Nicole Sotelo (Nikolo)

Hi! My name is Nicole, but I used to work with the alias Nikolo.

I have worked on different formats like drawings, making fanzines, comics and then tattooing.

I try to integrate and implement all my past learnings to have a personal and special tattoo style.

Among my graphic influences are manga, medieval engraving, cusqueño baroque, Japanese tattoo, the tattoos made in Russian prisons or the ukiyo-e, for example.

My work is focused on representing women in different ways, generally speaking as fighters, with a lot of influence from martial arts and street violence, but I work with symbolism and surrealistic metaphors too!

I tattoo plants and sometimes animals or mythological animals like dragons or yokais.