people with a very dark skin, the essence of this
technique is the brightness and projection of the
colors.
Black work tattoos also called black & grey is a style
of tattooing that uses only black ink and sometimes
one needle, currently is the best technique or style in
tattoo. It was born in prisons around the 70’s and
80’s because the prisoners had a lot of materials
there; they used to make needles with the rope of
the guitars and cigarette ashes to make the black ink
and in this time the black work was popularized in
parlors and called black and grey. Anyway, the
technique of this style is a combination between
geometric figures, points, lines or whatever, there are strong and thick lines also shaded and
smooth lines however, the grey tone is important to do a special effect in the tattoo and it can
be done with other styles for example realism, neo traditional, dot work, trash polka and more.
Good ideas are anything that you want, like animals, things, and people. For that reason this
style is one of the best because it goes with anything and other reason is it can be done in all
skins, I recommended to you this technique because the tattoo will look well.
Realism tatoos is a form to represent something as
real as possible; it is one of the most difficult styles
because it takes a lot of time and patience. Realism
doesn’t have a specific history but his roots are with
the artistic realism that was an artistic movement in
the XlX century. The technique is difficult, the artist
needs to guide with photography of whatever, and it
takes a lot of time because the main purpose of this
style is to copy the image exactly; it can be done
with a lots of colors and the artist needs some
needles because the tattoo requires some details,
and the color doesn’t matter and the most important
is the light management. The best ideas for this
style in my opinion are faces because it is the best form to represent realism. Taking into
account these points I recommended to you this style if you like how the things in the real life
look like, the advantage is that it can be done in all kinds of skins and it looks very good.
Given these points, you can get a tattoo taking into consideration the preference of your style
like traditional, black work or realism and obviously your time, money and your endurance of
pain because it is a permanent mark in your body, for that reason don’t get a tattoo if you don’t
know what you want. If you choose a specific style, don’t hesitate but only do it if you like it.