There’s a variety of techniques used in this piece that help make it a considerably detailed small geometric mountain tattoo. There’s a smart combination of dotwork shading and geometric linework deployed to give it that interesting look. The diamond creates an interesting border for the tattooist to work inside, then shows off by creating the moon and clouds through deft touches of negative space. For such a small image, this flexes real creative muscle.

This small mountain range is created through different applications of black and gray shadow. It’s a nice piece, but could have utilized some other techniques – a border, sharp black lines for angular peaks, or differently shaped shadows – to make it stand out a lot more.

A nice mix of dotwork and short line patterns creates a nice snowy mountain scene. The small highlights – dots for the river, black trees, knobby lines on the peaks – create enough differences to give the scene a character alternative to the negative space throughout this tattoo design.

These rounded peaks look like they’ve been covered in cowhide. It must be getting closer to ski season on this mountain ink.

Here’s another black and gray group of mountains. This piece differs slightly from the previous piece because geographical coordinates were added. It must mean this mountain tattoo has a specific reference point in the “real’ world. 

This is an enjoyable abstract mountain piece. The use of dotwork morphs the solid black and gray mountains with pine trees into an entire bear. It’s quite a clever little tattoo.

This is a very fresh, crisply applied tattoo. The dotwork is on a very small scale but delivered with great skill to offset the clarity of the line work.

This is funky. This little piece of abstract mastery makes you wonder whether the guy is standing and looking out from the middle of a room, or has he taken a Polaroid photo? You could say the answer is both, given the tattoo‘s frame looks very much like a Polaroid. The line of wire and light globe is all that’s needed to create uncertainty in this simple minimalist body art.