The Hummingbird tattoo is striking in its sophistication. The image of a bird of paradise is a popular solution among fans of body painting, especially among girls.
The frozen flap of miniature wings immortalized on the body looks beautiful and non-trivial. In comparison with other images of the “birds” group, elegant sketches with hummingbirds are in higher demand.
A Hummingbird tattoo can look both realistic and absolutely fabulous. Multicolored drawings are more often applied, but monochrome tattoos are also common. Men prefer plain, concise images, and women like bright and delicate pictures.
Tattoo sizes range from the tiniest to the average. But large drawings are rare. Sometimes a hummingbird complements an extensive tattoo composition.
The appearance of the tattoo is fascinating. Thin, elongated beak, looking straight or pointing upwards, raised wings, lowered tail. Every detail matters here. After all, the general mood of the picture depends on it, which you can no longer do.
In order for the Hummingbird tattoo to fully meet expectations, it is important to think through the sketch carefully and in advance. The master will be able to offer ready-made ideas that can be supplemented with something or even modified. Unique sketches are made to order, then the tattoo will be really special.
Hummingbird tattoo classification into styles and colors
The color palette is diverse and depends on personal preferences and the chosen technique. Men, for example, more often apply monochrome tattoos with hummingbirds and much less often stop at colorful sketches.
Hummingbird tattoo in the style of Abstraction
Abstraction suggests not to limit the tattoo of a Hummingbird within the image of a small colorful bird, but to contribute to the exuberant fantasy of making a tattoo extraordinary and attracting everyone’s attention. You are guaranteed gazes, trying to comprehend what you have seen and find a secret meaning in the image. Some images at a glance can tell about the character of its owner, his preferences and personal views on the world.
It is difficult to determine the general connection between them and highlight individual key points in the design, since all such Hummingbird tattoos in the style of Abstraction are essentially a work of art.
Hummingbird tattoo in Watercolor style
The girls’ favorite watercolor style perfectly conveys tenderness, weightlessness, the excited fluttering of the wings of a small bird. These are colorful tattoos that look original and attract the enthusiastic glances of others.
Sketches in the Watercolor style often contain some fabulous elements. Perfectly combined with geometric details, cosmic motifs, patterns, lace.
A popular option is a Hummingbird tattoo on a background of splashed paint. The emotional fantasy image seemed to be transferred from a paper sheet to the skin.
The color palette is limitless. The most common colors are purple, light blue, blue, turquoise, green, orange, fuchsia, emerald, pink, yellow. Monochrome or even black watercolor pictures are less common.
Hummingbird Tattoo in the Blackwork style
In the case of the hummingbird, Blackwork makes an exception for the total or widespread use of only black paint in the design of the drawing. He recommends leaving the wings, sometimes the tail of the bird for different colors, and painting the head and body in the traditional bleak black.
Hummingbird Tattoo in Geometry style
Geometry style is a fashionable solution. As a rule, the image of a bird slightly resembles an origami paper craft. The color palette depends on personal taste preferences.
Hummingbird Tattoo in the style of Graphics
Graphic sketches are filled with unique elements. A hummingbird can consist of colors, patterns. These are multifaceted and complex drawings in execution.
In this case, the emphasis is on detail, rather than on the color scheme. Therefore, the most popular monochrome images of birds in the style of Graphics.
Hummingbird Tattoo in the style of a Linwork
The key point of the Linework style in images for Hummingbird tattoos is the concentration of work on contour lines. There is no background darkening in tattoos around a bird, but a shadow may be present on the object itself. The shadow inside the drawing should not block the visibility of the contours. It is barely noticeable, transparent, applied with rapid sweeping movements.
Hummingbird Tattoo in the style of Minimalism
Like Picasso’s famous “The dove of peace“, hummingbirds are depicted as figuratively similar to themselves with a minimum amount of detail. Usually, the design is formed from continuous lines passing from the wing to the tail, etc. The less paint, the better.
A hummingbird in the Neotradishnl style
Bright colored tattoos with a hummingbird in the Neotradishnl style resemble a neon sign. The effect of glowing paints is visually achieved by highlighting the background of the bird in the background. For this purpose, the color applicable in the design of the bird is used, coming in all directions from the center of the tattoo.
Old-school Hummingbird Tattoo
Old-school tattoos with hummingbirds combine rather large and rough lines. The bird looks less refined, but bright and saturated. The basic shades inherent in the Old School style are used.
Hummingbird in Oriental style
A rare style for a Hummingbird tattoo. Asian design variants combine the bird with various traditional Oriental symbols, objects and artistic techniques. In the Japanese versions, the hummingbird fits perfectly into the black and green color of the sleeve with floral decor.
Hummingbird in the style of Ornamental
By its nature, the hummingbird is a peace-loving bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers. Thanks to this, is ideally suited to the role of a symbol of beauty and harmony for Ornamental tattoos. It is depicted both against the background of a mandala, consisting of patterns, and the image of a mandala is placed inside, on the body of a bird.
A Polynesian-style hummingbird
In Polynesia, there are many ways to depict a nimble little bird, but they are all made exclusively in black and using patterns characteristic of the style. Patterns are a combination of lines, stripes with triangles, semicircles, dots, etc.
Hummingbird Tattoo in the style of Realism
Realistic images look different. It can be quite saturated in color tattoos, as well as restrained, combining several harmonious shades.
Monochrome tattoos made in the style of Realism create aesthetic intrigue. On the one hand, the picture seems uncomplicated. But on the other hand, the external simplicity and lack of variegation allow you to focus on every detail of the image.
Hummingbird Tattoo in Sketch style
A Hummingbird tattoo in the Sketch style is an elegant minimalism. The picture is not completely colored, a hatching effect is created. As a rule, soft shades are used. More often, the picture is left gray, and sometimes individual elements of the drawing are highlighted in color. The multicolored tattoos are dominated by a muted gradient.
A Steampunk Hummingbird
Black or color tattoo – it does not matter if it is Steampunk style, and the main character of the tattoo is a hummingbird. In the drawings, it is a mechanism consisting of metal parts, gears and tubes. Most often, the bird is made the central object of design, without additional compositions and decorations in the background.
Hummingbird Tattoo in the Tribal style
The Tribal technique in drawings with a bird of paradise is rare. Usually black images in this style are chosen by the stronger sex. The tattoo looks brutal, consists of simple large elements.
Compositions with other elements
Floral and floral motifs are always relevant. Hummingbird tattoos are often applied surrounded by flowers.
The most common sketch is a hummingbird drinking nectar from a flower. They usually prefer to apply lotuses, lilies, peonies, orchids, sakura.
You can find images with fabulous colors. Less often, the bird is supplemented with a rose. A watercolor image with mountain lavender looks very beautiful.
There are paired tattoos when hummingbirds are placed next to each other or, for example, symmetrically applied on both arms and legs.
A picture framed in a thin circle or triangle is a minimalistic solution that looks stylish and neat.
There are sketches with notes, treble clef, inscriptions, hearts, pens, and Mandalay.
Popular application places
A Hummingbird tattoo is always a small or medium drawing, large sketches are not in demand. Therefore, images are often applied to movable areas (hands, feet, shin).
A tattoo on the neck or behind the ear looks interesting. Men prefer to place a medium-sized picture on the side of the neck. Girls for this area often choose mini-tattoos with hummingbirds, which are convenient to cover with hair.
Hands are a commonplace of application. The drawing can be located on the wrists, forearm, shoulder.
Tattoos fit well on the collarbones or ribs. They look neat on the shoulder blade and chest. Rather large tattoos located along the spine from above are less common.
Often images are applied to the hip side and ankle. In general, the leg, like the arm, is a popular area for tattooing Hummingbirds.
The abdomen, side, and lower back are rarely chosen as the application area. In addition, a small drawing may get lost here.
The wizard will always tell you the optimal zone. Will advise on the location of the future tattoo. It is impossible to hurry in this matter in order to avoid at least accidental results.
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