Jesse Neese

Tattooing since 1999, Jesse specializes in Cover-ups and multiple-session elaborate projects, often complex and covering large areas of the body. He has mastered both Color and Black and Grey, in a full range of styles from portraiture and realism to illustration, abstraction, surrealism and graffiti. He often emphasizes Faux textures, stone, metal, embroidery, three-dimensional illusion, realistic shadowing and dramatic lighting effects. 

Historical art styles like woodcuts and etchings as well as comic books, graffiti, and fantasy art are his inspiration. His tattoo work and artwork have been featured in several international publications, and regularly win awards.

Jesse makes sure to give every client the best tattoo possible. He cares about their tattoo, and that it is done with the best possible equipment, pigments, and in the cleanest environment. 

He does not charge extra to draw custom pieces, and often spends significant amounts of time researching, finding references, and drawing preliminary sketches to create unique all-custom tattoos for each client. Jesse gives the same attention to small tattoos as it’s just as important that folks have them done safely and excellently.

From 1992 until 2000, Jesse studied all aspects of visual art, art history, theatrical design and faux painting at the University of Nebraska’s Omaha campus eventually graduating with degrees in both Studio Art and Dramatic Arts.

He is a member of the Alliance of Professional Tattooists (APT), and strongly promotes their ethics of safe and responsible tattooing. Since 2010, he has been an instructor for the APT’s Preventing Disease Transmission in Tattooing seminar, and served on their BoD for 15 years. He now serves as an advisor to the BoD and is currently on the Body Art Committee for the National Environmental Health Association.