Tania Maia (Author)
Tania Maia is a Brazilian fashion designer and graduate from Santa Marcelina University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She left the profession to be a full-time tattooist in 2014. She has participated three times in the NY Empire State tattoo Expo in New York City and has travelled around the world as a guest artist in different studios. In January 2018 she opened own studio, Forasteiros Ink, in Lima, Peru. She teaches a successful online course in digital tattoo design, specializing in Blackwork. She has 29k followers on her instagram account, @7aniamaia.
El Rose (Author)
El Rose began tattooing professionally in 2016. Her style is illustrative blackwork, with delicate linework and lots of stippling. El creates most of her tattoos freehand (drawing them directly onto the skin, rather than using a stencil), using the contours of the body to influence the design. Her favourite things to tattoo are snakes, animals and anything botanical.
Francois Gautier (Author)
Francois Gautier is a French artist who has a passion for creation in all forms. After studying in the Applied Arts, Product Design and Architecture sectors, he set up a workshop to experiment in illustration, design, sculpture and glasswork. He now focuses on black and white illustration, which he views as his favourite means of expression. He is the illustrator of Dark Art: A Horror Colouring Book, Gothica: A Mysterious Colouring Book and Dimensions: A 3D Colouring Book.
