To demonstrate the capabilities of Pilot extra fine pens, GREY advertising agency covered six LEGO minifigures with detailed full body tattoos.
Innovative pens come equipped with 0.25mm tips that allow micro fine and ultra fine writing. They will even write on a grain of rice!
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woops
NO FREAKIN’ WAY
Dec 15th, 2011
Mick
Yes! So good, but seriously, it is “Lego” and never “Legos”
A minifig dies every time someone pluralises Lego.
Dec 15th, 2011
Sharyn
That’s pretty cool, I just wish the only female character had something a little better than a tramp stamp. Even if it is a fancy schmancy anchor in the ass.
Dec 15th, 2011
cole
badass tattoos
Dec 15th, 2011
Lilia Smiles
WOW! That’s a fine pen! But I think they should’ve made a better tattoo for the girl. I like all the other ones though!
Dec 15th, 2011
criticizer
are they built for kids to play with them and learn “creative” things?
Dec 15th, 2011
Person
….are they permanent tho?
Dec 15th, 2011
Dominic
Amazing!
Dec 15th, 2011
J
@Lilia Smiles: I’ve used these pens, and although they are fine, and are good pens, I highly highly doubt that these tattoos were creating using the pens displayed in each image as the pen company would have you believe.
I would imagine, looking at the detail, that it’s done via some sort of computer printing with the designs created on a PC.
Note that the article doesn’t actually say anywhere that the designs were drawn with the pen. It just says that some company created the designs to “demonstrate the capabilities” of the pen.
It’s possible it was done with that pen, I could be wrong. But I doubt it.
Dec 15th, 2011
douglas
I wish buying the pen also conveyed the talent.
Dec 15th, 2011
Nisa Zul
cute! nice….
Dec 15th, 2011
JuLi
I’ve got a 0,05 Copic and you can’t draw such fine lines even with those. So I guess that either the tattoos were made somehow else or the figures are much bigger than the normal ones.
Dec 15th, 2011
Gert
I also have Copics and I can get almost that light of a touch, I probably could get that fine with a .25 which is what they say is being used here. I think JuLi, that it might be more about your pressure than the pen. I write with so little pressure I have to re-write duplicate checks because I don’t press hard enough for the info to transfer usually.
Dec 15th, 2011
Carlos
This is fake even with o.25 this is too thin to be made with a 0.25, a minifig hand is about 4 milimiters wide, and even amplified, some of those line as barely visible, so i call this fake untill someone makes a video drawing that thing on a minifig arm…
Dec 15th, 2011
Lilia Smiles
@J wow thanks for the insight! And you might be right about that because the detail seems nearly impossible to do with a pen and without the slightest mistake. Looks fishy…
Dec 16th, 2011
Gunther
Not saying its impossible, but the size along with the amount of detail in the illustrations on such a small and curved surface would be extremely time consuming and tedious…and I can’t even imagine what would happen if the pen was to slip, or bleed which often times does happen. I second the idea that these “tattoos” being either photoshopped or printed onto the mini figs.
Dec 16th, 2011
flatsolid
What to expect next ? A topless Lego-girl perhaps ?
Dec 16th, 2011
Feer
THIS IS AWESOME *-*
Dec 17th, 2011
Mark
Clearly photoshop.
Dec 20th, 2011
Maz
LOL Just showed my son who has a serious collection of Lego men and he cant stop lauphing :) LOL
Jan 9th, 2012
jah
can you buy these? i want em. lol would look perfect on the shelf next to my first tattoo machines
Jun 23rd, 2012
Catherine Rhodehamel
I WANT THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 14th, 2014
Kurt andres
Where and how much
Jun 27th, 2015