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Over the years there have been a lot of takes on the “torn away flesh” tattoo. I think this is the first one I’ve seen where a football club kit was used as the underlying layer.
For those wondering, that’s the shirt for Grêmio, a Brazilian football club based out of Porto Alegre. The artist is credited as Mana Tattoo, from Scorpions Tattoo RS in Porto Alegre.
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BMEtv is back with another look at last year’s world tour! Rob Abell is another one of the talented artists from Dynamic Tattoo in Melbourne. Here he is talking about how he got involved in tattooing and what he sees as trends in tattoos in Australia.
To check out the video, keep on reading!
If you’ve missed any of the videos so far, you can check out the rest of them in the BME World Tour Video Gallery
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Last week Sean posted a fantastic collaborative scarification piece by Christiano Aeilli and Lewis Dodd. Going back through the galleries another scar by Christiano alone caught my eye.
I’ve been seeing a lot of artists blend together cutting and branding in their scarification pieces, but most of the time the branding is used as a form of shading. Here Christiano is using the branding to create a pattern in the scar that will heal differently than the cutting portion, ideally leaving the final scar with a nice degree of contrast between the two sections. Keep an eye on Christiano’s gallery, and hopefully we’ll see a follow-up of this piece.
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Are you blind? It’s a lonely tear drop!
Given the size of this little portrait, I’d guess that Mario Sanchez used a single needle for this one. He’s got quite a few micro portraits in his BME gallery, including a number of ones done on knuckles.
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Well it turns out some of them are. Greek artist Stefanos from Nico Tattoo Crew in Thessaloniki sent in these photos of some horn implants he upgraded. To start with, here’s the horns as they were before the increase in size.
Here they are after the first implant replacement.
And the finished product.
While these photos show you the size comparison, the photos in the 3D-implant gallery show you Stefanos doing the procedure.
