I'm not very experienced with this and I was hoping some of you could enlighten me.
Nowadays a lot of VERY good artists seem to be doing mostly realistic, detailed and intricate tattoos that look amazing fresh and healed. But will they look good 10, 20, 30 years down the road? (I know all tattoos fade and move even traditional ones, but they still seem to look very good after many years).
I assume these kind of tattoos will last and won't look like shit after 20 years otherwise all these top name artists wouldn't be doing them, right?
Are they fine as long as you have black shading nearby?
What kind of contrast is needed?
Sorry for asking a lot of questions, I was just hoping to get some knowledge of this, because I'm not going to lie I have an interest in color realism, but if it will just start looking bad way before traditional I'll stick with traditional.
Examples:
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xft1/t51.2885-15/s320x320/e35/12256834_407023586160509_2120070254_n.jpg
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfp1/t51.2885-15/s320x320/e35/11881584_1658872354360822_635008893_n.jpg
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/12729563_1516644975308002_922744417_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTE4NTM5NTAyMzQ1Nzk2ODY3Mg%3D%3D.2
Not bashing anyone here just merely curious
Thank you