This gallery focuses on black and grey realism tattoos — including portraits, symbolic pieces, and custom concepts with soft shading and detail. While realism takes the spotlight here, you’ll also find other styles of black and grey work that carry emotional depth and personal meaning.
Armour etched in shadow — a sentinel of bloodlines, bearing the crest of legacy and silent oaths.Steel and spirit entwined — this sleeve bears the echo of ancestry, cloaked in honour and forged resolveWings woven in whispers — a sacred symbol of transformation, carried in delicate lines and quiet grace.A cross of Veljusa — ancient faith anchored in ink, crowned by the Macedonian sun, burning with divine heritage.Zeus commands the storm — lightning raised in judgment, as Prometheus suffers below, chained by fate, his fire met with eagle and wrath. See the full story unfold in my video section.Above, Zeus with thunder and eagle — below, Prometheus bound for gifting fire. A tale inked in shadow and myth. Watch it come to life in the video gallery.Seen from behind, the serpent becomes a living sigil — its body inscribed with ancient marks, guarding secrets not easily spoken.Winding from hand to chest, the serpent bears the weight of symbols — mysticism and whispered truths beneath the skin.A serpent of the arcane slithers from fingertip to chest — adorned in esoteric symbols and with the sigil of Thelema in the center of the chest. Inked devotion to hidden paths.A bloom above, a skull below — this sleeve carries the dance of life and death, guarded by scales and spirit.The beat beyond the grave — a skull crowned in rhythm, roses blooming through memory, and the mark of the game etched in devotion.Sound echoes through bone — the skull listens still, roses bloom eternal, and a football rests where heart and fire once lived.Silent guardian — the dragon coils in ink, eyes steady, presence eternal, drawn from the deep well of myth.Half mandala, half guardian — the husky’s gaze pierces through worlds, a sentinel of instinct wrapped in sacred pattern.Sacred geometry in motion — a spiral of hidden laws, built from blocks of illusion and order, inked into flesh.Three-dimensional blocks rise and recede in sacred rhythm — a labyrinth of form where geometry breathes through skin.From the depths it rises — tentacles climbing the leg like whispers from the deep, reaching toward the realm above.The mouth opens, not to speak — but to release the tide’s memory. Tentacles spill forth, ancient and alive.Sideways and silent, the tentacles coil upward — an octopus dance in ink, pulling memory from the tide.Curving through flesh like sea-smoke, the tendrils twist with intention — drawn by something ancient, unseen.Lace and line entwine — a fantail in flight, roses in bloom, and beads draped like blessings across the skin.Beauty peels away to reveal the silence beneath — a face half living, half bone, mirrored by the skull that waits below.She is form and farewell — beauty fused with bone, crowned in petals and pattern. Geometry breathes, roses bloom, and death wears a living face.A rose rests at the throat, the mandala blooms at the shoulder — between them, depth and symmetry unfold in silence.
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Black and Grey Realism Tattoos in Auckland Crafted with Care
If you're searching for black and grey realism tattoos in Auckland, this is where it begins. Each piece is drawn in my private Muriwai studio, with a focus on depth, contrast, and a natural flow. Whether it's a portrait, something subtle, or a symbolic design — your tattoo will be created to last and speak your story.
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