TATTOO STYLE GUIDE
1-American Traditional
Popularized by tattooist Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins in the 1930s, this style is based on bold, clean black outlines and a minimal, well saturated color palette consisting mainly of primary colors. Traditional imagery typically consists of skulls, roses, and daggers.
2-Neo-Tradicional
Neotraditional is a more modern twist on traditional American tattooing in which more realistic depth, shading, color and detail are added to traditional conventions. Many neo-traditional images include stylized similar portrait images of personified women and animals.
3-Blackwork
Blackwork tattoos are characterized by using only black ink to render images, designs or patterns through intense color blocking and/or impeccable line work. Mandalas are common images used in blackwork tattoos.
4-Black and Grey
Black and grey typically goes hand-in-hand with realism tattooing, however instead of using color, traditionally black and grey tattooing only uses black ink and water. Tattooists will water down the black ink to make it softer and more grey in order to create shades, hues and color contrasts. Nowadays many newer artists will use grey washes, or pre-watered down black ink, as well as actual grey ink and white ink for highlights.
5-Dotwork
Dotwork is a style of tattooing that renders various images, designs and patterns entirely through dots. Shading and depth is created through how far apart each dot is from the next. Common forms of dotwork include sacred geometry and stipple portraits.
6-Geometric
Geometric tattoos are done typically using only lines and geometric shapes. Sacred geometry and ornamental color design work all rely heavily on basic geometric conventions.
7-Stick and Poke
This modern form of DIY tattooing is done using a single needle that is dipped in ink and then poked through the skin repeatedly to create a simple design.
8-New School
New School is a highly animated style of tattooing that reads like a more exaggerated version of the illustrative style. Typically the images created are caricatured characters doing out of character things. Common New School subject matters include personified objects and animals in fancy clothing.
9-Watercolor
Watercolor tattoos lack all outlines and imitate the brushstroke aesthetic and standard color palette of watercolor paintings.
10-Trash Polka
Trash Polka is a style of tattooing made famous by the Buena Vista Tattoo Club. It consists entirely of a black and red color scheme characterized by collage-like images featuring moments of realism, lettering, and abstract or geometric shapes.
11-Lettering
Lettering ranges from simple tattoos of letters and words in standard fonts to highly stylized custom pieces that are usually free handed on and look both like an aesthetically pleasing design as well as legible letters or numbers.
12-Sketch Work
Sketch work tattoos imitate the rough image aesthetic found in an artist’s sketchbook and depict what appear like unfinished images or designs. They typically feature semi-colored in areas and unclear outlines.
13.Biomechanical
Biomechanical tattoos, also known as biomech, are tattoos designed based off of the client’s body flow and are typically freehanded. Usually these tattoos mimic body flow through patterns that are of mechanical, cyborg, or alien aesthetics. Bio-organic tattoos are similar to biomech, except they feature patterns reminiscent of organic organisms rather than machines.
14-Illustrative
Illustrative styles combine techniques from both traditional styles of tattooing and realism. Typically they feature bold outlines with intense color saturation paired with realistic shading techniques in order to create a tattoo that looks more like an illustration than a tattoo.
15-Realism
Realism is a style that tries to recreate images as they would appear in real life. Realism typically lacks the bold outlines found in more traditional forms of tattooing and instead uses shading and color contrasts to render the image.
16-Color Horror
Horror tattooing typically includes dark or morbid subject matters. Color horror tattoos, however, are typically portraiture and realism gone evil with popular subject matters being portraits of characters from horror films and freehanded monsters.
17-Black and Grey Horror
Like color horror, black and grey horror is rooted in dark and morbid subject matters, however this style popularized by tattooist Paul Booth typically features a combination of biomechanical or bio-organic elements with black and grey realism. Typically black and grey horror is always freehanded on the body and done as large-scale pieces such as full back pieces or sleeves.
18-Portraiture
Portraiture is a style typically done in realism in which a portrait of someone is recreated as a tattoo. Realism portraits can be found in color or black and grey and usually are created by making a stencil over a pre-existing photograph or image in order to get an exact likeness of the image to be inked.
19-Surrealism
This style is heavily influenced by Salvador Dali and consists of exaggerated, imaginary images, mashed up styles, and fantastical creations that couldn’t actually exist in nature, but look like they could.
20-Traditional Japanese (Irezumi)
Inspired by the ancient Japanese tebori (hand carved) tattooing techniques, the traditional Japanese style was popularized in Japan by the Yakuza, the Japanese criminal underworld. Like American traditional, it is based on bold black outlines and minmal shading, but typically features images inspired by traditional Japanese art and nature as well as creatures and characters from Japanese folklore. Traditional Japanese imagery typically consists of lotus flowers, koi fish, tigers, warriors and waves.
21-Neo-Japanese
Neo-Japanese is a more modern twist on traditional Japanese in which more realistic depth, shading, color, and detail are added to traditional Japanese style conventions. Many neo-Japanese tattoos feature the same iconic imagery as traditional Japanese, but are all rendered more realistically.
22-Polynesian
Polynesian tattoos are body art derived from the cultural traditions of many Polynesian tribal peoples, like the Maori and the Samoans. Unique designs rooted in tribal symbolism are created for the individual receiving the tattoo and are then usually chiseled or hand-poked into the skin via the tribe’s customary tattooing techniques.
Your individual tattoo project is already waiting for you.
Popularized by tattooist Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins in the 1930s, this style is based on bold, clean black outlines and a minimal, well saturated color palette consisting mainly of primary colors. Traditional imagery typically consists of skulls, roses, and daggers.
2-Neo-Tradicional
Neotraditional is a more modern twist on traditional American tattooing in which more realistic depth, shading, color and detail are added to traditional conventions. Many neo-traditional images include stylized similar portrait images of personified women and animals.
3-Blackwork
Blackwork tattoos are characterized by using only black ink to render images, designs or patterns through intense color blocking and/or impeccable line work. Mandalas are common images used in blackwork tattoos.
4-Black and Grey
Black and grey typically goes hand-in-hand with realism tattooing, however instead of using color, traditionally black and grey tattooing only uses black ink and water. Tattooists will water down the black ink to make it softer and more grey in order to create shades, hues and color contrasts. Nowadays many newer artists will use grey washes, or pre-watered down black ink, as well as actual grey ink and white ink for highlights.
5-Dotwork
Dotwork is a style of tattooing that renders various images, designs and patterns entirely through dots. Shading and depth is created through how far apart each dot is from the next. Common forms of dotwork include sacred geometry and stipple portraits.
6-Geometric
Geometric tattoos are done typically using only lines and geometric shapes. Sacred geometry and ornamental color design work all rely heavily on basic geometric conventions.
7-Stick and Poke
This modern form of DIY tattooing is done using a single needle that is dipped in ink and then poked through the skin repeatedly to create a simple design.
8-New School
New School is a highly animated style of tattooing that reads like a more exaggerated version of the illustrative style. Typically the images created are caricatured characters doing out of character things. Common New School subject matters include personified objects and animals in fancy clothing.
9-Watercolor
Watercolor tattoos lack all outlines and imitate the brushstroke aesthetic and standard color palette of watercolor paintings.
10-Trash Polka
Trash Polka is a style of tattooing made famous by the Buena Vista Tattoo Club. It consists entirely of a black and red color scheme characterized by collage-like images featuring moments of realism, lettering, and abstract or geometric shapes.
11-Lettering
Lettering ranges from simple tattoos of letters and words in standard fonts to highly stylized custom pieces that are usually free handed on and look both like an aesthetically pleasing design as well as legible letters or numbers.
12-Sketch Work
Sketch work tattoos imitate the rough image aesthetic found in an artist’s sketchbook and depict what appear like unfinished images or designs. They typically feature semi-colored in areas and unclear outlines.
13.Biomechanical
Biomechanical tattoos, also known as biomech, are tattoos designed based off of the client’s body flow and are typically freehanded. Usually these tattoos mimic body flow through patterns that are of mechanical, cyborg, or alien aesthetics. Bio-organic tattoos are similar to biomech, except they feature patterns reminiscent of organic organisms rather than machines.
14-Illustrative
Illustrative styles combine techniques from both traditional styles of tattooing and realism. Typically they feature bold outlines with intense color saturation paired with realistic shading techniques in order to create a tattoo that looks more like an illustration than a tattoo.
15-Realism
Realism is a style that tries to recreate images as they would appear in real life. Realism typically lacks the bold outlines found in more traditional forms of tattooing and instead uses shading and color contrasts to render the image.
16-Color Horror
Horror tattooing typically includes dark or morbid subject matters. Color horror tattoos, however, are typically portraiture and realism gone evil with popular subject matters being portraits of characters from horror films and freehanded monsters.
17-Black and Grey Horror
Like color horror, black and grey horror is rooted in dark and morbid subject matters, however this style popularized by tattooist Paul Booth typically features a combination of biomechanical or bio-organic elements with black and grey realism. Typically black and grey horror is always freehanded on the body and done as large-scale pieces such as full back pieces or sleeves.
18-Portraiture
Portraiture is a style typically done in realism in which a portrait of someone is recreated as a tattoo. Realism portraits can be found in color or black and grey and usually are created by making a stencil over a pre-existing photograph or image in order to get an exact likeness of the image to be inked.
19-Surrealism
This style is heavily influenced by Salvador Dali and consists of exaggerated, imaginary images, mashed up styles, and fantastical creations that couldn’t actually exist in nature, but look like they could.
20-Traditional Japanese (Irezumi)
Inspired by the ancient Japanese tebori (hand carved) tattooing techniques, the traditional Japanese style was popularized in Japan by the Yakuza, the Japanese criminal underworld. Like American traditional, it is based on bold black outlines and minmal shading, but typically features images inspired by traditional Japanese art and nature as well as creatures and characters from Japanese folklore. Traditional Japanese imagery typically consists of lotus flowers, koi fish, tigers, warriors and waves.
21-Neo-Japanese
Neo-Japanese is a more modern twist on traditional Japanese in which more realistic depth, shading, color, and detail are added to traditional Japanese style conventions. Many neo-Japanese tattoos feature the same iconic imagery as traditional Japanese, but are all rendered more realistically.
22-Polynesian
Polynesian tattoos are body art derived from the cultural traditions of many Polynesian tribal peoples, like the Maori and the Samoans. Unique designs rooted in tribal symbolism are created for the individual receiving the tattoo and are then usually chiseled or hand-poked into the skin via the tribe’s customary tattooing techniques.
Your individual tattoo project is already waiting for you.
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