I remembered that some tribes even believed the tattoos on your body stay with you after death, helping you feel less alone in the afterworld. |
Ben Drawing shows a waifish, pale boy with scruffy black hair and tattoos lounging in black bathing briefs on a brightly colored beach towel. |
Sailors traveling to exotic foreign lands began to collect tattoos as souvenirs of their journeys. |
The early Celts are fun to draw, with blue woad tattoos, punk-like spiky hair and walrus-like moustaches. |
It was different than other tattoos in the fact that it was in metallic gold, most were done in dull flat colours. |
The diversity of designs would make the prison tattoos of a lifer in a Russian jail look as if he didn't have much time on his hands. |