If you are looking for an amazing way to have your tattoo idea designed on your skin, then you’ll definitely want to consider getting a negative space tattoo. These designs make the subject matter stand out in a very different and noticeable way. These are the types of tattoos that people get when they want something different and they want them to turn some heads. On this page we will take a look at exactly what negative space tattoos are and some of the most popular design options.

The key to all negative space tattoos is to use your natural skin color for the lightest parts of your design, often the subject of the piece. For example, you could get a group of trees in your design and have the outline of an animal made, with the animal being the color of your skin. The colored parts of the design aren’t insignificant, but the attention is meant to be on the negative space in the design.

What’s really interesting about negative space tattoos is that you would think that the eye would be drawn to the darker parts of the image, but in reality our brains are programmed to see the image inside. Even in extremely large negative space designs, you the eye will go right to those lighter parts of the image and we will process those parts first. This is most definitely helped by the shading process done on these designs, which is why an experienced artist should always do this type of tat.

Some people think that there is actually ink in those “blank” areas of negative space tattoos, but that wouldn’t be as attractive and is one of the reasons why these designs are so popular. It doesn’t necessarily make the tattoos cheap by any means, but they would be more expensive (and probably less appealing) if those blank spaces were filled with ink. Many people do assume that there is ink those blank areas, which is pretty cool if you think about.