Watercolor ink is the new gold standard in the tattoo business, so forget about black and white ones.

Robson Carvalho is a skilled tattoo artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The city of Sao Paulo in Brazil is where you can find Robson Carvalho. A lot of different words and phrases can be used to describe his style of drawing, such as “scrappy,” “free,” “watercolor-enlivened,” and “pastel-like.” The designs on his tattoos look like they were pulled straight from one of his sketchbooks, which is usually the case. 

That free-form pen style is shown in Carvalho’s tattoos. His skill makes it look like he traced a drawing with a pen and a brush instead of a tattoo machine. Some of the lines become blurry, some colors disappear, and there are splatters of ink that look like the pen nib slipped and fell. This is what makes the work so perfect.

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