Chapters include:

1. Milestones In Tattoo History A brief history on the art of tattooing.

2. My Personal Journey As A Tattoo Artist Mike Devries talks about his early days

3. Reference Laying the groundwork for a tattoo and the importance of using a quality reference.

4. Placement Choosing the correct placement for flow and fit.

5. Stencil Mike describes his stencil application techniques and offers a HUGE plug for stencil stuff.

6. Set-Up: Machines, Ink, Needles & More Mainly talks about Neuma machines. Discusses his preferred ink brands and colours he uses, skin tone palettes and needle types.

7. Applying Colour Theory To Realistic Tattooing Everything you need to know about colour and using the colour wheel to select background colours, complimentary colours etc

8. Creativity Using your creativity to make designs from reference and your head.

9. Technique When to line, when not to line.... Starting points, highlights, Needle techniques, skintone, palette and colour richness, Keeping your colours flowing, value & complimentary colours, light source, rotated lines, hair, cover ups, monochromatic tattoo, size location and overlaps, a recurring observation, what's the rush?

10. Photographing Your Art Work Tells all about cameras, aperture, shutter, point and shoots, DSLR's, settings, optimal photography conditions and more.

11. Presentation Printing and displaying your work in a portfolio.

12. Aftercare A brief description of his aftercare technique.

13. Gallery A stack of photos of Mike Devries works.