Tattoo Instructional I was just a misfit punk rocker trying to make it in NYC in 1998, and despite being in galleries and interviewing with big publishers, I just couldn't rely on art to pay my bills. On the advice...

First convention of the year! I'll be in Detroit next weekend, March 6th-8th, at the Motor City Expo. As usual, anyone who wants something really cool (or realistic), I love portraits and screenshots. Hit me up, and I'll cut you...

Tattoo Instructional After books, videos, magazine articles, and countless seminars, I'm now following in the footsteps of many of my favorite artists and sharing tips about how I approach my craft. This isn't "tattoo school", get your foot in the...

Tattoo Snobs I see a lot of people talking down Friday the 13th tattoos. Those are the gatekeepers of the modern spoiled-brat variety. The kind of people who care more about looking cool to their peers than about being real...

Indie Comic star Laurie talks with me about her 9th Kickstarter campaign for the next act of her ongoing comic series Path of the Pale Rider. A former writer and actress from Detroit, she started a film script that...

I added a shirt (with a deep discount for the first 13 days) and created a merch link on my website for my Lovecraft creations. Join the madness, and help support indie art! https://danhenk.com/merch/

My latest writing! As I spend the day writing my new novel, just a reminder that you can get a glimpse of my latest writing via the four short stories I've published recently in anthologies! https://tinyurl.com/mn7nedd https://tinyurl.com/4cyvy3v4 https://tinyurl.com/ycxdy272 https://tinyurl.com/ympejykx Keep up with my latest releases...

My New Novel! As I write my new novel, I've been watching a lot of documentaries on both the Nazi invasion of Europe and the tactics of the Vietcong. With a little of the lore of Graham Hancock mixed in. A...

New Novel! It's been 7 years. 7 years of spending too much of my energy on a failing shop. Sure, I put out 6 shorts and 2 anthologies in that time, but it's been way too long. Today, as a new year...

The progression of my tattoo career. After being labeled as "the Giger guy"  early in my career, I grew tired of constantly repeating designs Giger had already illustrqated on paper. Tattoos have a whole different set of contrast and focus...