For realistic tattoo in particular, the skin becomes a true canvas! The tattoo gun with its ink and needles takes the place of pencils and watercolours, tempera and oils, creating images that seem to live and breathe.
Even the terminology used in this style brings the fine arts to mind: colour palette, chiaroscuro, highlights, three-dimensionality and trompe l’oeil are among the words used to describe the tattoos in this gallery.
Portraits of celebrities and ordinary people, famous scenes from movies, smouldering eyes, details of animal fur and the carapace of insects all appear in these pages, a testimony to the undisputed talent of the artists.
See our choice for you and find your favourite realistic tattoo!
Yomico Moreno, Yomico Art Studio, New York, USA
Tony Mancia, Stygian Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Thomas Carli Jarlier, Noire Ink Tattoo Parlour, Clermont Ferrand, France
Paul Marino, Grave Tattoo Shop, North Brunswick, USA
Nikko Hurtado, Black Anchor, Hesperia, USA
David Benjamin Kaye, Ship Shape Tattoo, Auckland, New Zealand
Diogo Nunes, Private Studio, Fonte da Telha, Portugal
Evan Olin, Powerline Tattoo, Cranston, USA
John Maxx, Radical Ink, Bucharest, Romania
Luka Lajoie, The Arts Corporation, Montreal, Canada
Matteo Pasqualin, Artigiano Tatuatore, Brembate, Italy
Stefan Müller, Black Rainbow Tattoo Theatre, Zwickau, Germany
