Glitch tattoos are the ultimate mind trip and definitely a unique way to ink your body. Glitch art is part of the contemporary movement–focusing on distorted imagery.
If you’re unfamiliar with this genre–some inspirational work to check out include artists like Banksy’s Little Mermaid or Ferruccio Laviani’s Good Vibrations.
Glitched ink designs work best with iconic and recognizable imagery is altered. Do you have the perfect iconic image to be glitched? Any subject or topic is game. Whether Marilyn Monroe, a Campbell’s soup can, or a planet in the solar system the distorted effect of glitch art draws in the audience to the subject matter.
The beauty of glitch style tattoos is that there is a fit for everyone as long as the art is something they’d like to put on their body. Pop culture to scientific structures to family photos can get the glitch treatment. There are no limitations to what can be glitched.
Colors really turn out well when working with glitched tattoos. Adding to the illusion of fluidity–the glitch style turns a subject on its head. People will stop you on the street to look at the design.
The popularity of digital media and computer-based graphics has brought along a whole new trend. A glitch in the Matrix is described as something in the real world that appears glitchy and pixelated–like in a computer.
Blending hand-drawn and digital lines are key elements of these types of glitch tattoos. Pixelated designs demonstrate the blending of our social society with digital society.
Glitch Tattoos are not for everyone. They are complex and intricate–real body art and a definite conversation starter. These melty images will mess with the minds of anyone who beholds them. A forever lasting optical illusion.
