Inkcredible Tattoo · Virginia Beach
Explore tattoo styles in Virginia Beach.
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- Books
- Open
- Free walk-in consultations
- Tuesday–Friday Noon–7 PM
- Appointment
- Not required for consultations
- Same-day tattoos
- Not guaranteed
Complete style guides
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Detailed and dimensional
Black and Grey Realism
Portraits, wildlife, memorial tattoos, statues, cinematic imagery, architecture, and imaginative compositions created with black ink and grey washes.
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Vibrant and lifelike
Color Realism
Custom tattoos that use realistic color, dimensional shading, texture, contrast, lighting, and carefully developed compositions.
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Characters and stories
Anime Tattoos
Custom anime tattoos inspired by memorable characters, transformations, scenes, symbols, and personal connections to favorite stories.
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Flow and composition
Japanese-Inspired Tattoos
Bold imagery, background elements, movement, freehand planning, and large-scale compositions designed to complement the body.
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People and personal meaning
Portrait Tattoos
Custom portrait tattoos developed from strong references with careful attention to identity, expression, composition, proportion, and lighting.
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Bold and high contrast
Blackwork Tattoos
Bold black ink, illustrative linework, ornamental patterns, and strong contrast. Compare current portfolio examples and discuss your direction with the studio.
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Sleeves and major projects
Large-Scale Custom Tattoos
How sleeves, back pieces, and other major tattoo projects are planned around anatomy, visual flow, connected subjects, and multiple sessions.
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Mattlock Lopes
Painterly Realism, Color Realism and Large-Scale Work
Mattlock creates custom tattoos combining realistic detail, expressive color, strong lighting, painterly composition, and designs developed for the client’s anatomy.
Burke Long
Black and Grey Realism, Portraits and Fantastical Realism
Burke creates detailed black and grey tattoos, portraits, imaginative realism, smooth tonal transitions, and custom compositions with strong visual storytelling.
Brian Allen
Portraits, Pop Culture and Cinematic Realism
Brian creates detailed portraits, cinematic subjects, character artwork, pop-culture tattoos, and custom realism pieces with clean execution and visual storytelling.
Dorse Taylor
Anime, Color, Pop Culture and Black and Grey Realism
Dorse creates anime, character, pop-culture, color, and black and grey tattoos with energetic compositions, smooth shading, and original artwork developed around each client.
Ben Spear
Color, Black and Grey, Surrealism and Pop Culture
Ben works in color and black and grey, creating surreal, character-driven, pop-culture, film-inspired, and original custom tattoos.
Chipi Camposeco
Freehand, Japanese-Inspired, Color and Black and Grey
Chipi creates custom freehand, Japanese-inspired, color, black and grey, illustrative, realism, and large-scale tattoo projects.
Additional creative directions
More ways to describe your tattoo idea.
These approaches often overlap with the main style guides. Use them to explain your preferences during a consultation.
Painterly Realism
Recognizable detail combined with expressive color, texture, lighting, movement, and artistic composition.
Surreal and Fantastical Realism
Realistic execution combined with dreamlike, symbolic, imaginative, or impossible subjects and environments.
Pop Culture and Characters
Custom interpretations of films, games, comics, television, animation, and recognizable characters.
Freehand Tattoos
Designs developed directly for the selected area so the composition responds to anatomy and movement.
Illustrative Tattoos
Drawing-based linework, stylization, texture, shading, and individual artistic interpretation.
Original Custom Tattoos
Artwork developed around your ideas, references, placement, anatomy, approximate size, and preferred direction.
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