Whether you’re looking for inspiration or just want to gawk, today we’ve got some of the best-executed 3D tattoos for you to check out.
Escher Hodgepodge
To kick things off, here’s a classic M.C. Escher-style tat that offers a little surreality, but doesn’t go too far afield.
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Geometric Shapes
Tattoos of this stripe – and spiral – are especially helpful for those who want to get creative ink, but aren’t wild about showing skin.
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Characters Portraits
A 3D portrait tat of any character you adore is a way to broadcast what you’re into with a permanent homage.
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Classic Photo Realism
By getting a photographically shaded work, you can create a vintage sensibility above and beyond a sepia-toned filter.
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Expanded Anatomy
Evoking the diagrams of Da Vinci’s canvas, these expanded anatomy tattoos really drive home the 3D effect. It’s a nice way to blur the line between realism and surrealism.
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Pop-up Effect
These types of 3D tattoos begin as standard ink, then fade into startling realism as they seem to move up and out from the skin. It requires a particularly gifted artist to execute convincingly.
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Second Skin
If you would like some scales, armor, or a nice geometric overlay to make you feel more at home in your skin, there’s a 3D tat for that. How much of your body and where is entirely up to your own sense of personal aesthetics.
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Outer Space
3D tattoos depicting the deepest reaches of space represent the interwoven dichotomy that is relative reality–and provide a way for web writers to sound really pretentious.
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