For tattooers studying tribal design with more intention, Borneo by Jeroen Franken is a serious reference on Borneo-style motifs—how bold forms are built, refined, and made to read clearly.
Tribal tattoo traditions from Borneo carry deep cultural meaning and visual language. In this book, Jeroen Franken of Seven Seas Tattoos shares his long-term study and interpretation of Borneo-style design through the lens of drawing practice—showing how he explores shape, line, and form to create strong, readable motifs.
Borneo offers an inside look at process: from preliminary outlines and sketch studies to fully rendered works. The artwork spans the artist’s career from 1993 to 2017, revealing range, repetition, and evolution—the kind of reference that rewards slow study.
This title is especially useful if you want to:
- Study pattern structure, flow, and negative space in tribal composition
- See how designs move from rough outline → finished drawing
- Build a stronger library of Borneo-style tribal motifs for reference and practice
Book details
- Title: Borneo
- Binding: Softcover
- Language: English
- Paper type: 115 gr Munken Print Cream
- Pages: 288
- Size: 174 × 250 mm
- ISBN: 978-90-817014-8-8