Quick Guide to Tattoo Styles

Unleash your inner artist with our Quick Guide to Tattoo Styles!

Unleash your inner artist with our Quick Guide to Tattoo Styles!

Watercolor Tattoos

Traditional Tattoos

Abstract Adventures

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Traditional Tattoos

Commonly referred to as Americana, this style has its roots in the tattooing practices of sailors. These tattoos boast bold black outlines, straightforward shading, and a basic color palette.
Their 2-dimensional images display icons such as eagles, flags, clovers, pin-up girls, sailors, daggers, skulls, roses, and dice.

Watercolor Tattoos

This style is distinguished by vibrant hues that permeate the skin, resembling ink splashed onto a canvas. The colors may be incorporated with a figure outlined in black, and often the color extends beyond this central image. Although the colors are the primary focus, it's the interplay of shading and contrast that defines this style's essence. The manner in which the colors transition, traverse the space, and defy the black boundaries, seemingly by accident, allows us to forget that it was created with a needle rather than a brush.

Tribal Tattoos

Tribal, as a style, embraces numerous aboriginal and primitive tattoo customs. Native tribes would utilize symbols to inscribe the passage of rites, indicate social standing, demonstrate group affiliation, document wartime accomplishments, and serve spiritual and ceremonial functions. The term is also applied to contemporary tribal tattoos that imitate age-old customs.

Geometric Tattoos

Within this approach, recurring motifs, balance, tangible items, and shapes exist, so long as they adhere to a structure. It harnesses geometric potency to produce a visually captivating entirety.

Surrealism Tattoos

As a tattoo genre, it frequently symbolizes dreams, disordered thoughts, and imaginative interpretations of the universe. It defies rationale and structure, emphasizing originality and wonder. These tattoos typically convey uniqueness and analytical thinking. This style gained prominence towards the close of the 20th century, as tattoo craftsmen began to produce their distinctive surreal designs on skin. These manifest as both imitations of renowned artists' works (such as Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, or Max Ernst) and efforts to actualize a client's fantasy by combining various components in unconventional, seemingly disjointed ways. Surrealist tattoos must maintain aesthetic harmony and never become wholly chaotic or meaningless. They juxtapose elements of realism and fantasy to breathe life into an imaginary yet comprehensible world, which at times can represent the subconscious mind.

Chicano Tattoos

Originally a derogatory term, the phrase gained popularity in the 1960s to identify Mexican Americans. This genre characterizes the tattoos chosen by Hispanics to symbolize their cultural identity and gang affiliation, akin to Yakuza tattoos in some ways. These tattoos showcase large designs featuring religious symbols, angels, firearms, sayings, and portraits. Specific tattoos might represent particular accomplishments, influenced by original tribal tattoos and traditional American style. Today, one doesn't need to be a central American gang member to sport such a tattoo, but a commitment to an expansive design and numerous hours of tattooing are essential to pull it off.

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