Drawing - or however colored drawing (a little bit about colors)
Looking back, the drawing or monotone tattoo was more often seen on the skin, there still are a lot of adherents of this drawing technique even today. Undeniably, colorful drawings have regained their popularity, and their number is steadily increasing.
The reason is human perception, color is a physical, more precisely - optical and sometimes also psychological reality. Color is not a property of an object, but it is perceived by the human brain, it analyses and evaluates the degree of reflectivity of the surface of the object. In 1960, the physicist Newton, by refracting a beam of light through a prism, had first to divide white light or (the visible spectrum) into strips or electromagnetic wave rays of different lengths, which are perceived as different colors. He managed to distinguish seven basic colors, which are also the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and indigo (an arbitrarily introduced color, that is needed to denote the seventh shade).
A good tattoo artist can mix any shade of color from these seven colors. Can your master, do it?
There is also the law of simultaneous contrast - the opposite color, laid side by side, brightens them both, giving them both the highest degree of intensity. Green and red, applied side by side, make each other shine. And as soon as you mix these two colors together (an achromatic process), the color will approach white, and the Tone will remain gray. It is important to remember this nuance on the skin in the form of a tattoo, a frequent problem :(
Speaking of gray. There is also the effect of looking at Andrea Mantegna work, ''The Dead Christ'', monochromatic motifs on a different colored background. Such a variation of a single color is called a grisaille.
Every defect in the hands of a master can turn into an effect. We will touch on this topic further in the section on correcting the wrongdoings of a bad tattooist on your skin. Remaking these distortions - into fitting examples of art.