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Canvas & SkinThe Virginia–Carolina Creative Coast

Realism

Photorealistic rendering of subjects in black and grey or color.

Realism artists by municipality

Norfolk (5)Virginia Beach (5)Columbia (1)

Artists working in Realism

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Mattlock Lopes

Virginia Beach

Owner of Inkcredible Tattoo Studio. Specializes in painterly realism, color realism, black-and-grey realism, portraits, fantasy imagery, and large-scale custom tattoos, with 10+ years of professional experience.

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Burke Long

Virginia Beach

Tattoo artist at Inkcredible Tattoo Studio focused on black-and-grey realism, detailed portraits, fantastical realism, memorial pieces, and large-scale custom work.

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Brian Allen

Virginia Beach

Tattoo artist at Inkcredible Tattoo Studio focused on pop-culture realism, portrait tattoos, character, cinematic, horror, animal, and tribute pieces.

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Chipi Camposeco

Virginia Beach

Tattoo artist at Inkcredible Tattoo Studio specializing in Japanese, freehand, realism, and large-scale custom tattoos, with 14+ years of professional experience.

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Donnie Anderson

Virginia Beach

Tattoo artist at Sandbridge Tattoo partial to black-and-grey realism and dark-art surrealism, proficient across most tattoo styles. Virginia Beach native, tattooing professionally since apprenticing in Roanoke in 2012.

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Jesus

Norfolk

Tattoo artist at Valhalla Rose Tattoo and Piercing with expertise in black-and-grey, realism, portraits, and rock-themed work.

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Cassandra Redd

Columbia

Artist and owner of Banshee Tattoo Co., preferring realism and black-and-gray work, with 10 years of professional tattooing experience. Also does cover-up tattoos.

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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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Edward Alvarado

Norfolk

Co-founder (June 2022) of Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk. A Navy veteran (2013–2017) who began his tattoo apprenticeship in 2016, working in American Traditional and black and grey realism.

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Angel

Norfolk

Tattoo artist at Slow Ride Tattoo & Gallery in Norfolk, working in black and grey, realism, and portraits.

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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.

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