An example of the texture found in Thomas Hooper’s geometric mandala tattoo designs. Tattoo artists who try to copy Hooper’s tattoo masterpieces often neglect to ad this kind of detail, because it takes hours and hours of careful tattooing to create the spots and lines that make up the textures in Thomas Hooper tattoo. This technique is called dot work, dotwork or pointillism. The tattoo artist uses thousands of tiny tattoo dots to build up texture in the tattoo design. The closer together the dots are, the darker the shade will be in that area. Parts of the tattoo which have more room between the shading dots will appear to have a lighter shade. Another artist who uses this dotwork technique is Gregorio Marangoni. Take a look at Thomas Hooper’s Sacred Geometry Tattoos for more info about Thomas Hooper and to see more pictures of his artistic tattoo designs.
