Minimalist tattoos drawn with one continuous line

[AndreaJames]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/05/19/minimalist-tattoos-drawn-with.html

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[LearnedCoward]

Did anybody else try and follow the lines to make sure that each animal was a single continuous line?

[wait_really]

For the un-tattooed: What this artist is doing is incredibly difficult. Smooth, perfect lines are not easy when drawing on paper that doesn’t react to rapid stabbing…

[Thrull1]

This is the first time I have ever seen tattoos that I would actually consider having on my body.

[ClutchLinkey]

I did - to verify the single line but also to try to figure out how he did it.
Next, someone will turn this into performance art by ice-skating the designs. I hope.

[MadLibrarian]

Picasso used to do this:

[Medievalist]

[popobawa4u]

But tattoo lines are comprised of dots! The only way to achieve a tattoo which isn’t discontinuous is to use a razor and fill with ink, which I suppose would not work so well.

[Boundegar]

Bingo! I was thinking this reminded me of something 100 years old, but I was thinking of Matisse. Dali did something similar, but on Dexedrine:

[Medievalist]

Here’s one for Jason.

I’m more of a sume-i fan myself but this is a brilliant application of minimalism to the strictures of tattoo art.