Our guide continues! Here are 5 more styles to take inspiration from. What do you think about it?
DOTWORK
It is a very new style of tattoo that is inspired by a pictorial current that developed mainly in France between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the puntinism. The color is broken down into a series of tiny dots that play between them in size and in their proximity, creating thanks to the variation in intensity of shadows and movement. Famous paintings by the masters of this pictorial current are often reproduced in the tattoos made with this technique. If you decide to give yourself a new tattoo in this style, look for a specialized artist. The dotwork will require an extreme precision in the tattoo artist's execution, no haste and a lot of patience on your part.
GEOMETRICO
Playing with geometry, this is the sense of geometric tattoo style. Facts of sharp and dark lines that form perfect designs, intersecting lines, triangles that blend together to create extravagant shapes and figures. The geometric tattoo fits all parts of the body, from chest to back or neck or even hands. Surely a very original new tattoo.
LETTERING
Very often what drives you to make a new tattoo is an important event, change or feeling. Often you feel captured by a sentence or sometimes it is a name to which we are bound. We therefore feel the desire to impress it in our skin. The lettering tattoo opens up a myriad of possibilities, from font style to the language in which it can be written.
POLYNESIAN AND MAORIANS
When we think of the Polynesian tattoo we think of an ancient culture that has made tattooing its expression of identity. There are different types of Polynesian tattoos, however, they can be divided into two main categories. The first, Enata, represents the place of the individual, the social state, the history of life. The second, Etua, represents honour. These tattoos are "worn" like talismans. The designs are stylised and the most popular are those from the islands inhabited by the Maori people and Hawaii. They are complex designs with spirals and curved shapes, black ink and very large designs. The most common Hawaiian designs are the sea turtle, arrows, lizards, tropical flowers and dolphins.
GIAPPONESE
The culture of tattooing in Japanese civilization is very ancient. The traditional Japanese tattoo, as it has been handed down to the present day, is called Irezumi. This style originated during the eighteenth century. It is a traditional style with unmistakable characteristics. The motifs reproduced are few and include legendary heroes and religious-inspired decorations, along with symbolic plants and animals such as the Koi carp. All these elements are reproduced on the skin to enhance the body's lines. At the same time, they tell a story that must reveal the personality of the person being tattooed.
Tattoos tend to be only one, big or very large tattoo made for later extensions. Those who choose the traditional Japanese style as a new tattoo should know that this technique is done by hand. If you don't use modern machines, the execution is much slower and one is more painful. But patience and endurance are rewarded by tattoos of extraordinary beauty.
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