Brazilian Tattoo artist Gregorio Marangoni combines dot work and line work in this tattoo design. Using dots to create shades in tattoos is called dot work, dotwork or pointillism. This technique requires thousands of tiny tattoo dots to build up shades of color in the tattoo design. In this tattoo, the dots are most apparent along the edges of the optical illusion cubes.
Marangoni often combines nature, geometry and spiritual symbols like mandalas to create beautiful, meaningful tattoo designs. You can see more of his tattoo art in Animals, Illusions and Dot work Tattoos by Gregorio Marangoni Another artist who uses the same tattoo technique and similar subject matter is Thomas Hooper. You can read about his tattoo work in Thomas Hooper’s Sacred Geometry Tattoos
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Animals, Illusions and Dot work Tattoos by Gregorio Marangoni
Gregorio Marangoni is a tattoo artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. Working only in black tattoo ink, Marangoni creates tattoos that have intricate details and lots of texture. To create the textures and details, Marangoni uses a combination of line work and dot work, using smooth lines to create and then shading and texturing the […]