Han Shinko

Essen, Germany

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10 Questions with Han

1. FAVOURITE PLACE THAT YOU'VE TRAVELLED?
My favourite place will be New York City when I went for the NYC tattoo convention and was my first convention while I was still an apprentice, just to visit and learn new stuff

2. FEAR OF?
Well if you must know my fear would be two things, heights and dentists

3. WHAT IS ON YOUR BUCKET LIST?
My bucket list would be a Mercedes G class & a big nice house with my wife & cats

4. DOGS OR CATS?
Well cats, because I have four of them

5. IF YOU COULD LEARN ANYTHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
If I could learn something now I would learn how to fix and build motor bikes and custom cars

6. EARLY BIRD OR NIGHT OWL?
Honestly few years back when I was in my hometown Singapore I was always a night owl but now even since I met my wife, I've been an early bird since so I would say early bird

7. WHAT IS THE SCARIEST AND/OR HARDEST THING YOU'VE DONE?
Well the scariest and the hardest thing I've done was going through the navy seas. I was in the Navy for two years of my life. That was tough but indeed I learn new things at the same time

8. SOMEONE YOU'D LIKE TO MEET?
There's no particular someone I would like to meet. In fact I would like to meet every inspirational and artistic person, and people who helped me a lot on my works for getting known out there. People like you guys!

9. FAVOURITE QUOTE?
More like a often used word "Why?"

10. WHAT GOT YOU STARTED IN TATTOOING?

Well, when I got my first tattoo, which was a nautical star on my back when I was 15, I was already painting as a kid and I found it as a good career for me as I was never good at my studies.

So I did a huge portfolio and went around all the top/best tattoo shops in Singapore and got it when I went to the second shop. If you want to learn, you have to learn from the best.