We paid a visit to Alex Lloyd at Debut Studios in London to find out what techniques he uses to create his incredibly precise fine line illustration work.

Alex created this awesome, detailed design - including a broken sword, planets in orbit and one very dead astronaut - using black, white and greywash inks.

Check out the video to see how Alex approaches this kind of work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-5gBgN_CcU

We hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial with Alex Lloyd from Debut Studios - make sure to follow his work on Instagram! Don’t forget to keep an eye out for the next video in our How To Tattoo series.

For this tutorial on how to tattoo fine line illustration, Alex used the following supplies:

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