Inkcredible Tattoo Studio Virginia Beach
Explore Tattoo Styles in Virginia Beach
Find the Inkcredible Artist Who Fits Your Tattoo Idea
Select the tattoo style that most closely matches your idea. We will show you the Inkcredible artists whose specialties and portfolios align with that direction.
Free walk-in consultations are offered Tuesday through Friday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. No consultation appointment is required. Same-day tattoo availability is not guaranteed.
Find an Artist for Your Tattoo Style
Every Inkcredible artist brings a different artistic background, creative approach, and set of specialties to the studio. Choosing an artist whose existing work aligns with your idea is one of the best ways to begin planning a successful custom tattoo.
Select a style below to compare suitable artists, then visit their profiles and galleries to review more of their work.
Search for an Artist by Tattoo Style
Choose the style that best describes your idea. If you are unsure, select “Show all artists” and compare the complete Inkcredible team.
What Tattoo Style Are You Looking For?
Select a style to see the Inkcredible artists whose work most closely matches your project.
Showing all 7 artists.
Owner and Tattoo Artist
Mattlock Lopes
Painterly Realism, Color Realism and Large-Scale Tattoos
Mattlock creates custom tattoos that combine realistic detail with painterly composition, expressive color, strong lighting, and designs developed for the client’s anatomy.
Tattoo Artist
Burke Long
Black-and-Grey Realism, Portraits and Fantastical Realism
Burke specializes in detailed black-and-grey tattoos, portraits, imaginative realism, smooth tonal transitions, and custom compositions with strong visual storytelling.
Tattoo Artist
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.
Tattoo Artist
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 custom artwork developed around each client.
Tattoo Artist
Ben Spear
Color, Black-and-Grey, Surrealism and Pop Culture
Ben works in both color and black-and-grey, creating surreal, character-driven, pop-culture, film-inspired, and original custom tattoos with strong composition and detail.
Tattoo Artist
Chipi Camposeco
Freehand, Japanese-Inspired, Color and Black-and-Grey Tattoos
Chipi brings more than 14 years of experience to custom freehand, Japanese-inspired, color, black-and-grey, illustrative, realism, and large-scale tattoo projects.
Tattoo Artist
Nathaly Hernandez
Blackwork, Gothic-Inspired Tattoos and Large-Scale Work
Nathaly creates custom blackwork with a dark, gothic-inspired approach. Her work includes animals, florals, classical statues, sacred and macabre symbolism, architectural details, and large-scale compositions designed to flow naturally with the body.
Understanding Common Tattoo Styles
These descriptions can help you identify the general direction of your tattoo. Your artist can help refine the style during your consultation.
Black-and-Grey
Black ink, grey washes, contrast, and smooth shading create dimension without relying on color.
Color Tattoos
Color tattoos may use realistic palettes, bold saturation, painterly transitions, or stylized color relationships.
Realism
Realism focuses on recognizable subjects, believable detail, dimensional form, accurate lighting, and careful texture.
Portrait Tattoos
Portraits require strong reference images and close attention to expression, proportion, lighting, and identity.
Painterly Realism
Painterly realism combines recognizable detail with expressive color, texture, lighting, movement, and artistic composition.
Surreal and Fantastical Realism
These styles combine realistic execution with imaginative, dreamlike, symbolic, or impossible subjects and environments.
Anime and Pop Culture
These tattoos reinterpret characters, films, games, comics, animation, and other recognizable subjects as custom artwork.
Japanese-Inspired Tattoos
Japanese-inspired work uses bold flow, recognizable imagery, background elements, and compositions that complement the body.
Freehand Tattoos
Freehand designs are developed directly for the selected area so the composition responds naturally to anatomy and movement.
Illustrative Tattoos
Illustrative tattoos combine drawing-based linework, stylization, texture, shading, and artistic interpretation.
Blackwork and Gothic-Inspired Tattoos
Blackwork uses strong contrast, intentional areas of solid black, and clear composition. Gothic-inspired work may include dark imagery, sacred or macabre symbolism, statues, animals, florals, arches, cathedrals, and ornamental architectural details.
Large-Scale Tattoos
Sleeves, back pieces, and other large projects require planning for composition, visual flow, sessions, and long-term consistency.
Original Custom Tattoos
Custom tattoos are developed around the client’s ideas, references, placement, anatomy, approximate size, and preferred artistic direction.
Not Sure Which Style or Artist Fits Your Idea?
Contact Inkcredible Tattoo Studio with your idea, reference images, preferred placement, approximate size, and general direction. The studio can help connect you with an artist whose work aligns with your project.