I'm just praying I don't insult anyone or get flamed for this -

I love tattoos, yet I find it visually disturbing when a character's tattoos contain white in them - for the plain reason that white is a color that cannot be tattooed onto flesh. Does anyone else feel this way?

Don't get me wrong - I am in no way knocking anybody's textures - just wondering out loud, so to speak. Peace!

I say the same thing in one of my tutorials :) I guess to anyone who doesn't have, or doesn't see tattoo's, this wouldn't be common knowledge. But it does indeed look very fake. But hey, don't listen to me, I only have 7 of my own s

I don't know.. i have a friend who has a tat who also uses body paint to paint in white in certain areas of his tat because it looks better to him. While it may be fake in a real tat. At least one guy i know wants white to be there. When i am doing realistic tats I make sure there is no white but when i am going for a body paint look i use white. Just depends on if you are being Realistic or not S Storm

I have seen white tatoos...I don't really like them but they do exist.

Body painting and tattooing are two very different things. The option to use any colour that exists with body painting is a fabulous one, but the two really can't be put in the same league. If only we could have metallics in tatooing like body painting does, I'd be covered from head to foot LOL And yeah Bia, apparently there is a new way to add white in tattoo design. Something along the lines of new revolutionary inks. You can also get better yellows too. I read something about this not long back. It's something which isn't being done much here in Australia. Guess we'll follow the trend eventually. I think it's a case of not seeing white in tattoo's makes the newer ones which have it (and it's not a pure white either..still has skin tones) still seem fake.

yes, it has to do with pigment concentration. When I got my first tattoo, I wanted to have white ink in my design (which is multicolored)but, while I designed the tattoo, the one who tatooed me advised against it saying that the white inks were not as fade resistant as other colors...since then they have gotten better, but now that I have seen white in tattoos, I am glad I didn't add it in.

first tattoo How many have you got? Nice to see another inked body around the place :)

I have a tattoo of an eagle, and the artist used a very pale blue for the eagle's head. It worked quite well.

Xena...I only have two smile and waiting for a third... :)

Ummmm I have a few, and mine had white in them to begin with. They have now faded and are more skin toned in the white areas, but they were white, once upon a time :p~~

I know several inkers, and my SO's have tats as well (I am still designing my first one) and white has gotten much better. It does fade faster than black of course but it is possible. Also available si a new !safe! version of luminous ink and two varieties that are only visible under UV (black) light. So it's getting wierd here in NYC in the fetish scene :) As for the poser tat's that are images ... I consider them fantasy tattoo's - more a artist concept than meant to be literally real.

I have a few.. and even had white added into one of them.. for effect... and it's held up as well as the rest of the tatt.. which means of course that it's faded a bit.. and as most of my tatts are blackwork... the white was an accent 8 ) but as a texture? does it really mattre? White ink doesn't usually last and fades rapidly.. and is also a bit more expensive than the other inks... but people do indeed pay the extra so there ye go... Cheers

I have a tribal style i designed that does have white on certain areas. i've had it for about three years and the colors have held up well. yes the white was used mainly for hi lites in the eye that i have on it... and i'm sorry bout having so much white on the tattoo of the wolves in my pic it was a first tattoo experience with poser and was more worried about trying to get the seams right on that part of the arm. Of course that was before i found deep paint 3d... now it's cake... :)

I have only one tat but I got it 26 years ago when girls with Tatoos were looked at as some kind of freak. Good girls just didn't do it. Ear piercing was still considered ethnic. Happily, It is still beautiful after all these years-- no stretch marks or wrinkles and only ever so slightly faded.

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If we ARE talking about getting tattoos or body painting (or badges onto clothes) on Poser models, rather than on real people, it is done via the texture map. And you will run into snags where the mapping onto the texture map is distorted. For example, it is impossible to get a shoulder badge onto a standard Poser figure with the arms split between the chest and the back. That is why my figure models are texture-mappe with each arm separate and split along the underside only, and that is how I can give men shouder badges in my Sea Patrol pictures (see this link).

I've got several tattoos with white in them. Years later ... the white is still white. Extremely so, at least on my bracelet, and that one is over 5 years old. The large design on my hip is almost 11 years old now, had white in it, and still does. What one artist told me about the white is that the skin tone has a lot to do with how white looks and takes. I think what bothers me more about "Poser" tats is that most of the ones I've seen are Black Black Black. They all look like the body has been oiled up to get the skin more translucent over the ink before posing, and while white may fade, so does black. Generally, it's more of a deep deep charcoal after healing.

I agree on the black color. For photorealistic tattoos for poser figures, the "black" should be an ultra dark greenish-grey, with slightly blurred edges. Even tattoos that never see the sun blur with healing, no matter how clean the work is or how well the tattoo is cared for.

Japan, Samuri tattoo uses white. I saw a Doc. on the tattoo and they went to a skin museum in Japan. It was on a number of years ago, but I will try to dig up the name of the show. Large back sized Oni 's and such. ( But I do agree it did look a bit strange, or mahap I' m just not used to seeing white in a tattoo.) ___I' ll dig +++Deberus

Check the tattoo magazines at most book stores for ideas. Anyone done any poser branding? Thinking photoshop with the right blur or filter might produce one.

You have all certainly educated me - I must get out more often. G Too sheltered I am....or rather, I just haven't seen enough tattoos in my day. I have none myself - would love some, but have a very conservative husband. And I can't wait for the day that I will observe first-hand (real world) some white ink in a tattoo - unless someone wants to post a pic of theirs?? :)