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Ignorant Style embraces the clumsy line, the wrong proportions and the absurd subject, in black and at small size.
On YokoFolio, pick the style Ignorant Style and then your city, and widen the radius if you need to. The test here is unusual: look for a hand of their own. A sincerely clumsy line doesn't look like an imitated clumsy line, and the artists who really work in this style all have a recognizable vocabulary. Be wary of portfolios where ignorant style shows up as one box among many — that's rarely the one to pick.
The name says it all: it claims ignorance of the rules of the craft — correct drawing, shading, proportion, the beautiful line. That refusal is a deliberate choice, and it's what separates it from a botched tattoo, where nobody chose anything. It still takes a sure hand: like the tag it comes from, the line goes down in one pass, with no rework and no second thoughts, and a hesitation shows immediately. Most pieces fit inside a couple of inches.
Rarely, and that's more or less the point. The style makes fun of symbolism and solemnity: it puts down a joke, an absurd image, a memory, a word. Plenty of people who wear them collect several, picked up across encounters and trips, and the collection ends up saying something none of the individual pieces does. If you're after meaning, this isn't the style; if you're after lightness, it's exactly the one.
It's the flash style par excellence: most artists post whole sheets of small pre-drawn designs you choose on the spot. Look at them before the appointment, then let yourself be carried — a lot of these pieces go on in a few minutes, which is why they turn up at flash days and conventions. One practical note: for a first try, avoid a very visible spot until you know whether this vocabulary suits you.
