My recommendations: the polish artists Sebastian and Milena Żmijewski

If you are looking for inspiration for a biomechanical / 3D tattoo I recommend you to visit this website: www.bloodyart.pl (don't worry, is translated in English). The sites belongs to Sebastian and Milena Żmijewski, two Polish brothers who run together their own business: a tattoo studio called “Bloody Art” in Gdansk, Poland. If you decide to visit Gdansk (which, by the way, is one most beautiful cities of Poland) and you want to get a really stunning tattoo you can pay them a visit.

Sebastian Żmijewski is an amazing artist with more than 20 years of experience in tattoo art. A versatile artist and capable of almost everything, his pieces of work include any type of tattoos. Sebastian favourites are portraits and photo realistic challenges and he is a god when it comes to black & grey and covers-up.

Milena Żmijewski is also an artist, with painting, drawing and graphics experience as well as make-up and interior design knowledge. She had been learning tattooing techniques from her brother since 2011 and she is an important component of his projects. Milena does some of the most detailed paintings which Sebastian carefully depicts into skin afterwards.

Below you can see several examples of Sebastian and Milena’s stunning tattoos. I've selected only a few images from their huge collection. For more images, visit the original photo-gallery at this address: http://www.bloodyart.pl/#tattoo

A biomechanical corset tattoo

Forearm tattoo: mounted medieval knights

Biomechanical tattoo covering the lateral side of the body

Biomechanical tattoo: a gun loaded with monsters-bullets

Back-tattoo: a medieval ship

Biomechanical tattoo covering a man's chest, shoulder and upper arm

Biomechanical tattoo on the leg

3D tattoo on the calf

3D tattoos: dark-art biomechanical tattoos
Biomechanical tattoos: alien infestation
Cyborg Tattoos photos
Biomechanical tattoos

Cyborg Tattoos photos

The cyborg tattoo (or robot tattoo) is one of the main themes of the biomechanical tattoos. The cyborg style tattoos present the internal human body as a mechanical structure, made up of a metal skeleton along with titanium tendons and various organs of the human body. Usually, the cyborg tattoos contain many other elements besides metal, such as wires, microchips and other similar compounds that could visually substitute bones, muscles and tendons.

biomechanical tattoo on the calf

a cyborg-style tatoo on the calf

robotic forearm

cyborg-style tattoo on the shoulder and arm

biomechanical tattoo covering the chest, the shoulder and the entire arm

biomechanical tattoo on the head, neck and shoulder

3D tattoo: a leather jacket covering a mechanical skeleton

robotic components revealed under the torned skin

a complex mechanism tattooed on the calf

robot leg

biomech tattoo on the back and shoulder

robotic legs (Terminator style)

biomech tattoo: blue wires connecting the foot and the calf

big size cyborg tattoo covering the entire leg

armoured shoulder

Biomechanical tattoos

Biomechanical art (also called Biomech) is a surrealistic style of art that combines elements of machines or alien tissues with human organics. Rendered with distinct realism, biomechanical art expresses an internal fantasy world, most typically represented with human or animal anatomy where bones and joints are replaced with metal pistons and gears, but infused with muscles and tendons.

various biomechanical tattoos

Biomechanical art was popularized in 1979 when Swiss artist H.R. Giger designed the alien creatures in Ridley Scott's Oscar winning movie Alien. After the popularity of Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien, tattoo artists began tattooing images taken directly from the movie, and from artist H.R. Giger's Necronomicon series. As the biomechanical tattoo art style became increasingly popular, tattoo artists such as Guy Aitchison and Aaron Cain began designing their own original, biomechanical art, creating one of tattoo's most popular contemporary tattoo art movements.


The most popular themes for the biomech tattoos are:
- the cyborg / robots tattoos (the skin is torn and reveals mechanical and robotic components that are enhanced by natural systems in the human body); they are typically done in black and grey, with white highlights, as these metallic, monochromatic colors are usually associated with machinery, but often red ink is used to portray muscle or tissue while blue ink is used for cables and wires. More recently, the style has evolved to sometimes include bright, unnatural colors for the wires and gears.

biomechanical tattoo: cyborg arm

- alien infestation (fusions of alien tissues with mechanical components underneath a person’s skin)

biomech tattoo: alien creature

- human body parts (bones, muscles, skulls, heads, faces, eyes, hands etc) or even human fetuses

biomechanical tattoo: human eye

biomechanical tattoo: human bones

- various animals or parts of the animals (snakes, octopuses, tentacles)

biomechanical tattoo: tentacles emerging from the head

- mythical creatures and beasts, demons, zombies, monsters, etc

biomechanical tattoo: a monster inside someone's body

Since these tattoo represent the future and the unknown, they can really be anything you desire and you can let your imagination can run wild. Creativity is key with all of the possibilities in a Biomechanical tattoo.

The best and most artistic biomechanical tattoos use an understanding of human anatomy to blend the natural body into the artificial machine components. Biomechanical tattoos often mimic the contours of muscles and bones, following the human musculoskeletal system. The point of these tattoos is to appear natural or even possible, to be believable and realistic. These tattoos are only successful when they appear to trick the eye, known as a trompe l'oeil in artistic terms. The tattoos don't need to be actually plausible, but must appear so. Talented artists fuse the human body (particularly muscles, tendons, and bones) with gears, wiring, circuits, tubes, and levers. Because of this, placement is an essential component of even the best designs. The biomechanical tattoo must be placed over the correct joints and muscles in order to look as believable as possible. Furthermore, the artist must be able to blend the tattoo into the normal, un-tattooed skin. If the biomechanical tattoo looks like a sticker or out of place then the entire effect is ruined, even if the actual tattoo is nicely executed.