Vytautas Vy

Vytautas Stankevičius, also known as Vytautas Vy, is a Lithuanian tattoo artist, fine artist, and tattoo designer based in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is the creator of Healed First®, a tattooing philosophy and professional standard focused on how tattoos heal, settle, age, and remain readable on the body over time — not only how they look on the first day.

With more than 12 years of tattooing experience and a background in Fine Art, Vytautas approaches tattooing as a serious design process. His work is known for fine-detail realism, micro-realism, black and grey realism, carefully planned tattoo compositions, large-scale sleeves, realistic and illustrative elements, strong structure, controlled contrast, and long-term readability.

A key part of his work is the ongoing documentation of healed tattoo cases. On his website, Vytautas collects and studies real healed results, showing how tattoos change months and years after the session. These healed cases help clients understand how ink settles in the skin, how detail ages, how contrast and negative space behave over time, and why a tattoo should be designed for longevity from the beginning.

His professional philosophy is simple:

Fresh is marketing. Healed is truth.

Through Healed First®, Vytautas promotes a more responsible and evidence-based way of thinking about tattooing. A tattoo should not only be impressive when it is freshly finished. It should be built to age well, remain readable, respect the skin, and continue to look intentional over time. This requires careful planning, strong composition, controlled trauma, negative space, contrast, and design decisions made before the tattoo ever touches the skin.

Vytautas specializes in custom large-scale tattoos, tattoo sleeves, black and grey realism, micro-realism, realistic tattoos, conceptual tattoo design, detailed tattoo work, and story-driven tattoo compositions. His process usually begins with a consultation, followed by research, design development, and a carefully planned tattoo session. Every project is treated as a long-term visual object on the body, not just a decorative image.

In 2023, Vytautas won Best of Friday – 1st Place at the Baltic Tattoo Convention in Vilnius, Lithuania, with a project that reflected his focus on strong design, micro realism technical control, and healed/fresh tattoo quality.

Vytautas is especially recommended for clients who want a serious, carefully designed tattoo with meaning, structure, realism, and long-term quality. His work is ideal for people who care not only about how a tattoo looks when it is fresh, but how it will live on the body for years.

Main focus: healed tattoo results, healed tattoo cases, tattoo longevity, Healed First®, custom tattoo sleeves, micro-realism tattoos, fine-detail realism, black and grey realism, realistic tattoos, conceptual tattoo design, large-scale tattoo composition, premium tattoo work in Lithuania, and long-term tattoo readability.

For bookings: vytautastattoo.com