Skeleton ink drawing

As with any art form, tattoo design offers a lot of variety. Tattoo styles can be very simplistic or highly elaborate, monochrome or full of color, and can be executed with various techniques. But is there one tattoo style that combines many different types? Oh yes, there is. Let us introduce you to simple fine-line tattoos.

Pen drawing of the bones of a hand. Drawing by Emily Gerbig

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As you might've realized from our publications on the Facebook group 'What in the $20 wish tattoo machine is this?' or the 'That's It, I'm Inkshaming' group, sadly, subpar tattoos are pretty common. Which makes the good ones even more admirable.

Brooklyn-based artist Guno Park evokes the tradition of memento mori with an exquisite new drawing highlighting the precarious line between life and death. Titled “Nature of Things,” the meticulously crosshatched piece rendered in graphite stands at a striking 85 inches, portraying the oversized human figure with botanicals winding around its spinal column and through itsContinue reading "Vines and Flowers Intertwine with an Imposing Skeleton in an Elegant Graphite Drawing by Guno Park"

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton, England, 1840 Attributed to John Linnell (1792-1882)

Bones of the torso: front view. Ink and watercolour, 1830/1835?, after W. Cheselden, ca. 1733. | Wellcome Collection