This Artist’s Favorite Material To Work With Is Human Skin So He Creates Adorable Minimalist Tattoos (30 Pics)
Ayhan Karadağ is a tattoo artist who creates adorable minimalist tattoos that almost look like illustrations from The Little Prince . He has been drawing since he was 11 years old and says there hasn’t been a moment in his life when he didn’t want to do it. “I gave up so much for it,” says the artist. “I believe that art is my fun, my culture, my lover, my ritual, my everything.”
Throughout his life, Ayhan experimented with many forms of art – he even created handmade ancient Greek musical instruments at one point! Eventually, he realized that the material he likes to work with the most is human skin. “While making art, I realized that a person’s body is the most valuable material and that I want to make people happy when they look at my work on their bodies…” explains the artist. “I don’t think there’s anything more gratifying than carrying the fairytale design that one imagines in his body all his life.”
In his work, the tattoo artist loves to tell fairytale stories intertwined with nature and animals, and stories depicting the times when we were children. “I’m passionate about nature and animals because I believe that the more dependent we are on nature, the more free we are as individuals…” says Ayhan.
The artist is currently drawing a fairytale book but says he can’t finish it yet due to the intensity of his tattoo work. He has already tattooed some of the illustrations on people and the tattoos look absolutely adorable – check them out below!
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Botanical Tattoos Made By Imprinting Real Leaves On The Skin
This is to the guys who are on a constant quest to find that one-of-a-kind tattoo. Ukrainian tattoo artist Rita “Rit Kit” Zolotukhina has found a way to make every tattoo unique with the helping hand of Mother Nature.
She calls them “botanical fingerprint” tattoos. “I’m a nature lover. So most of my sketches are related to flora. But the more I drew, the more I wanted something fresh and native, to feel the plants without any steps in between,” said Rita to Illusion Magazine . She dips real leaves and flowers into stencil ink before placing them onto the skin. As no two leaves are the same, each permanent imprints they leave on the skin is unique.
Finally your quest to get that unique tattoo is over… when you manage to find your way to Ukraine that is.
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