Tattoo Styles Explained

[LittleSally]

**If you dislike or hate tattoos - do yourself a favor and skip this MyTake...

There are many tattoo styles, but this LookBook will explain in pictures which are the most popular tattoo styles...and then it's up to you to decide which ones you like the most!

Realism

Surrealism

Black and Grey

Traditional Japanese (Irezumi)

Portraiture

Illustrative

New School

Blackwork

Dotwork

Watercolor

Sketch Work

Color Horror / Black and Grey Horror

Lettering

[Metlahaed]

All of these are really well done but you could have chosen a better example for black and grey as it was japanese first and black and grey second but whatever...

My favorite is black and grey and surrealism. But I have lettering on myself as well as surrealism and black and grey.

[COCOCHANEL]

is the first one real?
if so, why is it called realism?
that example of colour horror looks very scary.

[LittleSally]

Yeah, it's real because it depicts real things... It often has some steampunk motifs to it as well... hence the steampunkish iris of they eye there...
Realism: https://www.tattoodo.com/images/0/5330.jpg

[COCOCHANEL]

oh shoot i thought the eye was real

[SnowHearth]

You forgot Tribal, the ones originally used by indigenous peoples, and certain families with long traditions.

[LittleSally]

I was going more along the lines of what people would most likely get in this day and age... Tribal tattoos are not at the top of that list for at least a decade now...

[Imafreespirit]

nice take! I love realist tattoos but they're so expensive !

[realperson02]

i am not very interested in tattoos but i liked the Black and Grey style. also the lettering is good and definitely make an impact on people.

[Ironlak282]

Awesome take I like New School which seems to be unpopular on here. The surrealist image looks good. Nice take!

[OrionH]

Color Horror / Black and Grey Horror I love that one

[vishna]

Black and gray all the way :)

[Mr-Kabuki]

my god surrealism is the best one man