Solid black and hard contrast. The least fashionable style we do, and the one that survives longest without needing a touch up.
Blackwork reads at distance. Where a realistic piece relies on detail that softens over a decade, blackwork relies on the shape of the black itself, which does not go anywhere.
It asks for commitment in return. Solid fill is slower to tattoo and slower to heal than line work, and covering it later is genuinely difficult. We would rather you sat with the drawing for a week than booked it the same day.
Most panels take between two and five sittings spaced a month apart.
The whole shape goes on in one sitting so you can live with the composition before any fill happens. Usually four to six hours.
You come back so we can see how your skin took the line. Fill is planned around what we learn.
Solid black in the largest areas. This is the longest sitting and the one that needs a real breakfast.
Evening out the fill and sharpening the boundary. Some panels finish here.
One free visit for anything that healed unevenly. Booked in as a real appointment, not squeezed in.
Consults run forty minutes and cost nothing. Come with references, a rough placement, and a budget range. You leave with a date, an artist, and a price band.
