Black & grey drawing of koi tattoo art
Black koi art drawing
Black and grey traditional Japanese art drawing of a koi fish with a unique background of waves and shell-like circles.
Black & grey drawing of koi tattoo art
Traditional Japanese art koi fish tattoos look so good in black, grey, and white. This drawing has bold shading along the edges of the fins and the end of the tail. The scales have more detail to them with an extra line through the middle of each one and gradually increase in size from tail to head. The face and whiskers have an ancient look to them too.
The background is unusual because the carp is threaded through shaded holes with the waves curling above them and other circles are placed within each other and are all shaded in different ways. They could symbolize the swirls in an ocean, shells, or bubbles and little details could be added depending on what you want them to mean.
