Heavy Black Tattoo Studio in Tel Aviv-Yafo
Adress: Shim'on Ben Shatakh St 2, Tel Aviv-Yafo
The tattoo looks like an antique book illustration or a Dürer engraving. A style that never goes out of fashion.
Timeless aesthetic
No black blobs. Only lines of varying frequency and thickness create form, shadow, and depth.
Hatching instead of solid fill
Our latest works
About the style
Engraving is a tattoo style that imitates old engravings on metal or wood. The design is built on thin parallel lines, hatching, dotwork, and cross-hatching, without solid fills or color patches. All form and volume are created solely through the frequency, thickness, and direction of lines. The style originates from book illustrations, etchings, and botanical engravings of the 19th century, where line clarity was the main expressive tool.
Imitation of print graphics — the tattoo looks like an impression from a copperplate: strokes, dots, lines of varying thickness.
No black fills — instead of solid patches, hatching and dotwork are used, giving lightness and airiness.
Detail and texture — the style allows for rendering the smallest elements: feathers, scales, hair, lace, machinery.
Engraving is ideal for illustrative subjects: animals, plants, portraits, architecture, surrealism, and literary motifs. The tattoo doesn't get heavier over time and retains graphic clarity due to the absence of solid fills.
Imitation of print graphics — the tattoo looks like an impression from a copperplate: strokes, dots, lines of varying thickness.
No black fills — instead of solid patches, hatching and dotwork are used, giving lightness and airiness.
Detail and texture — the style allows for rendering the smallest elements: feathers, scales, hair, lace, machinery.
Engraving is ideal for illustrative subjects: animals, plants, portraits, architecture, surrealism, and literary motifs. The tattoo doesn't get heavier over time and retains graphic clarity due to the absence of solid fills.
Our latest works
About the style
Engraving is a tattoo style that imitates old engravings on metal or wood. The design is built on thin parallel lines, hatching, dotwork, and cross-hatching, without solid fills or color patches. All form and volume are created solely through the frequency, thickness, and direction of lines. The style originates from book illustrations, etchings, and botanical engravings of the 19th century, where line clarity was the main expressive tool.
Imitation of print graphics — the tattoo looks like an impression from a copperplate: strokes, dots, lines of varying thickness.
No black fills — instead of solid patches, hatching and dotwork are used, giving lightness and airiness.
Detail and texture — the style allows for rendering the smallest elements: feathers, scales, hair, lace, machinery.
Engraving is ideal for illustrative subjects: animals, plants, portraits, architecture, surrealism, and literary motifs. The tattoo doesn't get heavier over time and retains graphic clarity due to the absence of solid fills.
Imitation of print graphics — the tattoo looks like an impression from a copperplate: strokes, dots, lines of varying thickness.
No black fills — instead of solid patches, hatching and dotwork are used, giving lightness and airiness.
Detail and texture — the style allows for rendering the smallest elements: feathers, scales, hair, lace, machinery.
Engraving is ideal for illustrative subjects: animals, plants, portraits, architecture, surrealism, and literary motifs. The tattoo doesn't get heavier over time and retains graphic clarity due to the absence of solid fills.
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