Tattoo Style

Some artists mix white with black ink to produce a gray shade but it is not the traditional method.

Tattoo style. Purely decorative with no specific meaning. It follows a strict set of design rules that make it easy to spot such as a limited but bold colour palette thick black outlines immaculate precision and two dimensional crisp images. Here at inked we ve decided to put together a fun tattoo style guide to show you all of the major styles no matter how traditional or unconventional there are in today s tattoo industry. A tattoo is a form of body modification where a design is made by inserting ink dyes and pigments either indelible or temporary into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment the art of making tattoos is tattooing.

Taking the traditional black on a white tattoo and changing it up to white on black an inverted design is the reverse of the standard image. Ukiyo e which translates to pictures of the floating world are perhaps the most well known art form from japan to the western world depicting beautiful nature scenes daily life for courtesans and peasants alike fashion plates stories of war ghosts animals and even erotic episodes like those within shunga the style of ukiyo e is very particular due to the way. Sometimes called old school this style of tattoo art is the oldest and most well known western form. For your personal tattoo the style you choose needs to match your personality and aesthetic.

Symbolic with a specific meaning pertinent to the wearer. As tattoos are slowly becoming more accepted as a modern art form the techniques and styles are ever branching out. Typically the tattoo is made by diluting the black ink with distilled water in various proportions creating a wash of lighter shades. We publish celebrity interviews album reviews artist profiles blogs videos tattoo pictures and more.

Tattoo styles and meanings exploded in the past century although even before then hundreds of tattoo styles existed. Style of japanese tattoos. Reminiscent of a film negative with an image of whites grays and blues on a black background you have this style of tattoo. Tattoos fall into three broad categories.

This style should actually be thought of as multiple styles or more so different traditions of tattooing from aboriginal communities all around the globe. Lettering styles include tribal traditional sailor blackletter fancy cursive script etc. Flip from the positive to the negative with an inverted tattoo. And pictorial a.

Black and grey is a style that only uses black and white ink in varying shades. Indigenous body art are the oldest in the world dating back thousands of years.