The clean, Anime Tattoo style is defined by its bold color palette and crisp linework. The color shading and gradients are smooth and follow the form of the subject perfectly. A strong light source and simple background bring the character forward and has you focusing solely on it. It’s a classic tattoo approach for a reason and always looks good, even though it takes a bit longer to create due to it's detail!

The Watercolor Tattoo style is what I began my career with, so I am very well versed in it. The loose linework and blending of colors create a more organic look as if you were still in the process of the creation. It allows for interesting introduction of different colors into the piece and can create really awesome flow across the body. It's my personal favorite style to work in as it takes a lot of the ‘precision’ out of the equation and allows us to be done with our tattoo session a bit quicker!

The sketchy tattoo look can be fun for those who are more into the black and grey look of a tattoo style. I see a lot of these types of tattoos that have a little bit of a color pop as well incase you want to accent a particular thing about the subject matter (like the red in Pikachu's cheeks for instance). We just use a more dense linework to help define values, and usually a darker solidly colored background really helps the subject matters pop forward! I love doing this style as it is usually a pretty short session too as we do not have the entire range of colors that we need to work with.