from blueprint to bodysuit
A bodysuit is a commitment. Not a booking.
Twelve to thirty-six months. One artist. Custom large-scale irezumi, rooted in source study, executed across multiple sessions to let the skin heal.
Healed bodysuit work. Years after the last session.
Capacity over volume. Four reasons.
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Capacity
Three to five bodysuit projects per year. Each project requires eighty to one hundred and forty hours of skin time. Anything more would compromise active commissions.
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Source study
Ongoing ukiyo-e woodblock study and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts foundation. The composition rules come from the source, not from someone else’s portfolio.
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Multi-session discipline
Sessions sit six to twelve weeks apart so skin can heal between rounds. Twelve to thirty-six months per bodysuit. Rushed bodysuits look rushed at year five.
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International scope
Most bodysuit collectors arrive from outside Denmark. Adam plans multi-day session blocks around the collector’s travel schedule, not the other way around.
How a bodysuit goes from application to last session.
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Apply with your project vision.
The form below is the only intake. Adam reads every application himself. The more context you give about motif, story, and body, the faster he can evaluate fit.
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Sixty to ninety minute consultation call.
A bodysuit conversation, not a booking call. Adam talks composition, motif weight, body flow, and the rules he bends. You leave knowing whether the project is a fit before any deposit changes hands.
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Custom artwork. Two to four weeks.
Adam drafts the full plan from source study, not from someone else’s portfolio. You see progress in writing, react, refine. Nothing goes to skin until the artwork is final.
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Multi-session execution, twelve to thirty-six months.
Sessions run six to eight hours, spaced six to twelve weeks apart to let skin heal. A backpiece sits around eighty to a hundred and forty hours. A full bodysuit sits well above that.
multi-session reality
The body heals slower than the calendar.
A bodysuit is not a booking. It is a commitment to one artist for the better part of a year, sometimes three.
The body heals slower than the calendar. Eighty to one hundred and forty hours of work land on skin that needs six to twelve weeks between sessions to do what skin does. Rushed bodysuits look rushed at year five. That is the trade.
“Finishing a bodysuit honourably matters more than starting more of them.”
Adam takes a small number of bodysuit projects each year because finishing them honourably matters more than starting more of them. The artwork is custom from source study, not stitched from references. The rules of traditional Japanese tattooing are bent, never broken.
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· Adam Vecht
“I am chasing the story and the meaning behind the tattoo. Often there is one, even though the client might not be aware of it. My style is rooted, closer to traditional Japanese tattoos. I work from core principles, and bend the rules without breaking them.”
· Adam Vecht
Pricing is presented without apology.
A bodysuit project lives at the upper bound of the price ledger. The numbers below are direct. No softening.
- Denmark day session, six hours
- 7,000 DKK
- Denmark weekend day
- 8,000 DKK
- Denmark hourly rate
- 1,250 DKK
- Abroad day session
- 7,500 to 8,000 DKK
- Full backpiece, estimated total
- 60,000 to 90,000 DKK
- Full bodysuit, estimated total
- 120,000 to 200,000 DKK
Deposit. One thousand DKK per non-consecutive session. Non-refundable. Transfers and is deducted at the last session. Multi-day block, three consecutive days, three thousand DKK. Bodysuit projects begin only after a consultation call and signed artwork sign-off.
Or if the project is smaller
Looking for a single-motif piece instead?
Single-motif projects run one to three sessions. The symbolism guide is sent with every application. A faster conversation, lower commitment, same craft.
international travel is the norm
Bodysuit clients fly in.
Bodysuit projects rarely happen near home. Clients arrive in Copenhagen from across Europe, North America, and Asia for multi-day session blocks.
Apply with your project.
Adam reads every application personally. Bodysuit applications are rare and get more attention than single-motif requests. Multi-session reality is acknowledged before any artwork begins. No copies, no colour realism, no portraits.