PROGRAMME

TATTOO CONTESTS

Konkurs Tatuazu Tattoofest Convention Festiwal 2018 Krakow

So far, more than 10,000 models have been presented on the festival stage. Competitions at our event are the quintessence of a tattooist meeting, and for the public the opportunity to see works at the highest level.

CATEGORIES:

Old school/Traditional

Tattoo must be based on traditional American style of tattooing featuring bold black outlines and a limited color palette. This limited color palette might include yellow, red, green, black and purple/brown. Slight shading in grey and black is acceptable.

Neotraditional

Tattoos defined as neo-traditional draw on the main elements of the traditional style, although the design, theme and composition are more elaborate and contain more details. The outline remains clear but can vary in thickness. The colour palette is expanded from the traditional tattoo with tonal transitions and colour blends. Tattoo may contain more realistic elements.

Newschool

This is a category for newschool, cartoon and comic tattoos. This style originates directly from oldschool and neotraditional but is much more experimental and open to combining different techniques and blending styles. It is characterized using thick contours, vivid, intense, and bright colours and often caricatured representations of an object or subject. Tattoos refer to the old school, but thematically they are mainly influenced by video games, comics, TV shows, cartoons, anime, graffiti, or elements of pop culture.

Ethnic tattoo (tribal, blackwork, geometry, classical Japanese tattoo)

Tattoo directly referring to tribal and primitive tattoos or those connected with a particular cultural circle. Here also geometric tattoos of simple and clear forms will be assessed.

The main criterion for assessment will be the composition and technique.

Realistic tattoo or with realistic elements of realism / b&g

A tattoo reflecting reality or reproduced from a photograph. More elaborate and abstract or surreal forms combined with realism are allowed. The use of one additional colour is permitted.

Realistic tattoo or with realistic elements of realism / color

A tattoo reflecting reality or reproduced from a photograph. More elaborate and abstract or surreal forms combined with realism are allowed. A full colour palette is allowed.

Graphic tattoo (lineworks, fineline, trashpolka, watercolor)

In this category, tattoos, and compositions with abstract forms and/or referring to printmaking and painting techniques will be evaluated.

Fusion tattoo

In this category are judged tattoos made in different styles, two-day and one-day, the condition is that it is made by a minimum of 2 artists.

General rules of competitions and qualification of works:

– categories 1-7 will be held separately for fresh and healed tattoos

– category 8 will be held on Sunday at the end of the day

– healed tattoos = open category, i.e., you don’t have to have a booth

– fresh tattoos = tattoos done during the festival, for booths holders

– now of registration to a given category you must show the tattoo or its photo for preliminary verification. The registrant has the right to refuse the entry of a given tattoo into a given or any category. In this way tattoos of too low level or not fitting to the category will be verified

– tattoos will be evaluated in terms of compliance with the style and technical level

– each tattoo can be submitted only to one category

Among all the works we’ll award the most unique tattoo.