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  2. Flash (tattoo) - Wikipedia

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    Tattoo flash was designed for rapid tattooing and used in "street shops"—tattoo shops handling a large volume of standardized tattoos for walk-in customers. [1]: 111 Pieces of flash are traditionally drawn or printed on paper, and displayed for walk-in customers in binders or on the walls of tattoo shops. In the 21st century they may also be ...

  3. Lettering - Wikipedia

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    Lettering is an act or result of artfully drawing letters, instead of writing them simply. Lettering is considered an art form, where each letter in a phrase or quote acts as an illustration . Each letter is created with attention to detail and has a unique role within a composition . [ 1 ]

  4. Ben Day process - Wikipedia

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    The technique has been widely used in color comic books, especially in the mid 20th century, to inexpensively create shading and secondary colors. [5] [6] [7] The process differs from the halftone dots, which can vary continuously in size to produce gradations of shading or color, and are commonly produced from photographs. Ben Day dots are of ...

  5. Hyperrealism (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Hyperreal paintings and sculptures further create a tangible solidity and physical presence through subtle lighting and shading effects. Shapes, forms and areas closest to the forefront of the image visually appear beyond the frontal plane of the canvas; and in the case of sculptures, details have more clarity than in nature. [29]

  6. American traditional - Wikipedia

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    Old school tattoo designs on tattoo artist Amund Dietzel. American traditional, Western traditional or simply traditional [1]: 18 is a tattoo style featuring bold black outlines and a limited color palette, with common motifs influenced by sailor tattoos. [2]

  7. Tattoo - Wikipedia

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    The tattoo art was a sacred marker of identity among the Māori and also referred to as a vehicle for storing one's tapu, or spiritual being, in the afterlife. [98] One practice was after death to preserve the skin-covered skull known as Toi moko or mokomokai. In the period of early contact between Māori and Europeans these heads were traded ...

  8. Alan Bartram (design writer) - Wikipedia

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    Bartram studied painting and typography and became a graphic designer, working for Lund Humphries and IBM. [2] He researched the history of British vernacular design and lettering, publishing books on traditional British tombstones, shop and street name lettering as well as on book typography.

  9. Lettering guide - Wikipedia

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    2.5 to 7 millimetres (0.1 to 0.3 in) lettering guides for technical drawings Lettering pens for lettering guide template. A lettering guide template is a special type of template used to write uniform characters. It consists of a sheet of plastic or other material with cut-outs of letters, numbers, and other shapes used especially for creating ...