Kirk Nilsen was born in 1987 in the historical town of New Brunswick in New Jersey, USA. Nilsen has always been involved in creative pursuits, spending several years performing in international music acts and designing album covers for bands and record labels. He apprenticed himself to an older tattoo artist and began experimenting with dot […]
Tattoo artist Henry Puhnarevich uses this elegantly simple video to show how he creates his dotwork tattoos. We see him design the tattoo, which includes esoteric elements and sacred geometry before placing the stencil on his client’s skin, completing the outlines and then adding thousands of ink dots to create texture and shading. The more […]
Pierluigi Deliperi works out of the Tattoo Crew Production studio in Sardinia, Italy, specializing in mind-warping geometric tattoos. Many of his designs include optical illusions that appear to transform the shape of the human body; adding an extra dimension to the reality of the tattoo wearer’s skin. Using geometric shapes, such as checkers, cubes and repetitive […]
This video shows how two tattoo artists from the Borneo Headhunter Tattoo studio in East Malaysia work together to create a traditional Iban tattoo. The tattoo artist uses two sticks, one with a needle attached to the end, the other a plain piece of wood. After dipping the needle in ink, the artist uses the […]