Tatoo Dragon

A Tatoo Dragon is a really great design option for anyone who is looking for a tattoo that is a mix of both traditional and contemporary designs and symbols.

When people see a Tatoo Dragon, what they perceive really depends on how the Tatoo Dragon has been designed. A lot of Tatoo Dragon art is inked into the skin with the use one specific ink color—aside from the variant colored inks used for shading and dimension—which is a great option for a lot of ink-eager folks. It is really popular to get a Tatoo Dragon inked onto your back as a full-back tattoo piece.

There are a lot of great examples that show how a Tatoo Dragon is colored in with the use of black and varying shades of gray and white inks for three-dimensional effects as well as aesthetic variation. A Tatoo Dragon piece could also be colored in with a rich and vibrant red colored ink—or perhaps even a darker colored red like crimson—which is equally if not more dramatic than is a Tatoo Dragon inked-in with the basic color black.

A lot of Tatoo Dragon pieces incorporate traditional Eastern-based images of the Dragon, such as images based in either traditional Japanese or ancient Chinese culture. An example of a traditional Japanese Tatoo Dragon is the serpent and snake-like fabled Japanese Dragon as well as the mythical Japanese Koi Dragon. Despite each Tatoo Dragon being rooted in Japanese culture, the image of each Tatoo Dragon is strikingly different from the other.

The Koi Tatoo Dragon would look a lot like a Koi fish—since, according to ancient Japanese lore, the Koi Dragon transforms from the body Koi fish to symbolize the ascension of the fish’s spiritual self to a higher plane of existence—whereas the traditional image of a Dragon in Japanese culture is more serpent or snakelike in its body form than it is fishlike. It is also tied to royalty and or warrior status—both things that the Koi Dragon is not expressive of.

While the Japanese Koi Dragon and the traditional Chinese Dragon image both share the likelihood of having colors such as red and orange in their design, the Chinese Tatoo Dragon does not look like a fish, nor does it reside near the water or look like a serpent like the traditional image of the Japanese Dragon does. Rather, the Tatoo Dragon—if designed with traditional Chinese culure imagery in mind—is large, powerful, and may display the ability to fly with wings. It is a symbol not only of nobility—like the Japanese Dragon—but a good luck charm and good fortune talisman as well.