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Canvas & SkinThe Virginia–Carolina Creative Coast

Illustrative

Draws on illustration and graphic-design sensibilities rather than photorealism.

Illustrative artists by municipality

Norfolk (3)Portsmouth (1)Virginia Beach (1)

Artists working in Illustrative

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Sam Rutledge

Virginia Beach

Tattoo artist at Studio evoLve. Enjoys illustrative, American traditional, and Japanese traditional styles, while working across many others.

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Lewis

Norfolk

Tattoo artist at Valhalla Rose Tattoo and Piercing (4 years' experience), focused on illustrative and neo-traditional styles, plus color and black-and-grey realism.

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Matty

Portsmouth

Tattoo artist at DNA Tattoo, Portsmouth. Army veteran; tattooing since 2025, working in traditional, neo-traditional, illustrative, floral, and blackwork styles.

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Patrick Loud (Ploud)

Norfolk

Co-owner of Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk, with nearly 14 years of tattooing experience across Virginia and Los Angeles, focused on illustrated realism in both black and grey and color.

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Jarred

Norfolk

Tattoo artist at Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk with a decade of professional experience, focused on neo-traditional, illustrative, and black and grey work, and also taking on realism, geometric, and color pieces.

Often tagged alongside Illustrative

Other styles the same artists are also tagged with — not a claim that the styles themselves are related, only that they share artists.