Manga

Anime and manga tattoos, from clean screentone-inspired black and grey through to full-colour character work. The style has its own visual language — expressive eyes, speed lines, dramatic shading — and it has to be respected rather than approximated.

Panel recreations, favourite characters, symbols and full manga-style scenes all come through the studio. Where a source panel was drawn for print, we redraw it to work on skin, adjusting line weight so it stays readable once healed.

Colour manga work benefits from being placed where it will not be in constant sunlight, which keeps those flat saturated colours looking flat and saturated.