Black and white designs are outdated because watercolour ink is now the industry norm.Robson Carvalho is a talented São Paulo-based Brazilian tattoo artist.

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Brazil’s Sao Paulo is the birthplace of Robson Carvalho. Many adjectives and adverbs, like scrappy, free, watercolor-enlivened, and pastel-like, are used to characterise his graphic style. For the most part, his tattoos look as though they were taken straight out of one of his sketchbooks. Carvalho embodies that free-form pen technique flawlessly in his tattoos. His skill suggests that, rather than using a tattoo machine, he traced a sketch using a pen and brush. The faults contribute to the work’s flawless quality: some lines and colours fade, and some ink splatters as if the pen nib dropped.