Curtis is an awesome return client of mine who I really enjoy working with. Good banter every time he comes in! He has Carrribean/English roots and so has a darker skin tone which I love working with. We quite often get people enquiring about if Japanese snd western traditional style tattoos work in darker complexions, and I think the answer is definitely yes. Black and grey works super well, but there is definitely room for colour too, and I like the challenge of making an effective colour tattoo in any skin tone. Often I’ll go for a design that is bold and contrasting, and limit the colour pallet. A tattoo will of course look different in every different tone of skin, and there will be different levels of tone and brightness, but in my opinion a real tattoo should work for every body. A lot of modern styles won’t hold up in darker skin tones, and the artists who tattoo like this have to turn people away if their style won’t work on their skin. Honestly if I had to turn people away based on that I would hate it.
Now that we have finished his sleeve/ chest plate, we have lined up a leg sleeve with a Tiger, rocks, cloud, bamboo, and sakura.I lined up the sleeve and did some background today, and will be adding colour to the Tiger, and floral elements at the end.
