I prepare a database of drawings, patterns, ideas etc. We meet at the first session while being totally spontaneous with the ideas, placement and styles for the drawing; we create the unique personal design. Sometimes it’s freehand, sometimes stencil drawn by hand or digitally, sometimes both …
It’s very important to know the placement on the body, always good to see some example to understand w
hat this or that person likes, some different ideas, obvious elements. Usually it takes from one to four hours for a preparation. After this we can tattoo first lines and dots, to keep the stencil/drawing on the skin. It can take also up to four hours, depends on the size of the project, or another reasons, such as time, availability, pain. Sometimes, one session is enough for a project and some project lasts much longer. Traveling the World and the Time, it is getting better with my own style of tattooing, my own vision of technic, the try to learn from everything, from everybody, always searching for a harmony and balance, for a new styles and solutions, opening new horizons, bringing the best to a person who comes to have some ink out of my hands. I am very thankful to everybody who had done it at the past and those who are considering about having one done. I am very thankful to all my teachers at this way. I am very thankful to the Way itself. I was born in 1977. I am tattooing since 1998. Since 2013, I live and work in Mannheim, Germany. You can find me at TATTOOSPACE-MANNHEIM, Jungbuschstr. 8, 68159 Mannheim, Germany. With the wishes of Love and Happiness to all Beings. Realität ist Liebe
Ari Akkermann.