Sometimes a cartoon style dog tattoo designs are also featured. In these images, the nature of the designs are exaggerated and common human attributes are included. One of the popular design in this category is goofy image with shinning, large eyes, long tongue and pricked ears. This image can also be turned into more aggressive and is quite popular. When the tattoo artist intents to make an image that have the combination of human and animal, this image is preferred. The artist also shows muscular upper body, and bent legs that are dressed in blue jeans, boots. Sometimes, the images also show that the dog is wielding weapon.

Elegant style dog tattoos have recently caught the fancy of many people. Starting from simple outlines to vibrant color combinations the choice is just endless. For brilliant color dog tattoos you can go for Chinese Fu dogs. Fu dogs are a particular breed of dog that match to China's guardian lions. To get a picture perfect image you can ask your tattoo artist to follow the look of chow chow( a kind of dog considered to be the best model for guardian model), pug and pekingese and create either a male or female with ferocious expression, streaming mane and large eyes. The colors used for this kind of images are bold and solid ones. Yellow, blue, red and often green are used. If you like, you can add variations by using various natural colors of the breed that you prefer. You can also use natural hues with red flame flash or thunder lightening blue as the background.