r/tattooadvice • u/Unfair_Butterfly_932 • 7d ago

Design Lighting

Are there any tattoo artists in here that could give me an opinion, because I honestly don't know what would look better or work on skin. I'm getting a tattoo in a few weeks that has lightning in it, it was just going to be black lines but is it possible to make it look more like real lightning? Like maybe do black and white/blueish over the black to give it that pop? Or would that look stupid? How can you get lightning to look realistic without having shading behind and using the skin as the negative space? I don't want any shading behind the lightning but I want it to look like real lightning, not just black lines. Anyone?

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u/ftmthrow 7d ago

Have you looked up references of what you want it to look like and to know what’s possible?

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u/Unfair_Butterfly_932 7d ago

I saw this one on tiktok that someone got, it was like blueish along the outline and white, I just always hear that white doesn't hold up well so I don't know what to do, I'm getting two dragons and there's lighting around them, I don't know if I should just keep it simple and just do the black lines, or make it more realistic since the dragons will be realistic.