Tribal
• Chest Piece
• Back Piece
• Anime
• Overall — Male
• Overall — Female
• Cover-Up — before & after pictures required
🏆 Tattoo of the Day judging is also held throughout the weekend in Color and Black & Gray, but again, those pieces must be tattooed start to finish that day.
Overall: 1st, 2nd & 3rd receive trophies + artist plaques.
Tattoo of the Day: 1st–5th receive trophies + artist plaques.
If you have a piece from me that fits ANY of these categories, especially my black & gray realism, portraits, sleeves, large pieces, cover-ups, lettering or geometric work, HIT ME UP! I want to get as much of my work on that stage as we can. 🏆🔥
And seriously — thank you to every client willing to drive to Milwaukee, spend their time, and put our work up for judging. Whether we bring home a trophy or not, having you show up and represent my work means a lot to me.
LET’S BRING SOME HARDWARE HOME. 🏆
— Danon Watson
Pain & Patience Tattoo
Gallery 83 Tattoo Co.
TenFold The Collection
