00:00:00Meet Gabriel Pederone
00:01:04How To Book The Right Way
00:01:51A Portrait With A Lost Story
00:02:34Why Child Portraits Are So Hard
00:04:19Final Take On His Work
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A portrait tattoo can either look like a person or like a warning, and the difference is usually the artist’s control of light, color, and restraint. We put a spotlight on Gabriel Pellerone, a Milan and Calabria tattoo artist known for color realism and photorealistic portrait tattoos that stay clean, readable, and emotionally sharp, even when the reference is an old, grainy photograph. If you’ve been searching for an Italy tattoo appointment, a Milan portrait tattoo, or a realism artist who can actually nail likeness, this conversation lays out what makes his work stand out.
We talk about why restoring an aging photo on skin is so hard: faded contrast, broken color information, and the pressure that comes with memorial tattoos and family portraits. One standout piece centers on a father and son and may reflect the kind of story that hits people right in the chest, honoring someone you never got to meet while still keeping the image honest. The goal isn’t to “improve” the past, but to translate it faithfully and still give it the vibrance and life that time steals from paper.
Then we get technical about a topic most people never consider: child portrait tattoos. Kids don’t have the wrinkles and texture that help artists create depth, so the work depends on perfectly smooth tones, careful edges, and a deep understanding of how ink settles as skin heals. We also share practical booking guidance, including why some top artists prefer a contact form over DMs and how to plan if you’re traveling or hoping to catch a guest spot in New York City.
If you like sharp breakdowns of great tattooing and want more artist spotlights like this, subscribe, share this with a friend who’s planning a portrait piece, and leave a review with the tattoo topic you want us to cover next.
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Alright, guys, welcome to another episode of Discovery.
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And today we're bringing you a pre-cool artist.
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His name's Gabriel Pedarone.
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He tattoos out of Milan, I believe, as well as Calabria.
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So if you're ever in Italy, you're taking one of those honeymoon trips or you're just trying to go visit.
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This is a super cool artist to see.
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Because you get a vacation and you get blasted.
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This artist is super sick.
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He's gonna specialize in color realism, but also photo color realism.
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This man is taking super grainy photos.
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Like I've seen some of the craziest photos, and you have to understand what's difficult with this, and I'll get into it in my favorite piece is taking a photo that's old, right?
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You have a grandparent, you have a loved one, and you only have so many photos, and he's almost giving it more vibrance, more life.
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But I'll get into that a little bit later.
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This artist, again, is tattooing out of Italy, but I do know that he travels to New York City, so he's not completely out of touch.
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So if you're looking to book with Gabriel, you're gonna want to either go to his Instagram.
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He actually has again a lot of these artists have these chat groups.
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He's showing you work in real time that he's not even posting yet, so you can see that.
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And then he also has a link.
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His link is gonna be in Italian and English, so you can select English, and there's gonna be a contact tab.
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In that contact tab, you're just gonna again fill it all out, put what you want, and I'm sure we'll get a hold of you.
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You could DM him, but when these artists have these contact tabs, it usually means that this is how they want the form of communication.
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This is Gabriel Pellerone, and welcome to Discover.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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We're back with my favorite piece in Gabriel Peleroni.
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It's gonna be this portrait of a father, uh, a son, uh, something I read in the comments, I'm not sure.
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Maybe it says his father he never knew.
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So maybe he has a photo of this father um that he never got to meet, maybe because of some kind of death or anything like that.
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And the photo that he brought in and does on his body looks so identical.
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It actually even has more vibrance than the actual photo because it's an older photo, so it's like he puts more life and more color into the photo.
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It's absolutely stunning.
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This guy might be the best portrait tattoo artist I've ever seen.
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Alright, guys, so this is my favorite piece from Gabriel.
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This piece is so fucking sick, dude.
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You have to understand with these photo realistic portraits doing a child is so fucking difficult.
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The level that it takes to take the photo of a child and then translate that onto skin in a tattoo is so difficult.
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And I do know a lot of times we'll have clients come back in to do a touch-up.
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Because remember, when you're working the skin, you get redness, the skin inflames.
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So, like, even ink has to set and sit and color kind of changes.
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You have to understand with these with these child portraits, children are very soft.
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They don't have any kind of like they have contours and they have textures, yes, but like to can conceptually put that on somebody's body as as a tattoo is extremely difficult because of the depth to be able to get these really soft tones when there's not a lot of like texture with that and depth when it comes to it.
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When you do an older person, right, they have wrinkles, so you can show depth, you can show texture, and you can show contrast through these wrinkles.
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But a child doesn't have that, it's just fresh new skin.
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So to be able to take that and then put it onto a tattoo and not only take that image and make it identical, but he almost gives these images more life.
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This piece is super, super clean.
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It looks just like this kid's child.
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The the photo that he brought in, I love this piece, it's really cool, and almost all his portraits look like this.
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So if you want to get a portrait and it's dead on and you're looking for something like on the next level, then this is your artist.
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This is my favorite piece, and welcome to our discovery.
00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:08.640
Alright, guys, welcome to another episode of Discovery.
00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:11.519
And today we're bringing you a pre-cool artist.
00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:13.599
His name's Gabriel Pedarone.
00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:18.800
He tattoos out of Milan, I believe, as well as Calabria.
00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:23.600
So if you're ever in Italy, you're taking one of those honeymoon trips or you're just trying to go visit.
00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:25.920
This is a super cool artist to see.
00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:29.679
Because you get a vacation and you get blasted.
00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.920
This artist is super sick.
00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:38.640
He's gonna specialize in color realism, but also photo color realism.
00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:43.679
This man is taking super grainy photos.
00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:53.520
Like I've seen some of the craziest photos, and you have to understand what's difficult with this, and I'll get into it in my favorite piece is taking a photo that's old, right?
00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:02.000
You have a grandparent, you have a loved one, and you only have so many photos, and he's almost giving it more vibrance, more life.
00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.480
But I'll get into that a little bit later.
00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:12.319
This artist, again, is tattooing out of Italy, but I do know that he travels to New York City, so he's not completely out of touch.
00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:18.319
So if you're looking to book with Gabriel, you're gonna want to either go to his Instagram.
00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.680
He actually has again a lot of these artists have these chat groups.
00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:26.719
He's showing you work in real time that he's not even posting yet, so you can see that.
00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:28.079
And then he also has a link.
00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:34.480
His link is gonna be in Italian and English, so you can select English, and there's gonna be a contact tab.
00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:40.640
In that contact tab, you're just gonna again fill it all out, put what you want, and I'm sure we'll get a hold of you.
00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:47.359
You could DM him, but when these artists have these contact tabs, it usually means that this is how they want the form of communication.
00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:51.120
This is Gabriel Pellerone, and welcome to Discover.
00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:53.120
Are you fucking kidding me?
00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.400
We're back with my favorite piece in Gabriel Peleroni.
00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:03.599
It's gonna be this portrait of a father, uh, a son, uh, something I read in the comments, I'm not sure.
00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:05.840
Maybe it says his father he never knew.
00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:13.199
So maybe he has a photo of this father um that he never got to meet, maybe because of some kind of death or anything like that.
00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:18.479
And the photo that he brought in and does on his body looks so identical.
00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:28.639
It actually even has more vibrance than the actual photo because it's an older photo, so it's like he puts more life and more color into the photo.
00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:30.240
It's absolutely stunning.
00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.719
This guy might be the best portrait tattoo artist I've ever seen.
00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.240
Alright, guys, so this is my favorite piece from Gabriel.
00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.960
This piece is so fucking sick, dude.
00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:50.240
You have to understand with these photo realistic portraits doing a child is so fucking difficult.
00:02:50.400 --> 00:03:00.080
The level that it takes to take the photo of a child and then translate that onto skin in a tattoo is so difficult.
00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.879
And I do know a lot of times we'll have clients come back in to do a touch-up.
00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:10.400
Because remember, when you're working the skin, you get redness, the skin inflames.
00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:16.240
So, like, even ink has to set and sit and color kind of changes.
00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:23.360
You have to understand with these with these child portraits, children are very soft.
00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:45.919
They don't have any kind of like they have contours and they have textures, yes, but like to can conceptually put that on somebody's body as as a tattoo is extremely difficult because of the depth to be able to get these really soft tones when there's not a lot of like texture with that and depth when it comes to it.
00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:53.199
When you do an older person, right, they have wrinkles, so you can show depth, you can show texture, and you can show contrast through these wrinkles.
00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:57.439
But a child doesn't have that, it's just fresh new skin.
00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:07.039
So to be able to take that and then put it onto a tattoo and not only take that image and make it identical, but he almost gives these images more life.
00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:09.120
This piece is super, super clean.
00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.280
It looks just like this kid's child.
00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:17.600
The the photo that he brought in, I love this piece, it's really cool, and almost all his portraits look like this.
00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:25.120
So if you want to get a portrait and it's dead on and you're looking for something like on the next level, then this is your artist.
00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.240
This is my favorite piece, and welcome to our discovery.
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