1. Amanda Wachob in Brooklyn, N.Y
Amanda Wachob experienced her first tattooing in 1998. She was a photography graduates and had no idea with her newly got higher education tittle. One day her friend offered her to be an apprenticeship in a tattoo parlor, which was when she began to engage with tattoo’s world. She was conducted her apprenticeship in the Hudson Valley of New York.
Wachob’s works are mostly irregular and contemporary style with colorful and abstract shape. She doesn’t follow the traditional style that is still holding a strict habit that tattoo must contain certain meaning. Her works reflecting freedom taught and break the conventional tattoo boundaries such as usage of one color (mostly black), tribal form (commonly large-single size), and so on. Her tattoos are mostly scratching abstract blends that are usually appears on a canvass faced by painting artist. However, it seems she is trying to bring those canvass-based painting on human’s skin. It is clearly visible in every her work, she is using such a magnificent color combination that so divers, beside, she attempts to create new color through its combination.

2. Chaim Machlev in Berlin, Germany
His works are tended to paint geometrical concepts which bring extremely symmetric formation. But, in the other hand, his other works put an abstract formation that still drawn in lines, dots, and symmetric mosaic. One of his work picture in lines formation can be simply described as drawing with some pens (let’s say 5 pens adjacently), which respectively following the same line going to the same direction and forming such irregular shape. Meanwhile, the mosaic form that is drawn by using symmetric formation remains in certain body spot (e.g. on arm, leg, or back). For comparison, the line tattoo formation he made can be formed longer (from upper shoulder to arm).

3. Alice Carrier in Portland, Ore
If you are thinking conventional tattoo has an obsolete style to pick, try to discover new thing with nature elements. You might be regarded in attempting to summon backyard garden into your skin as childhood awesome unforgettable memories. However, your friend will be soon surprised realizing your tattoo has an outstanding picture draw.
She is Alice Carrier, a natural-style tattoo artist. Her tattoos are mostly adapts natural elements such as foliage, flower, and animal particularly in detail representation. Alice’s works are tend to use dark color combination to make contrast and distinct view distinguish the tattoo color with human skin color (mostly appears on bright skin). Her natural tattoos concept are always put obviously detail illustration, including color combination and gradation technic. She usually use color combinations that are not too distinct but still easy to synchronize.

4. Ien Levin in Kiev, Ukraine
Ien specify himself on painting skin with totally black ink without allowing other distinct color intervenes his dark atmosphere. His style is combining old-fashioned conventional picture with unusual form become such meaningful illustration. His works are mostly symbol containing certain meaning and value according to how his customers want to be seen. His drawings are also look “picture inside picture” style, where each picture represents certain meaning as well as the other. By looking each symbol created by Ien, you can freely interpret values conceived or ever message he is trying to deliver.
Symbols drawn by Ien consist of natural element such as animal and plant. He also use other formation such as geometrical shape that is disguised in bias combination with natural element or abstract illustration. An unusual typical abstracts are also including his standpoint while putting his finger on human skin. Some of his works appear as single-large tattoo in certain body part, meanwhile small shapes are also visible pictured as well.

5. David Hale in Athens, Ga
David is a tattoo artist that works at complex illustration. If there is a simple object requires few “polishing” to make it proper display, David want more than it. He creates more detail description that shows his unfulfilled satisfaction leaving a picture remains ordinary. He attempts to make an extraordinary picture by adding more line and other additional illustration, and eventually turn the picture into facetious character. He prefers to melt the stiffness down and bring up livelier characteristic into pictures he has drawn.

6. Kenji Alucky from Hokkaido, Japan
If Chaim Machlev works with symmetric geometric formation and David Hale puts his finger on specific tribal illustration, Kenji seems to combine both styles into unique arrangement. Being drawn by him will enclose you into what so called Maori-like tribal body painting, but still with artificial artistic modification.
Kenji is known for a dotting technique called stippling. His tattoos employ geometric and tribal motifs, and beg to be inspected up close. Each motifs are included multi-dot constructing particular shape, can be geometrical formation or abstract illustration. Some of his works also appears as Arabian/Indian henna with symmetric details and color gradation. However, it still made of dots.

7. Marcin Aleksander Surowiec in Warsaw, Poland
Marcin uses incredibly vibrant inks to achieve his brand of highly vivid surrealist tattoos. His works are combining colorful ink, drawing such a powerful creation. It slightly resembles canvases based paintings that are usually shown on art exhibition. Displaying colorful ink which is combined by unusual imagination, Surowiec is trying to deliver message through his artwork. Those meaningful pictures usually contain criticisms, specific devotion, and other human emotional expression.

8. Madame Chän in Berlin, Germany
Simple and colorful, that’s all. I think those are best words to describe how a tattoo artist nicknamed Madame Chan express her taught into human skin canvass. One of Chan’s works appears as if it is comic illustration or more properly suit for folktale’s page artistic draw.
Madame Chän does a few different styles, but my favorite ones are the dreamy, chimerical tattoos she specializes in.

9. Mariusz Trubisz in Wroclaw, Poland
Mariusz has a flair for shading and creating incredibly vibrant tattoos that are practically neon. With colorful ink combination, his works resemble those conducted by Madame Chan. However, it’s more complicated illustrations that conceive metaphoric symbol make them as if “walk out” of its ordinary structure.
Trubisz might create such an ordinary picture become more meaningful by putting more additional scratches. A picture can be simply appears as certain person’s photograph or specific animal in its definite shape, but other artificial touches seem mark them up extraordinary.

10. Ondrash in Znojmo, Czech Republic
Ondrash is practically becoming a household name due to the raging popularity of the watercolor tattoos he specializes in. His attempt is displaying outstanding “skin paints” reflecting mind freedom of using water color, fortunately it resembles as most canvas-based painting by respectable painting artist. An extremely fantastic illustration is always spotted in every his work. One thing makes him is his drawing is seems ignoring “tattooing etiquettes”.
Nevertheless, arts never take any strict/stiff rules for granted. Arts are a beyond-the-limit mind expression. Arts can be embodied as tattoo.

11. Sasha Unisex in St. Petersburg, Russia
Sasha’s tattoos are like vibrant prisms with unexpected colors that shine through. The lack of outlines and brilliant shading effects lend her artwork an opulent softness. She also make each character looks funny within her tattooing aspect.

12. Peter Aurisch in Berlin, Germany
Peter is incredibly skilled at creating many visual art styles, be it watercolor, cubism, or precisely shaded pencil drawings. Another tattooing style feels as if Peter is working on a canvass. Some illustration will be ridiculous comparing with other conventional tattoo artist. Abstracts figure are drawn, bias characters are created, and spoiled coloring technics seem often present. But this is such another unusual drawing style. Some people may see Peter’s drawing simply like random sketches without precise estimation. However, such statements could possibly come from people who still looking tattooing shape through conventional standpoint.

13. Xoïl in Paris, France
French tattoo artist Loïc Lavenu, also known by the nickname Xoïl, has a very distinctive Photoshop collage aesthetic. The results are always surreal, sprawling, and highly experimental. His works are more likely clip arts shown on presentation slides, or graphic illustration for publishing flyer.
Its shows unique picture composed by combining elements come from an “out-of-the –box” contemplation. Many symbols displayed reflect certain character properties of human. In the other hand they can also represent means of emotional circumstance undergone while the tattoo was made.