These skilled and patient tattoo artists know how to create the illusion of 3D with the help of shadows and perspective.

Everything has to be in 3D nowadays: our movies, our printers, and anything else we can fit an extra dimension into. And one Portland tattoo artist is now fitting three dimensions into his tattoos.

Almost every culture from the past 5,000 years has shown some evidence of decorative skin tinkering. As we move into the 21st century, tattoo culture, much like everything else, is being fused with ...