Seeing graphite, with its different merits mixed with the quality of the paper, inspires similarities with black tattoo ink and its different dilutions. You paint the necessary nuances into the form on the skin as you do on the paper.

These similitudes inspire such enjoyment when playing with the shades and the light, across the color of the paper or the skin.

The least intervention for the most effect lets you cover large surfaces of either material, without necessarily saturating your chosen canvas.

This technique does not demand much equipment. Allyou need are pencils, paper, a few rubbers and a bit of time.

It is a good way of focusing on detail, of playing with the possibilities of the rubber to light up your creation.

This is probably, for now, the only thing we cannot achieve in tattooing.

But, with laser and cutting techniques, I suppose we could still try.