SKETCHES OF A HANDPOCK TATTOO

In the material you will find not only a huge number of sketches for a Handpoke tattoo, which you can view and take as a basis for creating your own real and most artisanal-exclusive-underground tattoo design, which you yourself will apply on your body in the best traditions of Hand Poke tattoo. Here you will learn a lot of interesting things about the features and options of drawings, style features, get acquainted with its history, meaning and interesting facts. Additionally, we have thematic materials on our website:

The meaning of a handpoke tattoo
Photo of a tattoo in the style of Handpoke

Handpoke style and sketches of drawings for handpoke style tattoos

Handpoke is a tattooing technique that does not involve the use of a tattoo machine..

Handpoke tattoos are often called “home” tattoos, because their application requires a minimum set of materials. Typically, these tattoos are composed of simple lines and uncomplicated designs. The simpler the tattoo, the better the execution will be..

Making a tattoo using the handpoke technique is less painful, and the drawing itself heals much faster. However, the process of work will be many times slower than when using a typewriter..

Style history

In the tattoo industry, specialized machines have appeared not so long ago. And in Russia, specialized equipment appeared only 20 years ago. However, tattoos were popular much earlier. For a long time, people applied drawings to the skin using needles, animal bones, and sharpened stones. Even in the ancient tribes, tattoos were very common, of course, no tattoo machines existed then..

The handpoke style itself appeared as a protest against the commercialization of the tattoo industry..

Tattoos are rapidly gaining popularity in modern society. Nowadays it is quite difficult to find a young man or a girl who would not have a single tattoo. Body drawings are becoming fashionable. Many tattoo artists do not like the fact that originally underground art has become a part of modern trends. That is why they use the handpoke technique to create unique tattoos..

For many masters, tattoo is primarily culture, art. This is a creative process. Such huge popularity in society devalues tattoos..

Peculiarities

Handpoke tattoos are characterized by carelessness and uncomplicatedness. Sometimes a tattoo is done without a pre-prepared sketch, having only an idea. This tattoo style does not imply the presence of elaborate details or clear lines in the drawing. Most often there are images of animals, cartoon characters, various attributes of everyday life, emoticons, symbols or inscriptions. Handpoke tattoos like to raise socially significant topics, stuff all kinds of curses or obscene expressions on their bodies.

Handpoke tattoos are done only with black paint, in rare cases they can add a little red.

Meaning

Each tattoo has its own meaning. Someone immortalizes important moments of their life on their body, I endow the image with special meaning. Someone just likes the aesthetics of body drawings and does not put any special meaning there..

However, handpok is always about rebellion and willfulness. People who get tattoos in this style show their cocky character and disagreement with social principles or stereotypes..

People who make handpoke tattoos are attracted by the criticality and absurdity of perception. With the help of these drawings on the body, they emphasize their philosophy, sense of humor, style, attitude to life.

Those who decorate their bodies with funny and ridiculous pictures, not worrying that they may someday regret, behave in the same way in life. They live in the moment, not thinking about the distant future. For such people, real feelings and emotions are much more important than the invisible future..

Popular options

Among the girls, neat drawings are common, consisting of several simple lines. For example, a broken heart, inscriptions reflecting their life spirit (“live fast”, “mother’s daugter”, “weird times”, “sorry, Don’t care”), images of animals doing human affairs (riding a skateboard, listening to music eating pizza), etc..

Guys have more casual handpoke tattoos. Young people often fill such tattoos quite spontaneously, sometimes they do it at home with friends..

The most popular images that can often be found on guys: skulls, characters from the animated series The Simpsons or Family Guy, various curses, images of food products, animals.

It is important to note that tattoos are not divided into “male” and “female”. Everyone can fill what suits their taste more, regardless of gender..

Places for tattoos

Since the handpoke tattoo does not imply a large number of elaborated details, the size is often medium or small (no more than 15-20 cm).

Rarely can such a tattoo be found on the thigh or chest, on the back..

Common places for handpoke tattoos are: knees, wrists, forearms. Usually, such tattoos are made as a kind of sleeve. That is, many small images cover the entire arm or leg, while there is no logical connection between them..

Finally

Tattooing is a rather important step. Despite the fact that many people get tattoos often without thinking about the consequences, this is not always a good option..

It is necessary to seriously approach the choice of a master and studio, collect the maximum amount of information, read the reviews of other people.

Perhaps a tattoo will bring great joy. But it could be that she becomes a huge mistake..

Removing a tattoo is painful and unpleasant. So it is better to think in advance whether you really want to get a tattoo now, in exactly this style, in this particular place and whether you are confident in the chosen image.

Consultation with the master before the session will not be superfluous. On it you can ask all your questions..

It is worth taking the healing of a tattoo just as seriously. Even if the drawing was done by an experienced craftsman, improper healing can cause a poor result. Lines can float, pigment can fall out, the final image will be very different from the original idea.

It is necessary to follow all the recommendations of the master, buy a healing ointment in advance.

You shouldn’t get a tattoo before the age of 18. Firstly, your parents may not agree to this, and without their permission, you simply won’t be able to get a tattoo. Secondly, adolescence is a time in which tastes and attitudes are just beginning to form. What seems like a great idea at 15 may not appeal to you by 20.

Examples of tattoo sketches for a Handpoke tattoo from 11/26/2020 (282 sketches)