Javier Jade at Arte Sagrado in Lima, Peru, went on an absolute rampage at this year’s International Bodyart and Tattoo Convention in Lima, picking up a handful of awards for his work. Somehow not for the one above, mind you, but check after the jump for a couple of winners.
The old man’s face won “Best of the Day,” while the child’s face won “Best Realistic.” Deservedly so!
BME/News and Modblog highlight only a small fraction of what
Realism looks so odd when your trying to replicate skin on a skin medium. Really awesome work!
oh my beauty!!! this is fanTASTIC!
there is somethign about hands touching hte face like trying to form realism flesh ontop of real skin, thats talent but i also have to say that little girl also looks very odd way like trying to look liek a famous super star
i would love to see the actual picture of the young kid.. that eye… it looks so odd….
and now i know who to go to when i want portraits of my grandparents! nice work.. congratulations….
woah amazing work. sheesh!
@someone else – the little girl looks like she is from photographer Jill Greenberg’s series of crying children.
the first two tattoos will look even better when the skin gets older.
ja and the girls mouth looks weird to me. like a plastic onion ring
Excellent work!
Though the girl’s mouth looks like she just came out from having her lips made, and her eyes shows effects of weed.
I’m not fan of portrait tattooing, but this guy’s definitely awesome
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what incredible talent
makes me wish i had a reason to get a tattoo of an old man
Portraits always look weird to me, but this guy is one of the best probably.
The little girl is sort of like one of Jill Greenberg’s photos:
http://qotile.net/blog/images/jillg.jpg
Just with the hands moved around. I’m going to assume that he probably did it without a reference, which makes it more amazing.
omg that childs ear is peirced! child abuse! must be why shes crying…
no im not serious at all actually
very well done tats, i dig it
@someone else
The original picture: http://a.abcnews.com/images/Health/ht_cover_up_060727_ssv.jpg
These tattoos are terrifying!
Tattoos are fantastic! Line detail is amazing.
Props for the title of the post.
even though they are shaded VERY well, overall there are things that bother me….the cheek in the first picture, the lips/eye in the child..
YES Javier jade is awesome artist working at the shop Arte Sagrado, check out more of his work in the web site, http://www.artesagrado.com