Polly Heggenes

Mooooooooood. I do silly tattoos too. This was for Mandy. A lovely girl who visited me from the Netherlands.
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That's genius ❤️

Blast over trad panther and charge em double!

I cannot wait to see the micro realism healed tattoo trend hit us in a couple of years time. Should be interesting.

Fresh tattoos on Instagram and Pinterest always look good when freshly made, but that's no guarantee it will look good after it's healed. If your artist tells you to go bigger, trust them.

Skin cells expand with age, this is why tattoo lines thicken with age. Breathing space is vital to any tattoo design, you need to give space for the design to grow into. The final design we made was about 21cm in height, so not small in any sense...>>>

Here's an example of 'tattoo request vs final design'. On the left is the original image my client wanted, along with additional changes. On the right is the final design we created given the dimensions for the design requested. Too many details ruin tattoos if you don't have enough space...>>>

Go over the red with dark blue and maybe add spiral like circles in the back? Or some sort of gradient fade to give the sense of motion.

Back piece finished for lilly from yesterday
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Freehanded this dagger and intestines onto my customer's leg today. I have NEVER freehanded a dagger before, it was nerve-wracking to say the least, but very happy with how it turned out.
#tattoo #tattoos #tattooartist #linework #blacklinework #blackwork #art #illustration #dagger #guts #artwork

Finished Karsten's leg today. Wild flowers and meadow insects. Simple clean black linework.
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Practicing portraits. Here's Tom Waits as Renfield from THE ONLY ADAPTATION OF BRAMSTOKERS DRACULA THAT YOU NEED TO SEE. The one Coppola did fyi.
#art #illustration #drawing #ink #linework #tomwaits #dracula

Zack Polanski all the way 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Having letters after your name, tenure or contributing generational defining discoveries or a line of books, does not make you a better person.

One of the interesting things to come out of the Epstein files is something that I've long suspected.
Academics, scientists and other 'educated' men are not above nor beyond commiting just as evil atrocities to women and children as those who are considered coming from a lesser background.

Drawing drawing always drawing. Japanese inspired #birds and #flowers. Available for booking this February. #tattoo #tattooer #tattooist #tattooing #tattoos #blackwork #blackworktattoo #blackworkers #oslo #oslotattoo #oslotattooartist #tattooflash #art

New large tattoo design posted and available for booking with me! Took a couple of drafts to get this but so happy with how it finally turned out!
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I made a melty skull and barbed wire for my awesome customer today and by god did I have a lot of fun making this. Before and after shots.
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Just about finished. Very happy with how it turned out. Starting no.2. more women and more skulls and more flowers.
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I'm gonna counter this with 'this is social darwinism and we shouldn't interfere' and humans doing stupid shit from things they've seen online is nothing new, remember the tide pod challenge?

Ducks are the best!

Sketchbook day today. I'm not very good at drawing faces, so I'm sitting down and having a proper go at it. So far so good. Took some inspiration from the beautiful works of Claudia de Sabe.
#painting #illustration #art #artwork #face #women #skull

True detective season 1 is the greatest show ever because I can literally take a screenshot at random and apply it my life

Impromptu #moths and #leaves for my client, Thea, today. She had a space she wanted to fill, so we picked out some things from my book and freehanded the leaves in the background.
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"Diana" piece. Might rework this design with a deer or deer element. Placement recommendation upper arm or side of leg or side of thigh. Email/dm to book!
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Barbed wire and chain study. Working on which details to add and leave out. It's easy to make designs over complicated but that means they rarely have staying power as tattoos. This is why those old school designs have such staying power.
#drawing #illustration #ink #linework #blacklinework #chains

Trippy piece of work I made that I would like to develop into a larger scale piece.
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Photo dumping a load of things and hoping to get more feedback from here than on shitstagram. Made this floral piece for Karsten.
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Bare. Si. Nei! Just say no! Barbed wire heart for the lovely Anja today ♥️

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