Rather than the thick black outlines and bright colors of traditional ... But, Negrete credits the new generation of Chicano tattoo artists doing black and gray for helping him up his game.

The Chicano tattoo artist followed an unconventional ... design that typically uses multiple needles to achieve bolder outlines, fine line artists use fewer needles to create softer, more ...

You may think your favorite artist is an O.G. of the tattoo world. But compared with ... and they weren’t about to let any Chicano gangster just start tattooing,” Negrete says.

“I've always been an artist, but seeing my uncle do Chicano-style tattoos, I started drawing Day of the Dead stuff and Chicano style women when I was young,” Carrasco says. “I was born and ...

And so in doing tattoos, like, how do you even approach doing something that you know is going to stick with folks forever? Miguel “Bounce” Perez: She used to draw the little old school, like these ...

I’d draw a lot to try to keep up with him, so by the time I was 11, his friends would trust me to tattoo them with Chicano-style art.” Even after he worked his way out from the artistic shadow ...