Kingsley Van Zandt

tattoo art & illustration

I like drawing, and art, and art history, and I love tattooing, and I love everything about my career now, except for writing about me sections and designing websites. Maybe someday I'll pay someone else to do it!

I am a real human artist who does real human things in my spare time, like giving unsolicited animal facts and doing things you shouldn't try at home. I used to be in veterinary and human medicine, but that got really stressful so I moved to permanently marking people's bodies as a chronic perfectionist because I guess that's less stressful, somehow.

I mostly work in illustrative stuff, both in doing actual illustrations in my free time and in leaning more towards illustrative tattooing. I am heavily influenced by the natural world around me, especially things like weird bugs, fish, carnivorous plants, fun looking rocks, and generally anything in the sea (except starfish, they freak me out!)

I watch a lot of horror movies with my three cats because they are afraid of doorbell noises and they’re not as common in horror movies compared to other genres, because I guess serial killers don’t bother with that sort of thing.