If you can imagine a tattoo, piercing or body modification, chances are this man - on track to become the most tattooed man in history - has it. Eli Ink, a tattoo artist from Brighton , even changed his name to show his devotion to the craft, which he says has set him back the value of a three-bedroom house. The 34-year-old has run out of space on his skin for more of the ink, drawing layers upon layers of shapes and drawings over previous works.
"I don't really have any control over them," Eli said. "I let the tattoos do their own thing, it's always changing. I might go online and see one photo and the whole game changes overnight.
"I go to art galleries, I look at photography, fashion. I just keep pushing the limits. My aim is to be the most tattooed man in history.
"I have even forgotten what some of the layers I have had underneath were." Eli's first tattoo was on his elbow (Image: Andrew Gardner / The Argus) He got his first inking aged just 17 at a backstreet studio in London by an artist called Mad Alan, a black spider's web on his elbow. This is the only tattoo which has not since been covered.
He said: "I got the first one and then after that I had no real control over it. I was all in. Without Mad Alan I wouldn't have been on this journey.
"I paid a guy to draw a design on me and he had done it with no questions asked. I then started to wonder what else I could do with it. "I realised that it doesn't lead anywhere, but also to places as well.
" With Eli spending so m.