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Portrait Tattoos
Portraittattoo work from artists across the TattooNOW network. Each image links to the artist’s portfolio.
About Portrait Tattoos
Portrait tattooing captures a real, recognizable face in ink — a loved one, a hero, a pet. It's widely considered the hardest discipline in tattooing: the eye is exquisitely sensitive to faces, and there's nowhere to hide an error.
- Usually black & grey, where greywash sculpts the planes of a face
- A portrait specialist is a specific expert — not just a generally skilled tattooer
- Healed photos are everything; over-worked skin muddies as it settles
- A high-resolution, well-lit reference is essential — the tattoo is only as good as the photo
- Needs room for detail: forearm, bicep, chest, thigh, back
Last updated June 2026
Healed black-and-grey dog sleeve, arm
Spacey
Prohibition-era black-and-grey tattoo, forearm
Jason Voorhees
Hell or High Water Movie Tattoo
Black-and-grey 90s grunge music portrait sleeve
Odin - Norse Mythology Sleeve
Portrait
Pooch
Husky watercolor portrait tattoo by Haylo
Great horned owl and roses tattoo
Poodle Dog Portrait
Black-and-grey Virgin Mary portrait, upper arm
Star Wars knee tattoo, black-and-grey leg sleeve
Black-and-grey animal sleeve, tiger and giraffes
Salvador Dali and Surrealism leg sleeve
M. A. Pietà
Athena warrior goddess and lion leg sleeve, black-and-grey
Realistic Portrait
LIONS
Ragnar Vikings portrait tattoo, black-and-grey
Goddess Athena Color Tattoo
hour glass silhouette
Zeus and eagle tattoo
Jetson
Black And Gray Nefertiti Egyptian Queen
Calvin&Hobbes Tattoo
Tara"s Back
Stone
HEALED Vampire Monster Tattoo
TUUKA RASK
Flowermorph
Color Portrait
Progression of Wolf and Native american/Islander style tribal sleeve
Venice
Lady, Hummingbird and Gladiolas
Colorado Theme
untitled
Hannya black and grey back piece
Hunting dog portrait half sleeve
untitled
Jaguar tattoo
Baby angel sunrise portrait
Great horned portrait
Chihuahua Portrait Tattoo
Angel
color bulldog portrait
Baby Portrait