✷ Casey Q Doe ✷
Chicago tattooer, printmaker, and puppeteer.
✷ Casey Q Doe ✷
Chicago tattooer, printmaker, and puppeteer.
This gallery is a non-exhaustive sampling of my work tattooing. Its function is to serve as a reference library, highlighting pieces that work together to describe various styles of tattooing that I like to do and am interested in making more of, to help give a sense of the scope and goals of my work.
It updates slower than my other feeds and serves as a bit more of a static page, so if you are interested in seeing my most recent work as well as a comprehensive archive my instagram is currently your best bet! I'm hoping to eventually transfer that backlog of posts to my blog page here as well, which once it is complete will be vastly more searchable than instagram just by using your computer's find function.
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Traditional
Illustrative
Colorful
Blackwork
Healed Work
Characterized by mono-weight lining, smooth gradients, and bold "right-out-the-bottle" colors.
Characterized by variable-weight linework, naturalistic or textured shading, and often more color mixing.
Color work can exist within other style categories, but I want to specifically highlight some super bright super fun color work here because it's a style I'd love to do more work in. I enjoy bold flat colors as well as more painterly styles, and am developing my use of color linework as well.
Of the styles I work in I draw the least flash for this style, though I am working on making more. The reason for that is that these are often bigger pieces, aiming to connect and enhance existing work or highlight the body's natural shapes.
For me this style also means working mainly with a mag shading needle, which creates slightly softer edges to the piece than a standard lining needle and allows for a huge variety of cool textures and gradients. This lineless method helps me to work fairly quickly and keep these large pieces financially accessible.
Here are some photos of healed tattoos I've done, and I'm always on the hunt for more! If you've been tattooed by me in the past I hugely appreciate a good quality photo of the healed result, preferably taken in natural light.
If you run into complications healing for any reason I offer free touch up work no questions asked to anyone who has been tattooed by me, any amount of time after the original work was completed. It's important to have my best work on display walking around out there!
