Tattoo Designs

We can differentiate the images of such tattoos, e.g. Japanese Koi or flames, cards, dice, swallows in tattoos of New School. Every design can be of Japanese, tribal, New School style or some other style. As the result, some images of concrete style are frequently used in wide diapason of styles. You may mix some different styles, for example, Japanese with New school and create New Koi style or tribal with biomechanical styles to show the peculiarities of several styles.

Tattoo artist finds one suitable style or combines two styles; it depends on the aim of tattoo, his experience, tattoo customs, his unique style in the way of making the tattoo. Any person who are interested in making a tattoo should understand that the quality and view of his tattoo hangs on the tattoo master’s equipment and skills.

Despite great popularity of mixed styles and personal styles of the clients, the traditional methods of tattoos have strict principles concerning the tattoo’s subject, positioning, and the aspects of applying. Traditional tribal or Japanese tattoo designs have their special strict and important rules as they are used to satisfy many moral and social aims.

Bright colors of new tattoo school are contrasted be the style of black and grey colors, where shades of grey show depth and tone in tattoo, it makes this style favourite for many portrait artists and forms the final images of beautiful tone. As in many styles, they are as very good as the artist applies them, and the quality of portrait depth and tone depends on the artist talent and his skills rather then what style he use, black or grey work are mostly similar to fine pencil drawing in final version, with shades of black and grey, combined very fine and smoothly.

Biomechanical tattoos acquaint humanity with mechanical world and draw inspiration from the work of the illustrator H.R. Geiger. His famous pictures and dark artwork, surreal objects and landscapes influence on biomechanical tattoos by special features. H.R. Geiger is the famous person, who created much of artworks and creatures for world-wide films as Alien, by the way biomechanical tattoos are usually shows the miserable part of the 'machinery' of life indicated beneath. In these latter days biomechanical styles combined with other styles to show the other things aside from machinery hidden beneath the skin of people, so artists and their clients designed some astonishing ideas, how to use biomechanical or 'biomech' style.

Tribal tattoo is very popular style of the last decade in the West; they have some nearness with the original tattoos of tribal people, who named this style, only the methods and patterns are so different. So, traditional tribal tattoos, which are practiced around the world and generally, are made with the help of organic instruments, natural pigments whereas present-day tribal styles are applied with the use of tattoo instrument and synthetic inks.

The place and patterns of traditional tribal styles were the parts of their rituals, mostly when it was connected with geographical position and name of any family. It was special design that cannot be changed, so shamen or other holy men have the obligations as tattoo master of his tribe, besides some ceremonies of initiation should be held with the making of tattoo. Nowadays the traditional tribal designs can be revealed, and western tribal tattoos are related to the meaning of term ‘tribal’, also they are sorted by the names i.e. ‘Aztec’, ‘Maori’, ‘Polynesian’ and so on. Such tribal tattoos are mixed with many modern tattoo styles, but the tribal signs have their own meaning. It has not only the visual meaning as unique tattoo but also as something like new ‘initiation’ into early adulthood and the regard for the art aspects is not so big. Therefore some people who make tribal tattoos appreciate astonishing and interesting art, this style of tattooing is popular among such people, who prefer historical or any deep meanings, mysterious signs, which show the way of tribal life, their customs, traditions, thoughts and understanding of outward things.