Asian Tattoos Designs

The style of an Asian tattoo have changed over the years, traditional tattoos were done using tebori where by a bundle of needles were dipped in an ink made of charcoal and patted vigorously over the skin to create deep vivid black lines. This bold shading is now a trademark of Asian tattoos and is kept alive in modern designs in a style now known as chiaroscuro.

The images seen in Asian tattoos can vary as much as the culture with literally hundreds of designs to pick from, most popular are probably Kio fish, Dragons, and the art form known as Kanji. The majority of Asian style tattoos take meaning from Chinese or Japanese fokelore but images from around the continents play host a verity of designs unseen anywhere else in the world.