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Cross hatching is another common element of a sketch tattoo.
A sketch tattoo could depict anything you can imagine, from realistic human faces to abstract geometric designs. These tattoos end up looking as if they were sketched onto human skin with a pencil or an India ink pen.
Images of human beings and animals work well with sketch-style tattoo designs if they’re drawn in a stylized, geometric way that emphasizes the lines that make up the planes of the living thing.
Lots of natural images such as wings, feathers, turtle shells, flames and mountains can also be translated into the sketch style by a talented tattoo artist. Steampunk designs are also
Color is relatively rare in sketch tattoo designs. Most of these are done in black line style. For a highly individual design, you might decide to incorporate one or two areas of color into a sketch tattoo.
The meaning behind a sketch tattoo design is highly personal to the individual who gets the tattoo.
Sketch tattoos might show that the person with the tattoo is an artist or has a strong connection to an artist or the art world, or it could be used to show that the person thinks “outside the lines” or feels as if the lines between art and reality are blurred.
