Black & Grey Tattoos

Any true Tattoo 'Artist' will truly enjoy or relish in (or certainly at least appreciate) the challenge of a Black & Grey tattoo and quite often, there is nothing quite as challenging to the artist than making the Black and Grey piece actually work. If you compare the task at hand to an artist who sketches a picture and proceeds to shade it in with one pencil - reaching different tones, highlights, and bringing the picture to life - then imagine doing that on a living breathing canvas with a machine that goes in and out of the canvas thousand of times a minute - then your getting close.

It's all good and well getting the outline right, but choosing the right needle for the finer work, shading and tone along with actually using the needle and ink effectively, is another deal altogether. It's not just like picking up a crayon and "scribbling until there is no skin left". A brand new tattoo will look completely different to the healed product. You might walk out of the tattoo studio with a portrait of a loved one thinking to yourself (he's made them look indian) - when that tattoo has healed, you'll see the overall shading skill and effect.

Don't forget that we specialise in freehand work too so don't be afraid to bring in that old Black and White / Sepia photograph, fantasy poster, album cover or Religious sketch. If it can be done as a Tattoo, Eternal Images is the best place to be. In fact, if it can't or shouldn't be done as a Tattoo, we're also the best place to be as we'll give it to you straight rather than do it just to get your money. We don't want anyone walking around with a real bad tattoo - if you ask us to do it and it's THAT bad, we'l show you the door - politely.