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Bring the weird one

Illustrative

Drawn like a print, tattooed like a tattoo. Bring us the weird one — we like the weird one.

Illustrative is the loosest category here, and that is the point. It borrows from etching, woodcut, comics and storybook art, and it is where the ideas go that do not sit neatly in any other tradition. Stippling, hatching, odd framing, strange subjects.

What keeps it a tattoo rather than a drawing on skin is structure underneath — a readable silhouette and enough contrast to survive. That is the part we bring. You bring the idea nobody else wanted to do.

Work From The Shop

The pieces that do not fit anywhere else. Those are usually the best ones.

Black and grey stippled illustrative gnome with mushrooms and a snail, tattooed on an arm by Josh Espenschied at True North Tattoo in Lancaster, PA

Who Tattoos It Here

Book a free consult with any of them, or walk in and we will point you at the right chair.

Got an idea?

Consults are free and take about twenty minutes. Shop minimum is $100, and we will quote anything larger at the consult.

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