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  TLDR - Neo-traditional tattooing is the evolutionary successor to American traditional, maintaining bold outlines and clear composition while extending the color palette significantly and adding dimensional shading within color...

  TLDR - Japanese traditional tattooing (irezumi) is defined by specific compositional rules, a distinctive subject vocabulary including koi, dragons, tigers, chrysanthemums, and peonies, and the relationship between figure and...

  TLDR - American traditional tattooing, also called old school tattooing, is defined by bold black outlines, flat saturated color fills, a limited primary and secondary color palette, and iconic...