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]]>Working within imaginary lines, Nam manages to capture serene moments and beautiful landscapes in great detail on her clients’ bodies. They are presented in narrow frames that stretch vertically across the skin while often featuring elements that pop out and break the illusion of confinement.
Nam, who has been working as a tattoo artist for the past seven years, is primarily inspired by traditional Korean art and decoration. However, her works also feature pop culture elements and scenes from movies, TV shows, and anime.
“I like the beauty of the old things, from the beautiful colors to paintings with traditional beauty as well as traditional decorations that are not used in modern times. Aside from that, the scenery I see and a beautiful scene from a movie can be sources for my tattoo work,” she shared in a recent interview with Things & Ink magazine.
Nam works out of a studio in the Itaewon district in South Korea’s capital, Seoul. Anyone interested in getting one of her unique vertical tattoos can reach out through social media. Continue scrolling to check out more of her amazing works.
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]]>Debossing is a technique in which a design is imprinted into a material to create a depressed effect. Using various techniques and tricks, Gulliver manages to achieve this effect on the client’s skin using only ink.
Gulliver’s social media pages are full of debossed tattoos, and each one is more impressive than the others. They include imprinted symbols, lettering, animals, and many more.
For example, one of his designs saw him creating a “missing puzzle” on a client’s arm. It shows two puzzle pieces that are seemingly missing from the arm, and it is so convincing that you would have a hard time realizing it is an optical illusion even if you had seen it in person.
Gulliver also creates various other tattoo designs, including 3D tattoos and embossed tattoos, with the latter featuring an elevated effect. However, debossed pieces remain his most impressive works. Check out more of them below.
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]]>Baldwin’s favorite song is Talking Heads’ hit track “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody).” A year ago, this Liverpool, UK native came up with an idea to make a lyrics music video for the 1983 hit track using tattoos.
Baldwin reached out to fellow tattoo enthusiasts in order to see whether they would be interested in getting a custom tattoo with one of the lines from “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody).” After finding enough volunteers, she went on to create a unique tattoo design for every line and ink it on the skin of the participants.
After wrapping up the tattoos, Baldwin recently made the final edition of the music video and shared it on TikTok. And it is safe to say that the results are amazing.
Every single tattoo created by Baldwin can stand out by itself while also creating a masterpiece when put together.
@rachelbaldwintattoo I made a music video for my favourite song
♬ This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) [2005 Remaster] – Talking Heads. . Thank you to everyone that came and got something for this project! I finished it almost a year ago but this year has been MENTAL so I’ve only just got around to editing it. . . Part two coming tomorrow
#talkingheads
@rachelbaldwintattoo ♬ This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) [2005 Remaster] – Talking Heads
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Baldwin’s lyrics music video for “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” ended up getting a lot of attention and praise from other TikTok users.
“never thought every line of a song could make a good tattoo until now,” one TikToker wrote.
“Okay, but every one of these lyrics is perfectly portrayed in your art,” another added.
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]]>Pet tattoos are becoming increasingly popular, and at the forefront of this trend is Korean tattoo artist Ria Kim. She provides her clients with amazingly realistic pet portrait tattoos that perfectly capture the likeness of animals while also adding elements that highlight their personalities.
Kim has been deeply passionate about art and animals since a young age. Pursuing her passion for art, she picked up tattooing in 2018 but didn’t want to do conventional tattoos. Instead, she wanted to focus on something close to her heart, which is how she turned to pet portraits.
Since then, Kim has become one of the top choices for people who want to get a tattoo of their pet. She has clients from all over the world and enjoys the fact that she can celebrate the bond between humans and their pets.
“Each tattoo allows me to celebrate the bond between people and their pets, which is something I deeply cherish,” Kim shared in a recent chat with Bored Panda.
Scroll down to see why Kim’s pet portrait tattoos are so popular.
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]]>Keith Anderson is a loving dad from Ontario with a passion for tattoos. His son, Kai, loves drawing, and Keith, who’s been watching him grow and change so quickly over the years, has decided to combine the two most important things in his life – his son and tattoos – into something unique. Every year, Keith picks on of Kai’s drawing, sets up an appointment in his local tattoo parlor, and tattoos that painting on his arm.
Keith started tattooing his son’s art on his body when Kai was 5. It was a way to keep his son close, and to celebrate his childhood forever. Keith has been tattooing Kai’s drawings ever since and will continue to do so until Kai doesn’t want to do it anymore. But for now, Kai seems to be completely on board – he even accompanied Keith to his last session and helped the tattoo artist. We hope he stays on board for a long time – and that Keith keeps celebrating his love for his son for many more years.
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]]>Volpi started doing tattoos five years ago after a friend noticed her affection towards detailed art and recommended her to buy a tattooing starter kit. She immediately fell in love with tattoo art, and after experimenting with different styles and techniques, discovered that blackwork is her favorite.
In her tattoo works, Volpi only uses black ink and the client’s skin in order to “paint a picture.” By drawing fine lines and dotwork, she is able to create clean and minimalistic tattoos that are both pleasing and effective.
Most of her art revolves around nature, geometry and human anatomy. Check out more of them below.
Thank you again Kesley! – #conceptual
– #fornasetti
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Karadagis is not only skilled in inking – he’s interested in other art forms as well, such as creating handmade ancient Greek musical instruments, sculptures, and watercolor or pencil drawings.
Nevertheless, he realized that human skin was his favorite material to work with. “While making art, I realized that a person’s body is the most valuable material and that I want to make people happy when they look at my work on their bodies… I don’t think there’s anything more gratifying than carrying the fairytale design that one imagines in his body all his life,” the artist wrote for Bored Panda.
Karadagis says that his art is “his everything” and it’s mostly inspired by nature, animals and all those childhood memories that his clients hold dear.
“I’m passionate about nature and animals because I believe that the more dependent we are on nature, the more free we are as individuals.”
Check out his dreamy tattoo artworks in the photos below.
#balloons #balloontattoo #naturelovers
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]]>Rose’s skills were especially showcased in one of her recent tattoo works when she covered the client’s entire back with an elaborate tattoo that contained all the elements of her recognizable style. The outcome was truly stunning as the tattoo ended up resembling the work of a classical painter.
Would love to tattoo more clients who are willing and committed to let me make such large pieces 
Rose’s painting-like tattoos aren’t a surprise when you know her first passion was painting.
“The feel and the mood brought through by my color palette and my style of tattooing is influenced by the way I like to paint and now vice versa as I spend a lot more time tattooing, they lend interestingly to each other,” she explained in a recent interview with Colossal.
Check out some of Rose’s other tattoo works below.
I currently have no future plans made for the USA and will be settling down in New Zealand after travellling the last two incredible years 
Made this gardening piece with a trowel and florals yesterday. Would love to make more gardening tool pieces! So nice to meet you lovely. Thanks again! Made with #love #oztattskincare #stencilstuff #quickcaps #fytcartridges 
thanks again lovely! Made with #love #fytcartridges #oztattskincare #stencilstuff #quickcaps
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]]>Honing her craft by practicing first on her friends, she started out by working out of a private loft space in her friends’ apartment. “I was doing it on the down-low, and I was on edge because it wasn’t an official shop,” she told The Great Discontent. It wasn’t until 2012 that she opened her own shop.
“The biggest challenge was that I was unable to get an apprenticeship because there wasn’t anyone who could teach me this form of tattooing,” she says. “Because of that, I literally just tried out a bunch of different methods until it felt right, and then I tweaked it as I went.”
Nowadays, her process is relatively straight forward. “When clients come in, I already have a good idea of what they want, because at that point we’ll have already emailed or talked about it over the phone,” she says. “Then I draw up the design and get the A-OK from the client before making a stencil. Once the stencil is made, I put it onto the person’s skin, and we decide on a placement that they like. Then we make it happen. The setup is clean and sterile, and everything is the same setup as it is with a machine, except for the tools I’m using.”
A palm-sized tattoo usually takes between 1-2 hours, a hand sized one takes 3 hours but back pieces can vary from 22- 40 hours depending on the size, detail, and coverage. Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below:
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Tattoo artist, known simply as Roxx, puts the art in “tattoo art.” Using the human body as her canvas, her work is bold, geometric, and very much striking. So much so that it was featured in a 2017 exhibition in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). “Tattoo to me is the enhancement and adornment of what nature has already given us,” stated the LA-based artist in an interview with Dazed & Confused.
Daisy Watson
Inspired by Picasso, Cocteau, and Jean Arp, Daisy Watson uses thin black lines to create surrealist tattoos with a playful twist. “My drawings are never too serious or boring,” said the Berlin-based tattoo artist in an interview with femtastics. “At least I hope so. I would call my style surrealistic.”
Tati Compton
California-born tattoo artist Tati Compton (real name Tatiana Kartomten) has made a name for herself thanks to her “stick-n-poke” technique. “I started doing tattoos on an impetus – for an experience or out of boredom or from a feeling and it didn’t really matter how it looked or turned out,” she admitted in an interview with Tattoo Life. “It was more about the act and experience. It was free – I didn’t have to ask anyone for anything – It was DIY, it was immediate, and it was fun. I don’t know how to use a machine, this is the only way I know how to tattoo.” The end result is undeniably cool.
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