Vincent Hocquet from Beautiful Freak Tattoo in St. Idesbald in Belgium always manages to create stunning images. This week is no different with this dotwork sleeve he sent in.
You can check out more of Vincent’s work in his BME portfolio gallery.
Taking a quick look below, you can see the arms. Vincent Hocquet is the man. The man has a BME portfolio gallery that is filled with incredible geometric tattoos.
The fact that it’s all dotwork was enough to fry my brain. I can barely draw a straight line. Imagine creating these intricate figures using dots!
There are days I really love writing for ModBlog. This is one of those days. The reason today? Well, I’ll let the picture speak for me.
I woke up this morning to find this image, and MANY more like it uploaded by Vincent Hocquet from Beautiful Freak Tattoo in Belgium.
I know I posted an image of a geometric blackwork tattoo last week, but to have a flood of images like this hit the galleries isn’t something that happens every day. One of the key features of these photos is they’re all obviously professionally done. The images are crisp and clean, and really make the tattoos pop.
As for the tattoos themselves, the mixture of isometric designs combined with the natural elements (flowers, wings, etc) really works well in these pieces. I’m reminded of one of my high school science classes where the teacher spent an entire class showing how math and nature are tied together. Fibonacci sequences are present in animals and plants, complex geometric designs can be seen in micro-organisms, and I won’t even get started on crystal growth patterns.
It’s one of those things that really make you think about the world at large. Did we as humans come up with these mathematical equations, then discover them in nature later on, or as a collective species, do we have some form of primal ties to the natural world, and came up with math based on a collective shared knowledge passed down through DNA. So while flowers and animals have these equations hard coded into their DNA, and therefore evolved into the structures that we see today, do we as humans take a different approach to this same ingrained knowledge and express it through our math and science.
I suppose we’ll never really know for certain, but it is something to ponder while you’re procrastinating in your last few hours of work before the weekend.
I really like Cliff’s variation on the hoary old wing tattoo — to be honest, I’m surprised we don’t see this placement more often. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Vincent Hocquet’s stippling technique is so impressive, either. A couple of close-ups, after the jump.
(Tattoos by Vincent Hocquet at Beautiful Freak Tattoo in St.-Idesbald, Belgium.)
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I just realized that in the interview with Vincent Hocquet, I didn’t include a picture of him! This shot of him and Penny was taken by their friend Vinnie.
EDIT: Ack! This is actually Benny and Jasmijn, two customers of Vincent’s! Sorry for the mistaken identity.
This piece (which reminds me of Dan DiMattia‘s style of course, as well as Vincent Hocquet‘s) was done by Pierrot at Arte Corpus in Marseille, France. Continue reading for an earlier photo.
Sometimes I worry that people will get bored because I post work by a number of artists quite regularly, but then I realize that I don’t particularly care because I post what I like, not what I think will generate viewers… And I remember how mad I was when public schools started switching to “everyone should win a prize” instead of “the best people get the prizes” — so I again bring you some wonderful geometric work on Davy by Vincent Hocquet from Beautiful Freak Tattoo in St. Idesbald, Belgium.
I continue to greatly admire his skill.
I feel so sorry for Vincent Hocquet at Beautiful Freak Tattoo in St. Idesbald, Belgium. I am 100% sure that my eyes would just fall right out of my head if I had to do this tattoo! In any case, Nico got a great geometric tattoo out of it (and it makes people think of Q-Bert!).
This piece is by Vincent Hocquet at Beautiful Freak Tattoo in St. Idesbald, Belgium. You can see more of his work in his BME tattoo portfolio.
People liked the forearm tattoo by Vincent Hocquet at Beautiful Freak I posted earlier this week, so I’d like to share another photo, this time of a backpiece. Oh, and note to artists and models: as much as a nice tattoo helps get you on ModBlog, so does a nice photo — and Vincent sends such nice photos!
