The japanese stuff is cool.

theres no reason you couldnt do a mans ruin half sleeve. Its just an idea, you can compose it many different ways.

usually it will start to flake and peel. After that it will look kind of shiny, and the skin wont quite look right yet. Its just that the skin isnt completely healed and back to normal. Usually from the shiny point its a week or two and then it should be back to normal. If you are talking about spots where the color is just missing, this could have happened from excessive scabbing and will need to be touched up by your artist.

the pics are kinda blurry, but from what I can tell it looks pretty rad. The shapes and flow in most of it are pretty good.

it may be a little to out there for you, but how a bout just a simple silhouette of a man playing a guitar. Literally its simple man.

Never get tattooed at someones house!!!!! Why? Almost everyone tattooing out of their house is going to be poorly trained and more than likely, really unsanitary. This means you are going to end up with a substandard tattoo with a high likely hood of catching a nasty disease.That being said, a safe, clean, high quality tattoo can be performed quite a few places by a highly trained professional tattoo artist.

yeah go with the shorter version, and horizontal across the neck.