Prison Tattoo Photo #19153

Common motifs include barbed wire, dates, clocks, and simple iconography. This guide covers style, placement, and practical design choices for barbed wire.

Using only black ink at different dilutions, this style achieves a photographic quality with rich shadows and soft highlights. Black and grey work is versatile enough for portraits, nature scenes, and symbolic imagery.

The wrist offers a compact area that suits fine-line work, small symbols, and script. Its visibility means the tattoo becomes part of daily life, always in the wearer's line of sight.